I feel kind of dumb right now. I spent five or so minutes looking, and it appears I never actually posted the pictures of the banana ice cream back when Heather and I first tried making it.
Let me bring you up to speed on the situation:
- Heather basically will not eat refined sugar
- I like desserts
- I would like to share said deserts with Heather
Because of point one, I spent a lot of time looking around for something I could make. I have had some success with making peanut butter balls. That recipe involved Splenda, and at some point Heather soured on the idea of eating fake sugar too. About that time I read that you could run a frozen banana through a blender / food processor and get an ice cream like result. We tried it shortly thereafter, and the results were a huge hit!
I learned a few things such as, peeling the bananas beforehand is important! I nearly removed my thumb peeling a frozen banana with one of our wonderfully sharp knives. We were in Atlantic at the time, and cleaning the blender without a dishwasher was a huge pain.
jumping back to ‘now’, and we have a food-processor that was given to us for Christmas. What I have discovered is that making this dish in a food processor is about twenty times easier. With a blender I was having to scrape the sides of the dish repeatedly to get all the banana blended. The food processor doesn’t seem to need as much attention. It also doesn’t hurt that we have a dishwasher, so cleanup is more or less “free”.
All of that to introduce the how-to video! Enjoy! 🙂
-Jordan
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