#easy vegan icecream

I thought I’d miss ice cream when I went vegan. But I didn’t, which surprised me at the time, but maybe that says something about dairy not being necessary for noms.

This base uses bananas. Just bananas. You can add whatever you want to it though.

Method

Chop up bananas - if you use older bananas the flavour will be stronger.

Freeze them

Put the pieces in a blender. Blend till smooth.

Serve.

Different flavours

Chocolate - Add some cocoa and vanilla essence.

Nuts - Add some nuts. Cashew nuts and pistachio nuts are good. Depending on how you want the texture, add at the start or finish.

Coconut - Add some coconut cream or melted coconut oil (I won’t be doing this myself until I can find a source that isn’t linked to animal cruelty. Don’t add too much or it’ll go runny.

Vanilla - Add a little non dairy milk and some vanilla essence.

Berries - Nom.

Caramel - Blend up some dates soaked in water to make a thick caramel flavoured sauce, and stir it through, or just add it to the blender with the bananas.

Storing

If you want to store the ice cream in the freezer, but aware that it melts faster than dairy ice cream, but reacts in much the same way - let it melt and freeze it again, it goes like ice. So put it in the freezer quickly. You can just blend it again though for the same result.