If you’re on a diet or you’re just trying to eat healthy, this one-ingredient banana ice cream is for you!!! It’s sweet, creamy, 100% natural, super tasty and you only need 1 ingredient to make it: frozen bananas, that’s all!
You also need a powerful food processor or a blender. I’ve made this ice cream using my Vitamix blender and my new Cuisinart food processor and both work, but the ice cream is creamier when I use the food processor.
Add your favorite toppings (chopped fruits, nuts, seeds, dates, maple syrup or whatever you can imagine) and enjoy the healthier ice cream you can eat. Seriously, you really need to give this recipe a try!
Feel free to add other frozen fruits besides the frozen bananas to get other flavors, berries and mangoes are my favorite. If the fruit is ripe, the ice cream will be so sweet, but you can add dates or any other natural sweeter like maple or date syrup if you want.
Cut the bananas into 3 or 4 pieces (or cut them into coins if your blender or food processor is not very powerful), put them in an airtight container and freeze overnight. If your blender/food processor can’t blend the frozen bananas, add some plant milk (coconut milk and nut milks are awesome to make ice cream) or some non frozen bananas (I’d use 3 frozen and 3 non frozen bananas).
Blend the bananas until you have a super creamy banana ice cream. Be patient, keep blending and you’ll get it!
I’m in love with my new food processor, it’s expensive, I know, but it’s an investment in my health and it will last forever. A food processor is an essential tool for some healthy recipes, especially to make raw desserts.
You can eat the ice cream immediately, but it will be super soft, so I prefer to transfer it to an airtight container and freeze for at least 1 hour or until solid. If it’s too hard, let stand at room temperature for at least 10 minutes or until it has the perfect consistency.
This ice cream is really healthy, so you can eat it every single day, yay! If you make this one-ingredient banana ice cream, please leave a comment or tag a picture #simpleveganblog on Instagram (or any other social network).
Banana Ice Cream
- Prep: 15 mins
- Total: 15 mins
- 2-3 1x
- Dessert, Snack
- Vegan, American
- Vegan
Servings 2-3 1x
This one-ingredient banana ice cream is sweet, creamy, 100% natural, super tasty and you only need one ingredient to make it: frozen bananas, that’s all!
Ingredients
- 3 large ripe bananas
Instructions
- Cut the bananas into 3 or 4 pieces (or cut them into coins if your food processor or blender is not very powerful), put them in an airtight container and freeze overnight.
- Add the bananas to your food processor or blender and blend until you have a super creamy banana ice cream. Be patient, keep blending!
- If your food processor or blender can’t blend the frozen bananas, add a splash of any plant milk (coconut milk, cashew milk, and almond milk are awesome to make vegan ice cream).
- When it’s ready, you can eat the ice cream immediately, but it will be pretty soft. I prefer to transfer it to an airtight container and freeze for at least 1 hour or until solid. If it’s too hard, let stand at room temperature for at least 10 minutes or until it has the perfect consistency.
- Serve with your favorite toppings or keep in the freezer for up to 3 months.
Notes
- Feel free to add other ingredients to your banana ice cream, like vanilla extract, peanut butter, cocoa powder, carob powder, other frozen fruits (berries are amazing), peppermint extract, chocolate chips, coconut butter, ore pretty much anything you would normally use to make ice cream.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/3 of the recipe
- Calories: 121
- Sugar: 16.6 g
- Sodium: 1 mg
- Fat: 0.5 g
- Saturated Fat: 0.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 31.1 g
- Fiber: 3.5 g
- Protein: 1.5 g
thank you for the cool recipe. i have a question, can i make this ice cream one night before i eat it?i don’t want it to change the taste of the banana
Hi Hadeel! You’re so welcome 🙂 I’m not sure… I think it’s best freshly made… And it melts really quickly.
Do you know the total volume this recipe yields? i.e. 4 cups or 6 cups etc?
Hi Ali! I’m so sorry, but I don’t know… Have a nice day!
I’ve made it numerous times before coming across this recipe. It’s amazing. I normally add some raw cocoa powder to it and a little almond milk. It definitely tastes like a chocolate frosty from Wendys!
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Hi Ash! Sounds so goog 🙂 Yes, this recipe is awesome!
This recipe looks so yummy and super easy I will definitely making this before the week end 🙂
Hi Amaback! Hope you liked it 🙂
love this recipe.It looks so yummy.Thanks for the sharing.
Hi Miller! So glad you liked it 🙂
i love mango ice cream much, don’t know about banana’s flavour but after seeing your recipe and comments surely i arrnage it for me and than know how i feel 🙂
Hi Sara! Hope you like it 😉
I loved this recipe. I will definitely try it. Thanks for sharing the ingredients to make the banana ice cream.
Hi Martin! You’re so welcome 🙂 Have a nice day!
Love this! Also great if you add a scoop of almond butter or peanut butter
Hi Nicole!T Thank you 🙂 Sounds amazing, I love almond and peanut butter!
You’ve got one of the greatest sites.|
Thanks a lot!
This recipe looks so yummy and super easy I will definitely making this before the week end 🙂 x
Hi Nash! I hope you enjoy the ice cream 😀
Hi Iosune,
Love your blog and the icecream (I have made it only in Vitamix,and it works really well).I have also bought recently a Cuisinart and it’s great.I have only one problem:the lid is not proprely cleaning (it remains pieces of nuts for example inside the lid).Do you have the same problem?
Hi Patricia! Thanks a lot 😀 Sometimes it can be hard to clean the lid, but I use a small butter knife to clean it. Have a nice day!
Love this recipe, posted it onto the local Boston Weight Watchers group and several people are giving it a try. Thanks for this!
Hi Nuala! Great!! I’m happy to help 😀 Thanks a lot for sharing the recipe 😉
This can also be made in a food processor.
I used a food processor to make this recipe 🙂
It’s worth the expensive even if you only make banana ice cream in it! Cause let’s face it- you’re going to make it Every. Single. Day. !!!!!
Hahaha,I’m in love with this ice cream, it’s super healthy and tastes sooooo good! 😀