Two-Fruit Ice Cream
Two-Fruit Ice Cream
If you’ve never blended frozen bananas into instant, creamy, dreamy ice cream, you’re in for a surprise! It’s amazing. Here we’re adding pineapple or strawberries too, for extra tang and flavor. Include the nut butter if you crave a little extra richness.
kitchen gear
- Cutting board
- Dinner knife
- Measuring cup
- Plate
- Food processer (adult needed)
- Wooden spoon
Ingredients
- 1 cup pineapple chunks or sliced strawberries
- 3 ripe bananas, sliced
- 1⁄4 cup peanut or almond butter (optional)
Instructions
- Put the fruit in a single layer on a plate and freeze until just solid, around 2 hours. (It’s actually easiest to remove the frozen fruit if you freeze it on a fexible plastic plate or large plastic lid: bend it, and the fruit will pop off .)
- Put the pineapple or strawberry chunks in the food processor and pulse until they start to form small pieces.
- Add the bananas and, if you are using it, the nut butter. At first the bananas will want to spin around and stay icy, but keep at it, stopping the machine and using the wooden spoon to loosen the mixture if it stops moving. At some point, it will suddenly go creamy and custardy, like soft-serve ice cream.
- Serve right away, or store in the freezer in a lidded container.
Notes
Add any or all of the following:
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon or nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon lime zest
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon or nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon lime zest