Friday, November 20, 2015

Banana Ice Cream

Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth but this has been the busiest semester of my life!! My current stress level is somewhere between the time I got lost in the middle of rural Holland in a field on my bike in the pitch-dark and the time I thought an ax murderer was hiding outside my window... except the stress I'm living right now has lasted months instead of mere hours. But only two short weeks until I'm done (!!) so I'm holding on for dear life until then.

If you would like something simple and utterly delicious to satisfy a classic mid-study session craving (what, I'm sure I'm not the only one) without indulging too much I have the perfect snack for you! You're going to go BANANAS for this "ice cream" because it is completely vegan, gluten-free and as you might have guessed it's made of just bananas. Also, for those that don't love the taste of bananas don't fret because freezing the bananas makes them taste less banana-y.

Very appeeling, am I right??

Everybody and their brother has probably made this before but there's a small chance that a few of you haven't, so here is the recipe! I basically live off this stuff in the summer time and I think it's about time I share my secret obsession with banana ice cream.

Also if you don't have a good food processor they are the number one thing sold at garage sales, church basement rummage sales, and on kijiji, so drop what you're doing and go get a $5 food processor.

One Ingredient Ice Cream

Ingredients
- 2 Bananas

Directions
✿ Slice the bananas and place on a parchment lined plate or pan.

✿ Freeze for at least 5 hours.

✿ Blend the banana mixture in a food processor. At first it will look crumbly but just keep blending away as the ice cream magically starts to look like soft serve ice cream.

✿ You can add some milk of your choosing if it is hard to blend together but try to keep at it without milk to get that optimal ice cream texture. 
It should be thick enough to do the Dairy Queen blizzard flip test, so if you flip it upside down and it runs everywhere then I hope you have some napkins near by...

✿ Enjoy COPIOUS amounts of this stuff because it's more addicting than crack cocaine but it is literally just bananas, so just a few less side effects.

Use the pictures below as a guide because I clearly wasn't born to write recipe directions.







You know what's also fun?? Toppings and add-ins!

Here are a couple options to change up your regular banana ice cream:

1) Cocoa powder! Add 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder to your banana mixture for chocolate ice cream.
2) Mango gelato! Add 1/3 cup frozen mangoes to your two bananas and blend away.
3) Vanilla! Add a teaspoon of vanilla to your banana mixture for yummy vanilla soft serve.
4) Choco-peanut butter! Yes, you can probably guess by now... just add a tablespoon of peanut butter to your chocolate banana ice cream.
5) There are millions of other options that I won't take time to name here, but basically just throw some sprinkles, fruit, nuts, yada yada yada onto your banana ice cream and you'll be thanking me forever and always.
6) You can even go cray cray and make a banana ice cream layer cake with raw vegan cookie dough and your coworkers with strict diets will cry. True story.



Happy exams!