So remember when I said all I wanted to do in this hot weather was sit around eating salads and ice cream?
Forget the part about the salad. And double up on the ice cream to make up for it. In this particular peanut butter and banana soft serve, the banana gives the recipe its ice-cream-like texture and the peanut butter gives a richness that really does make this recipe taste like actual ice cream. Or, if you omit the peanut butter, you’ll still have a delicious sherbet-like dessert.
Peanut Butter Banana Soft Serve
(No added sugar)
- 4 medium bananas, peeled and chopped into pieces (the riper, the better)
- 3-5 tbsp peanut butter (or other nut butter or sunbutter)
- optional: pinch salt
Freeze the chopped bananas in a Ziploc-type bag. Later, combine all ingredients in a Vita-Mix or food processor or blender. If you use a food processor or blender, you’ll probably have to add a little liquid to get everything to blend. You might also have to thaw the frozen bananas if your freezer is super-powerful. For authentic presentation, use an ice cream scoop to serve! (If you scoop it all into a container and freeze about 10-15 minutes, the texture will also become a bit firmer like ice cream, as opposed to soft serve.)
For more ideas, be sure to check out the following: 30 Healthy Ice Cream Recipes.
Lori,
If you ever make anything that turns out really well, send me a photo and I’ll feature you! 🙂
What a happy Mother’s Day!
I always add spinach to my homemade ice cream…I love the green color!
Okay I have to say that peanut butter ice cream looks mighty tasty considering that is my favorite flavor of ice cream next to pistacio but the wierdest flavor of ice cream that i have heard of is cotton candy. It is one of my least favorite things that was created
I can’t wait to break out the ice cream maker!! As for shitty ice cream flavors, the least fave I’ve tried is probably the Mint Chip So Delicious Coconut. Not that I don’t like it, but it’s too damn minty. Last time I bought it, the carton sat in my freezer until it got freezer burnt.
Garlic ice cream flavor, and I’ve had it. I thought it was quite tasty, however I was at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in CA in the middle of summer. It was so hot out, I could probably have eaten frozen boogers and thought it tasted good. 😛
I personally do not like ice cream with chunks of fruit in it. Yuck. If I wanted fruit bits, I’d eat a piece of fruit.
I forgot to mention that I’ve also had purple taro ice cream in China. Very good.
Umm, I’ll take a bowl of that ice cream. A giant bowl. Now. I don’t care that’s it pouring with rain. Peanut butter ice cream = awesome.
You should see this one gelato place here in Vancouver – they have 218 flavours on site. Some are very different – wasabi, beer, strawberries and champagne, garlic. Some are normal – chocolate, vanilla, etc. Some are exotic – mango, durian, lychee. And some are just freakin awesome – baileys & coconut, hedgehog. Here’s their website: http://www.lacasagelato.com/
I’ve never personally encountered a bad ice cream flavor but I’ve certainly heard of them. The place was attempting dinner flavors..steak & onions, wine, cheese…
hmph. :/
You’re PB and banana ice cream could kick any of those flavor’s booties!!
I can’t even fathom making my own ice cream, I am oh so impressed!
I just wanted to tell you that you are awesome! That is all.
I just went to a local popsicle place the other day (called LocoPops) that serves some pretty wacky flavors. I got the “banana-bee pollen” flavor, and Seth got the Mango Chile. Crazy!
Oooh, I would definitely try black pepper gelato! I like black pepper maybe a little too much. I’ve never tried a weird or bad flavor of ice cream myself, but I have heard that there is a place in San Francisco that makes foie gras ice cream, which not only sounds gross, it is so horribly wrong.
Yum! That’s making me drool! : ) Gotta get a Vitamix, though I could make something similar with my juicer and blender…
If you can’t afford a vitamix, get a NINJA.
I make ice cream in my Ninja all the time.
I made the PB ice cream easily. Just freeze peeled (never EVER unpeeled, it’s awful to peel a frozen banana!) chunks of banana. Add to Ninja when frozen solid, do your PB, splash of non-dairy milk so it processes well and blend.
The Ninja can handle ice, hard frozen fruit, etc.
And it’s only about $40 at Target! I love this dang thing. I use it at least 3x a day. I use the blender pitcher to do my morning smoothie, the small processor to blend my oats and make banana ice cream at night. It also makes lovely sorbet with frozen fruit and a bit of milk/water and stevia. YUM. LOVE IT.
I agree, Melissa! I, too, have a Ninja and I love it. You can get the whole big same kit they sell on TV/online at Costco now for $100. I have not seen it anywhere for $40. At our Target, it is $160 for the system. However, this is still a fraction of the cost of a Vitamix. I have had my Ninja for a year, and I use 1-3 times a day, every day, mostly for protein shakes and fruit smoothies.
Where I grew up there is a beautiful pink building that houses a Gelatoria that has over 200 hundred flavors (www.lacasagelato.com) all the time and are famous for their strange ones like Gorgonzola,Danelion, or Curried Corn. My favorite was always Bailey’s Irish Creme or the champagne sorbetto. This recipe is delightful – I like to add in a splash of oconut milk for that something extra in creamy flavour!
Had two frozen bananas in the freezer (as I always cut up and freeze bananas when they start to brown), so I made “half a batch” in the food processor. Only had to add about a TBSP of almond milk, and it was perfect. Just like PB Banana soft-serve. Another winner, Katie.