Chocolate Nice Cream

5 from 7 votes

Chocolate Nice Cream is made with simple wholesome ingredients. It's creamy and sweet without cream or added sugar! It's a healthy and nutritious way to enjoy everyone's favorite sweet treat that takes 5 minutes to prepare and only 4 ingredients. Vegan, dairy free, and gluten-free.

Prep Time5

Cook Time1

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Diet: Gluten Free, Vegan, Vegetarian

Servings:

Calories: 128kcal

Author: Alison Corey

Ingredients

4 bananas ripened and frozen
¼ cup cacao powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract or almond extract
¼ cup unsweetened almond milk or other dairy free milk (optional)

Instructions

Chop 4 frozen bananas into chunks. If you haven't frozen your bananas overnight, cut and place banana slices onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, and freeze for 1 hour.
Add frozen banana chunks, cacao powder, vanilla extract, and almond milk to a food processor. Blend until well combined. You may need to stop the food processor and scrape the sides with a spatula and continue blending to help the bananas blend well.
Enjoy right away for a soft-serve texture (pictured above), or transfer to a loaf pan lined with parchment paper, and freeze for 1 hour for an ice cream texture.

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Notes

Note: The total time to complete this recipe if your bananas are not yet frozen and you want an ice cream texture is 2 hours and 5 minutes. You'll need 1 hour to freeze the bananas, and 1 hour to freeze the blended mixture for an ice cream texture.

Tips for Making Chocolate Nice Cream

The calorie count is for chocolate nice cream without any toppings or mix-ins.
I like to use bananas that are starting to brown for a sweeter flavor.
Peel the bananas prior to freezing them.
For a firmer texture freeze an additional hour, otherwise, you can enjoy your nice cream right away.
When I make nice cream I prefer using my food processor. It does a nice job of breaking down the bananas into pieces and combining the chocolate evenly.
If you don't have a food processor but you have a good blender, it should still do the trick.
Freeze the nice cream for 1-2 hours for an ice cream texture.
Enjoy immediately for a soft-serve texture.

Toppings and Mix-Ins

Chocolate Covered Cherry-¼ cup fresh pitted cherries.
Chocolate Strawberry-¼ cup fresh hulled strawberries chopped into chunks.
Chocolate Raspberry-¼ cup fresh raspberries.
Banana Nut Fudge-2 tablespoon chopped pecans and 2 tablespoon chocolate chips.
Chocolate Mocha-¼ cup espresso.
Maple Walnut-1 tablespoon maple syrup and 2 tablespoon chopped walnuts.

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