Frozen Bananas + Nuts + Chocolate...

I knew one could make some kind of quick banana ice cream using frozen bananas so when I had a few sad looking bananas in my fridge the other day I threw them into the freezer and forgot about them. Unfortunately (or fortunately for me once I tasted the ice cream) we have an upside down fridge freezer and the little person who lives with us can open the freezer. So this morning he proudly presented me with one of said frozen bananas and proudly proclaimed "mamama" (little person speak for 'banana'). Realising I wasn't going to get away with returning it surreptitiously to the freezer, I pulled out my A Taste of Vegetarian cookbook,  found the Instant Banana Ice Cream recipe and quickly set about recreating it!

The recipe called for four bananas, 80g roasted salted macadamias and 80g of carob or choc bits. I had one solitary banana so adjusted the recipe accordingly, raided the pantry and fridge, and came up with the following:

1 frozen banana (chopped)
20g roasted salted peanuts
20g of 70% dark chocolate

Mill nuts for 5 seconds on speed 8

Add chocolate and mill for a further 5 seconds on speed 8

 It should resemble finely chopped nuts and chocolate!

Add bananas and process for about 30 seconds on speed 8.

Mine needed scraping down a few times as I quartered the recipe and it flew straight to the sides of the TM bowl, but with the full recipe it should be fine.

Behold! Instant banana choc nut ice cream. Mmmmmm!

By this stage, my little person had forgotten all about the 'mamama', so I popped the bowl in the freezer for later. When later arrived, a very happy mummy, fed it to (and shared it with) a very happy little person.

For a super healthy version, try this Chocolate Banana Nut Ice Cream

Yum!