Chocolate-Mint Ice Cream

Name: Chocolate-Mint Ice Cream
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 3 ripe bananas; 5 fresh mint leaves; a bit of rice milk or water ((to help the blender; you don’t need any if your blender can take care of frozen bananas)); 2 Tbsp cacao nibs; 1/2 tsp spirulina powder ((optional – adds more “green” to the color)); 1 tsp maple syrup ((optional – only if you want an extra sweet ice cream)); fresh berries for toppping

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Laine Rudolfa in Desserts, Raw Food Recipes

Serves

Level

Easy

Ingredients

Ingreds.

Total

10mins

Serves

Level

Easy

Ingredients

Ingreds.

Total

10mins

Oh, ice cream. There are some of us (like me) who loves to enjoy it on both the hottest summer and the coldest winter days. And I can’t tell you enough how nothing can beat a homemade vegan ice cream. If you’ve been looking for a quick and easy way how to make your own vegan ice cream, then I have the perfect recipe just for you.

Ingredients

3 ripe bananas
5 fresh mint leaves
a bit of rice milk or water (to help the blender; you don’t need any if your blender can take care of frozen bananas)
2 Tbsp cacao nibs
1/2 tsp spirulina powder (optional – adds more “green” to the color)
1 tsp maple syrup (optional – only if you want an extra sweet ice cream)
fresh berries for toppping

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Directions

Prep

10 mins

Total

10 mins

One evening before making the ice cream, freeze the bananas. Roughly chop them into smaller pieces (will be easier to blend them) and put in a plastic box or small bag, then place in the freezer. Perfectly they should stay there overnight, but 5 or 6 hours are good to go as well.
10 minutes before making the ice cream, remove bananas from the freezer.
Place them in a food processor, add mint leaves, spirulina powder and blend until smooth and creamy. If your blender struggles with it like mine sometimes does, add rice milk or water little by little until you get a creamy texture. But remember – the more water or rice milk you’ll add, the less creamy and more liquid the ice cream will be.
When the ice cream mixture is ready, mix in cacao nibs or chocolate.
Serve with fresh berries on the top.