Recipe Remix

I've got a recipe remix of sorts for you all today. A while back I shared a recipe for an amazing summer treat on Elycia's blog. It's an ice cream type dessert made from bananas, peanut butter and chocolate - so needless to say it's heavenly! But this year I've been making it more and more and experimenting with the recipe. I'm excited to share this treat that I've been making and we've been eating obsessively for the last few weeks. Here is the original recipe.

Banana, Peanut Butter & Chocolate Vegan Ice Cream!

2 bananas (of average size)

4 tablespoons cocoa powder

4 generous tablespoons peanut butter

5 tablespoons sugar
6 tablespoons soy milk

Put all ingredients in the blender and mix until they become a smoothie like texture. Pour into a plastic container with lid and place in freezer. Check on and stir hourly until it becomes the perfect texture, which is completely at your discretion. 

You can drink it like a milkshake after about 2 hours, devour it like ice cream after 5 or 6 hours or just slurp it straight out of the blender. (My blender slightly warms whatever I put in it and that is mighty tasty too!!)

The recipe also makes the perfect popscicles! I recently picked up a popsicle mold and we've been eating them like they're going out of style. Kevin swears he's never had a tastier fudgesicle and I feel the same way. They're the perfect consistency when used in the popsicle mold. When left in a plastic container the ice cream tends to get really hard after it's frozen so you have to wait for it to thaw before snacking. When placed in the popsicle mold it's solid but bite-able (if that's how you choose to eat popsicles, I prefer to lick them.)

As well as eating the ice cream in different forms I've been experimenting with the flavor. I've discovered that using yellow bananas leave the ice cream tasting more banana flavored as opposed to using spotty bananas where you're easily able to cover the banana flavor making it easier to experiment with other flavors. Adding a teaspoon of coconut extract is absolutely divine, and has become our personal favorite. I've got plans to try mint and root beer too! The possibilities are endless!!

If you'd like to make more than the original recipe does (it really doesn't make much at all) you don't even have to double the recipe. I normally just add extra bananas one at a time and then add the other ingredients a little at a time to taste. I rarely ever add any extra soy milk, you don't want it to be too thin of a mixture.

Enjoy!
xoxo