Making your own vegan ice cream is easier than you think! No need for fancy ice cream makers… a blender is a sufficient device for whipping up this simple, healthy, and tasty treat!
Jef and I like to buy the discounted bananas at the co-op when we can, because they are perfect for making ice cream and smoothies. These bananas have a lot of brown spots on them, so they are at ample sweetness (and antioxidant levels are their highest). We bring them home, chop them up, and put them in tupperware for freezer time.
The ingredients that you will need for this dish are:
- Frozen bananas (sliced)
- Soy milk
- Raw cacao powder
- Hemp protein powder
- Agave nectar
Now for ice cream time! Put a bunch of frozen banana slices in the blender with a wee-bit of soy milk. We have found that gradually adding the bananas to the soy milk is gentler on the blender, and makes the process easier. Once the consistency is nice and thick (seriously guys and gals… THICK!!!) you can add in raw cacao powder, hemp protein powder, and a touch of agave nectar to make this extra delicious. Activate BLENDIFICATION!
Once blended, you can eat this straight away, OR… you can return it to the freezer for a couple of hours (in a tupperware container), remove, and reblend just enough for a consistent consistency that is freezy, creamy, and you know… like ice cream! YUM!
For funsies, go a little crazy! Add peanut butter (nomnomnomnom!) or fresh mint or… whatever else your heart desires! Once you get the consistency down, play it up with different flavors. Here are some secret flavors that we are thinking about: lavender-lemon, pistachio, peach-ginger, matcha-vanilla bean, blood (keep it vegan for the children’s sake), and fire!
Hooray for ice cream!
Oh dear. I fear I must make this immediately. It’s broiling hot outside, there’s chocolate involved and I have a pile of bananas begging me to use them creatively.
DO IT! But make sure you freeze those bananas first… the more frozen… the better! : )
Can we all just take a moment and soak up the fact that this is HEALTHY?! Whoa.
Mmmmm I love me some banana ice cream- your secret flavours sound amazing. I want me some peach ginger ice cream ASAP!
I love the look of this, we are experimenting with vegan ice cream at the minute and its a real wonder. We just need a little sun now to enjoy it in the garden and we’ll be well set. Loev your blog….Happy days, lee
We can’t wait to see your experiments! : )
Avocados have been mentioned……
Ooh la la!
Love, that is!!!
I want to make GUN flavor!! I can’t wait!!! I imagine this can also be done with almond milk and carob!
Super neat recipe guys!
Oooh guns and blood ice cream, perhaps??? Yeah almond milk, carob, whatever your big heart desires, really. Recipes are made for changin’!!
Woooooow! Yours definitely looks so much better! :-p
Hey Guys, We love what you do and felt you deserve an award! The ‘Thought Provoking’ blog award (http://thebeachhousekitchen.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/the-beach-house-kitchen-voted-for-a-thought-provoking-blog-award/). We hope it brings many new good folk to your lovely blog. Pass it on if you like. Happy days, lee and janex
Hey thanks a lot, we are supremely flattered : )
Buh-lood?
The real scoop on the hemp: really necessary? I must have some mutant allele that makes hemp smell and taste putrid and heave-ish. Look, I just answered my own question! Not necessary!
After watching the first few episodes of Portlandia, “cacao” makes us giggle like 7th-graders.
Nothing is necessary that is unnecessary to your taste buds! We did it mostly to make it more nutritious ( = makes us feel like we are doing a good deed by eating ice cream), and it does add a nice texture, but we have made it before without it, so do it to it! Ahh… yes…. CACAO!
Sorry, I meant to say that An Unrefined Vegan sent me over here with her Facebook post.
Pingback: Lemon + Berries + Take Two = Sorta Sorbet | the veg bar
It’s too bad my blender is so loud and everyone in my house is sleeping! Otherwise I would be making that RIGHT now. Serious yummers!
You should wake them up. They won’t hate you if you share your ice cream!!
I made it anyway and I DID wake up my husband, and I did share. He didn’t complain too much!
Nice! : )