If there is one thing I really miss on this vegan diet, it’s ice-cream. It’s warming up here in Australia and summertime to me means long, lazy days at the beach with my hubby and kids, enjoying ice-cream by the water. But being new to eating vegan (I only converted just under 3 months ago), I was on the lookout for some tasty ice-cream recipes I could make for myself that were easy – 1. because I have very little time I need it to be fast and yummy, 2. because I don’t own an ice-cream machine, and 3. because I really, really, really want ice-cream!
Being that I am also off sugar and processed foods and I realised that finding a recipe that actually tasted like traditional, creamy, sweet ice-cream was going to be a challenge.
However, one of my beautiful friends, Alicia, posted a link to 29 vegan ice-creams just a few days ago and my spine tingled with excitement. I knew out of 29 recipes there had to be at least 1 that I could eat and enjoy…… and I found it! The recipe originally comes from another blog, The Simple Veganista, but I tweaked it slightly to use up ingredients in my pantry because I didn’t have time to go to the shops. So here is what I came up with.
Ingredients
4 frozen bananas
1/2 cup almond butter (or whatever nut butter you have available)
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
1/4 cup tahini
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp raw honey
1 cup macadamias (or your favourite nut)
Slice your frozen bananas and throw them in the food processor with the nut butter, maple syrup, tahini, cinnamon and vanilla. Turn on your processor and while it is running drizzle in the raw honey for it to mix through.
Pour the ice-cream into a freezer safe container (I used an old ice-cream bucket I had in the cupboard) and stir through your macadamias.
You can eat it as is, which is like a soft ice-cream, or pop it in the freezer for a few hours and wait for it harden up. The texture will be just like store-bought ice-cream, and believe me – it is worth the wait!
This should make up roughly 1 litre of ice-cream which supposedly serves 4, but I’ll leave that up to you to decide 😉
I’m sorry I don’t have more photos. I will make this again soon enough and will be sure to take some more so you can be even more tempted to make it. For now, check out the link above the recipe, she is a pro at adding photos before she eats the lot, unlike me.
I hope you love it!!
xx
Healthy, Happy and Well 
That looks delicious!! Do you know of any similar ice creams that don’t use banana as an ingredient?
If you google “29 vegan icecreams” you ought to find the list that this one originally came from. The top half of them didn’t use banana at all 😉
Thank you! And love your blog 🙂
My pleasure, and thanks so much x
Lisa, just made the ice cream.. It is setting in the freezer… can’t wait!
Oh fantastic! 🙂
Made and tried it .. OMG delicious!! It is a little sweet though I might not bother with honey next time or less of maple syrup. Thanks for sharing this
Oh fantastic! Thanks for leaving a comment and yes, sweetness is always a very personal thing which is so easily adjusted. I’ve always had a sweet tooth so I find I’m usually adding more, ha ha 🙂 xx