Vanilla Nice Cream

After the first try, this vanilla nice cream recipe will become your favorite frozen dessert. This banana base vegan nice cream is made from only 3 ingredients, and it tastes delicious and easy to make.

This banana vanilla ice cream can be used as a basic recipe and add a variety of addons to make a new flavor. The possibilities are endless. I have been making fruit popsicles and needed all fruit ice cream alternatives too. Then I saw an all-fruit ice cream at the Sinful kitchen website, so I decided to try that. I was surprised to find out how easy and simple it is to make it! All you need is three ingredients, a blender, and a few hours of freezing time.

More about this Nice Cream Recipe

•             There is no churn needed for the recipe and it’s ready in 5 minutes, if you prefer soft serve ice cream. For scoopable texture, then freeze for a couple of hours.

•             I f you want ice cream with no added sugar or sweeteners, then this it. All you need is frozen bananas, milk and extracts.

•             Any one allergic to dairy ice cream or have any diet restrictions can still enjoy this nice cream.

•            Your Kids will love them and they are loaded with nutrients. Even picky eaters will like it.

•             The Easiest and quickest ice cream to make with only 3 ingredients.

•             It can be made into a variety of nice cream recipes.

What is Nice Cream?

Nice cream is a plant or fruit-based ice cream. It is made from frozen fruit, plant milk, and vanilla extract blended into a smooth texture. Even though this forms the basis of the recipe you can mix and match the type of fruit combination used for your nice cream recipes. You can also add other toppings to create something unique.

What is vanilla Nice Cream?

It is a vanilla vegan ice cream made with frozen bananas, almond or coconut milk, and extract. Then blended into a smooth texture like soft-serve ice cream. I like to use coconut milk for my banana nice cream, but you can also use any nut milk you like.

What is Vanilla Nice Cream made of?

The ingredient that makes this nice cream recipe vegan is frozen banana. This is the secret ingredients and it provides a structure for the healthy nice cream. It makes the ice cream creamy and sweet with no added sugar. The other ingredients are plant milk which can be either cashew milk, almond milk, soy milk, coconut milk, or a combination of them. Pure extract or vanilla bean paste is added for flavor to the nice cream recipe.

How to Make Ice Cream with Bananas

As I said earlier, this easy vegan vanilla ice cream recipe uses only 3 ingredients and I’m sure you have them in your kitchen already.

The first step is peeling and cutting your bananas and putting them in the freezer overnight. If you have any frozen bananas in your freezer as I do, then that will work too. If the frozen bananas are whole, then cut them into pieces for easy and fast blending.

Next, put your frozen bananas into a food processor or blender and add the milk and vanilla extract. Blend until smooth and there are no pieces of bananas left in it. I used a food processor for this recipe as you can see in the photo, but a blender will work too. If you are into more fruit blending or smoothies, I recommend Vitamix blender. This is a high-powered blender for all your heavy blending needs.

Pour the ice cream into a freezer-safe container and put it in the freezer for about 3 hours to firm up. You can use a mini baking loaf or homemade ice cream container for freezing it.

 When ready to serve your vanilla banana nice cream, scoop with a scoop into a bowl or cone. Add your favorite toppings and enjoy.

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Nice Cream Toppings Ideas

1.            Crushed nuts like pistachios, almonds, peanuts, etc.

2.            Sliced fresh fruits like strawberries, mangos

3.            Vegan chocolate chips

4.            Pieces of coconuts

5.            Date peanut caramel sauce

How to Make Vanilla Nice Cream without Bananas

If you are not into bananas, no problem you can still make these without bananas. All you need is frozen fruit like strawberries or any other fruit you prefer, coconut milk, and vanilla extract. Coconut milk is the secret ingredient in this recipe for a creamier texture. For a tropical version, use pineapples cut into chunks, freeze and blend with cream of coconut or coconut milk and extract until smooth. Then freeze for about 3 hours before serving

Tips for Making It

•             For quick freezing, then cut fruits into small pieces/ chunks when freezing. You can spread the bananas onto a tray for fast freezing. The best way to freeze is leave them overnight in the freezer.

•             I like to scrape down the side of the blender or food processor a couple of times when blending. You may not need to do this with high powdered blenders.

•            Use just enough milk to get soft-serve ice consistency and texture, that is what you looking for. Then, you can serve immediately or freeze for later.

Variation to This Nice Cream flavor

1.            Almond nice cream: you can make almond nice cream from the base recipe by using almond milk and almond extract. Then add crushed almonds to the nice cream before freezing.

2.            You can add a vegan chocolate chip to the nice cream mixture before freezing for the chocolate chip version.

3.            Other fresh fruits can be blended with bananas to create a different taste.

4.            Strawberry nice cream is made with bananas and strawberries blended.

5.            Chocolate nice cream: add ¼ cup of natural unsweetened cocoa powder to the bananas.

6.            Cookies and cream nice cream is my favorite among the flavors. All you need is to add about 8- 10 crushed cookies to the banana nice cream.

How to Make Nice Cream Thick and Creamy

If you want to thicken your nice cream, then use frozen bananas or fruits. You can also add coconut cream and nut butter for thick nice cream.

Storage

Nice cream will keep well in an airtight and freezer-safe container for 3 months in the freezer.

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Thanks for reading. As always, know that God loves you, and stay blessed!

Happy baking!!

Linda.