
Vegan chocolate banana ice cream
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Easy
- Serves 1
A low-fat chocolate ice cream? It really does exist! Our blitzed banana creation is gluten and dairy-free and ready in minutes
- Dairy-free
- Egg-free
- Gluten-free
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
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Fruit & seed yogurt
A calcium-rich snack with crunchy seeds and warming cinnamon to keep you going until lunchtime
- 1 frozen banana
- 1 tsp cocoa powder
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal110
- fat1glow
- saturates0g
- carbs23g
- sugars21g
- fibre2g
- protein2g
- salt0g
Method
step 1
In a blender, blitz the frozen banana with the cocoa powder until smooth. Eat straight away.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2016
Comments, questions and tips (10)
Overall rating
steviebetts0289331
It was pretty quick to make, tasty too! But I found it a bit bitter, maybe it was the cocoa powder I had but need sweetening slighty!
rudy.lynesrnL-ruZc
This recipe is really impressive, it really shocked me just how similar it was to ice-cream. Despite this, I feel it needed some tips towards ensuring you get the perfect outcome.
1. Freeze the bananas with the skin off. 2. Cut the bananas into smaller chunks before putting into the blender. 3.…
rx5cmppnbjUWYRevFe
This tasted amazing- I added a teaspoon of peanut butter too.
My issue is it was too runny despite the bananas being fully frozen. I blended using my nutri-bullet and it was the consistency of a very thick milkshake. Any tips how to get it thicker?

goodfoodteam
Hi, thanks for your question. The texture sounds about right - it's a similar texture to a very soft scoop ice cream/Mr Whippy style ice cream. You can return it to the freezer for half an hour or so afterwards if you'd like it a bit firmer. We hope this helps. Best wishes, BBC Good Food Team.
Colinjanice1
Hi can you make with fresh bananas then freeze

goodfoodteam
Hi, thanks for your question. If you use fresh bananas, and then freeze, you'll get a hard icy lump. By blending frozen bananas you'll get a lovely creamy, smooth texture. You can speed up freezing bananas by chopping them into small chunks first - they will freeze fairly quickly this way. Best…
wpsychs
This is great - as a B&Js addict, I will happily eat this instead in future. My blender wasn't strong enough for it so I used my food processor.