Chocolate Banana Ice Cream

Quick and easy chocolate banana ice cream recipe, made with 2 ingredients with many flavor options. Vegan and paleo.

This is perfect for Summer days when you want to cool down. It's rich, smooth, and absolutely delicious. Another great thing about this recipe is that you can make it without an ice cream machine. Instead, you use a food processor or blender. This recipe comes from my Mom who started making it when she was trying to get me and my siblings to eat more fruit. If you want to add more bananas to your diet as well, check out all these Easy Ripe Banana Recipes.

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• Key ingredients
• Variations
• How to make homemade chocolate banana ice cream?
• Tips and techniques
• Recipe FAQs
• Storage
• More frozen dessert recipes
• Recipe

Key ingredients

• Bananas- Be sure they are ripe, not green.
• Cocoa powder- The higher the quality, the better tasting the dessert.

Variations

• Add chocolate chips- Stir in 3 tablespoon mini chocolate chips.
• Try white chocolate- Stir in ¼ cup white chocolate chips.
• Make into tasty bites- Spoon the mixture into mini muffin pans that have been generously sprayed with oil and then freeze for at least 1 hour. Then, use a butter knife to pop them out and enjoy.
• Popsicle/ice cream bar option- Spoon the mixture into popsicle molds and freeze for 1 hour or until mixture hardens. They will be similar to this Chocolate Banana Popsicles Recipe.
• Add peanut butter- Add 1 tablespoon creamy peanut butter into the mixture. My friends love it.
• Mint chocolate version- Add ½ teaspoon mint extract and stir in 2-3 tablespoon mint chocolate chips. If you love mint chocolate flavor as much as I do, you will also want to try this recipe for Chocolate Mint Truffles (5 Ingredients).
• Make a smoothie- Just thin out this mixture with about ½ cup milk, similar to this Chocolate Banana Smoothie.
• Sweeten it up- With a little honey or maple syrup.

How to make homemade chocolate banana ice cream?

1. Add frozen bananas and cocoa powder- To a blender and mix until smooth.
2. Serve- In cones or cups and enjoy.

Tips and techniques

• Consistency won't be perfect at first- In fact, it may look odd and crumbly in the beginning. Don't worry. Just keep blending and eventually you will have a soft-serve consistency.
• Use a high quality blender or food processor- In order to create the smoothest texture possible. I have noticed with cheaper blenders I need to add a little milk to get things going.
• Allow container to sit out- For 10-15 minutes at room temperature after removing from the freezer to allow cream to soften a little to be able to scoop it out.
• Use ripe bananas- Because they are naturally so much sweeter.
• Do an ice cream bar- Put out lots of toppings like sprinkles, nuts, chopped candies and cookies for people to make their own customized cones.

Recipe FAQs

Storage

• Make ahead- Make up to 3 days in advance and keep in a sealed container in the freezer.
• Room temperature- This cannot stay out long, because it will obviously melt.
• Refrigerate- Although it will stay cold in the fridge, it will not keep the harder consistency and become more like watered-down smoothie.
• Freeze- You can place this in a sealed container for up to 1 month. Enjoy right out of the freezer.

More frozen dessert recipes

• Watermelon Ice Cream
• Homemade Fruit Popsicles
• Frozen Chocolate Covered Bananas
• Frozen Yogurt Bark
• Easy Ice Cream Sandwiches (Cake Mix)

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Until next time, tata my lovelies!