The BEST Strawberry + Banana 'Nice Cream'
Y'all. It is officially summer and it is H O T in Nashville. The heat is fine, but the stickiness makes it so so miserable. If you're outside for more than a couple minutes, you are d r i p p i n g.
So, naturally, I've been stuffing my face with rocky road ice cream to stay cool. Turns out, that's not the healthiest way to avoid feeling like you're on fire--so last week I improvised. I made a no-churn cake batter ice cream last summer and it was so GOOD, so I figured I would give 'nice cream' a try this year.
I posted a poll on my instagram story a couple weeks ago asking whether you guys wanted to see a traditional no-churn ice cream recipe or a fruit popsicle recipe and it was about 50/50, so I figured I would combine the two. If you're wondering wtf 'nice cream' is, it's a fruity frozen treat made in a food processor. It has more of a frozen icee/sherbet consistency, and I absolutely love that about it...it just feels like summer, ya know? Being someone who doesn't always love the healthier versions of junk food, I was very skeptical.
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P and I made this before we hosted a couple friends for Memorial Day weekend @ the lake but it was literally almost gone by the time they got to town. The type of nice cream we made tasted like a frozen strawberry + banana smoothie with some chocolate thrown in, but the best part is that you can change the fruits and add-ins and make it however you want!
NOW LET'S GET COOKING
INGREDIENTS:
6 bananas
1 package of fresh strawberries
1 cup almond milk
2 teaspoons of vanilla
1 Ghirardelli milk chocolate baking bar chopped up into small pieces
INSTRUCTIONS:
Cut the bananas into one inch chunks and slice the strawberries (you can use frozen or fresh strawberries--I used fresh strawberries, just wash 'em first).
Put the banana and strawberry pieces into a ziploc bag and throw them into the freezer for about 4-4 1/2 hours.
After the fruit is completely frozen, whip out a food processor and throw the bananas in first
(while processing everything, stop every 15 or so seconds to mix it all up with a spoon)when the bananas are chopped, add the milk and vanilla.
add the strawberries and then add half of the chocolate.
after the milk and vanilla, add almost all of the strawberries.
LASTLY, pour it all into a bread loaf pan (I used a 9" x 5") and place the remaining strawberries and chocolate chunks on top. Freeze for about 3-4 hours and then DIG IN!
And there you have it! The easiest no-churn ice cream possible. Let me know if you try this, I want to see what you guys think to mix in!!!
