My mom gave me a Yonanas machine for my birthday a number of years ago. I was a bit skeptical. I eat bananas, but I don’t like banana flavored anything, especially ice cream. Well, let me tell you what my friends, bananas can make one heck of a faux ice cream. And wait for it….it’s even healthy!
Mixing in a little peanut butter and cocoa powder is my favorite, but I’ve included several other flavor combinations for you to try. It’s the consistency of frozen yogurt, without any of the dairy. Awesome, huh? You really can have your ice cream and eat it too! I’ve been doing this for several years now and people are always asking for the recipe. I’ve even served it to kids and they had NO idea!
PRO TIP: This recipe works best with bananas that have ripened to the point where they have little black spots appearing. Bananas have various stages or ripeness and become sweeter as they progress, with a less pronounced banana flavor.
Watch the video below where I walk you through every step of the recipe. I love including videos with every post for those who are visual learners. You can see my entire collection of video recipes HERE.
Looks good. I’ll have to try it & figure out the calories.
As prepared by the recipe, if you make it 2 servings the calories are about 175 per serving, depending on the size of your bananas. It also has 4.5grams of fat (vs. 11g with Breyers), and 35 carbs (vs Breyers 19)
I have tried this faux banana ice cream with frozen peaches. It was delicious! I’m going to try your version next.
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Hmm.. any other flavor recommendation?
Is it nice if coffee flavor i wonder…
Those are the ones I’ve tried and liked best. It’s easy to experiment with your own flavor combinations.
Your avocado/tuna dish looks scrumptious & I’m sure will taste scrumptious. I see a lot of great looking recipes here, but this faux ice cream was horrible. Had to toss it. Just couldn’t eat another bite.
Really? That’s odd. I wonder if your banana wasn’t sweet enough.
It is really difficult to find good bznanas. In our area. I lime Delmonte best but, they’re not always available. The off brands have ZERO flavor. I Believe they,re GMO.
This is so amazingly good (and healthy too :D), thank you!
i did dates and it was so good!
Saw this on Pinterest, and oh my god it was amazing! My entire family thanks you!
That looks amazing!!! Can't wait to try it out!!!
Mmm… that sounds good! I wonder if my sad little blender could handle this.
I would want to try a pina colada tropical flavor combo…maybe coconut milk, pineapple and mango?
awesome idea! count me in for waiting for that recipe!!! thank you for that idea!