Chocolate Peanut Butter Nice Cream

This is how you make creamy chocolate peanut butter nice cream with bananas for an easy vegan dessert. You only need three simple ingredients (and maybe some dairy-free milk) to create this delightful flavor combination using frozen sliced bananas.

What is Nice Cream?

Nice cream is like ice cream but made without dairy.  It’s most commonly made with frozen bananas or frozen coconut milk.  This recipe uses sliced frozen bananas to create a creamy consistency.  To make this vegan ice cream extra special, here's a recipe for banana chocolate peanut butter ice cream, a classic combination. 

How to Make Nice Cream with Frozen Bananas

Use brown-spotted bananas, this is where the sweetness will come from.  The riper the banana, the sweeter it gets.  

Peel and slice the bananas into coins.  Slicing them into coins will limit the amount of work your blender or food processor has to do and reduces the need for adding milk.  Using smaller pieces also means the nice cream will blend into a creamy dessert quicker.

Freeze the sliced bananas on a silicone mat or parchment-lined baking tray that will fit in your freezer.  Freezing them separately like this will help prevent them from freezing in a big clump.  Once frozen, if you don’t plan on using them right away for your banana peanut butter chocolate ice cream, store them in a freezer-safe container. 

When you’re ready to make vegan ice cream, place the sliced bananas in the food processor or blender, then the cocoa powder and peanut butter.  Start by pulsing to break up the bananas, then blend until smooth.  Stop to scrape down the sides as needed to reincorporate the cocoa powder and peanut butter into the nice cream

Then, serve the chocolate peanut butter nice cream immediately for a soft serve consistency.  For scoop-able ice cream, store in an airtight container in the freezer for about 2 or more hours. 

How to Make Nice Cream in a Blender

If you have a high-speed blender (like a Vitamix), you might not need any liquid, use the blender’s tamper stick to help push the frozen bananas down to the bottom of the blender.  If you don’t have a high-speed blender, you can add dairy-free milk to the blender.  Another option is to let the sliced bananas thaw partly to get them soft enough to blend, but still frozen enough to have cold soft serve ice cream.

How to Make Nice Cream in a Food Processor

To use a food processor instead of a blender, the directions are the same as using a non-high-speed blender.  If your food processor needs some help pureeing, you can either add dairy-free milk to the blender or let them thaw partly for about 3-5 minutes to get them soft enough to blend (still frozen but just lightly softened). The banana pieces are small, so partly thawing doesn't take long.

Tips

• To make this just chocolate banana nice cream, leave out the peanut butter.
• To make this just peanut butter nice cream, leave out the cocoa powder.
• If the ice cream isn’t sweet enough, add maple or agave syrup to taste.
• If your peanut butter’s only ingredient is peanuts, then you might want to add a pinch of salt to the nice cream when pureeing. 
• The amount of milk you need depends on how powerful your blender or food processor is.
• I only tested with natural peanut butter, which only contains peanuts and salt. 

Storage

Store leftovers in an air-tight container in the freezer. If it’s too hard to scoop, let it sit on the counter for 5-10 minutes to soften.  If your banana nice cream sits in the freezer for a long time, it may solidify and become hard.  

More Vegan Nice Cream Recipes

• Banana Ice Cream
• Cherry Nice Cream
• Pineapple Nice Cream

As always, I hope you enjoy the recipe for banana nice cream with chocolate and peanut butter! I know my chickpeas sure enjoyed testing the recipe.

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