This Chocolate Nice Cream is so indulgent you would never know it's healthy. This banana ice cream only requires 4 main ingredients and it's completely dairy free and vegan.
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Why you will love this recipe
- Chocolaty, Thick, and Creamy Treat: This perfectly satisfying sweet, creamy, and delicious Chocolate Nice Cream hits that sweet tooth spot. With rich chocolate flavors from the cocoa power and the natural sweetness from the bananas, it’s thick and creamy like ice cream.
- Whole Ingredients: This chocolate nice cream recipe everyone will enjoy grabbing a scoop or two of. This recipe only has four ingredients that are whole plant-based ingredients. The cocoa powder gives the chocolate taste, while the frozen bananas give the sweet and creaminess, and the oat milk and nut butter brings the consistency to perfection.
- Incredibly Easy to Make: It’s a homemade chocolate banana nice cream recipe that takes less than five minutes from start to finish, which includes a simple clean-up. Best of all it’s gluten-free, vegan, and dairy-free and you’d never know it.
Other cold vegan recipes you will love:
- Mango Nice Cream
- Raspberry Nice Cream
- Chocolate Strawberry Smoothie
- Peach Mango Smoothie
- Apple Strawberry Smoothie
Ingredients
Be sure to take a look at the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and quantities to make this Chocolate Nice Cream.
- Frozen Banana: Be sure to chop the bananas before freezing them to make blending easier.
- Non-Dairy Milk: I like oat or cashew milk best because of the neutral flavor.
- Peanut Butter: I like peanut butter but any nut butter you like best will work.
- Cocoa Powder: Make sure to use plain unsweetened cocoa powder, or carob powder if you like better.
Variations
- Double or Triple the Size: This Chocolate Nice Cream is only a single one-serving size. It never hurts to double or triple this recipe size. The nice cream is great to enjoy with family and friends; it’s a delicious, creamy, and thick nice cream.
- Coffee and Chocolate Craving: Sometimes you’ve got a craving for coffee and chocolate. You can easily add a small amount of espresso powder to this chocolate nice cream ingredients, that should satisfy your coffee and chocolate craving. (espresso powder should be dissolved in a reserved splash of the oat milk first for best tasting results).
- Toppings: If you’d like, you can add toppings to this chocolate nice cream with cocoa powder; it’ll definitely add some additional flavors. Some options include chocolate chips (vegan), nuts (chopped up), fruits, coconut flakes, even shredded coconut, and melted nut butter of your choice. Feel free to add on top whatever sounds tasty to you.
- Protein Powder: You can add protein to this chocolate nice cream banana if you’d like more protein in the mixture. Add up to a scoop of your favorite plant-based protein powder.
- Nut Butter: Feel free to add any nut butter or seed butter you’d like. A few good options are peanut butter, cashew, walnut, almond, or pecan butters.
How to make Chocolate Nice Cream
Step 1: Place the frozen banana and non-dairy milk into the blender and pulse until broken up, then blend until smooth.
Step 2: Next add the peanut butter and cocoa powder in, by adding it now it helps to mix in better and not just stick to the sides of the blender.
Cocoa powder being added.
Step 3: Blend until smooth and enjoy immediately.
Expert Tips
- Serve immediately: I recommend eating this Chocolate Nice Cream recipe immediately after you’ve made it, that’s when it’s at its best taste.
- Frosted Bowls: To keep this nice cream chocolate, chilled longer, chill the bowls in the freezer for about thirty to sixty minutes before preparing this recipe. (Make sure it’s freezer safe and not something that will crack or break)
- Thick or Thinner: I know I prefer my vegan chocolate nice cream very thick, and because this is homemade, you can adjust the thickness of this nice cream; it’s your choice! Easily customize the consistency of this treat. If it’s too thick, add a small amount of oat milk or water. If it’s too thin, add a piece of frozen banana and a piece of mango.
- Use Frozen Bananas: To help maintain this vegan chocolate nice cream recipe’s texture, cold, frosty, and thick, frozen bananas are an important ingredient for this non-dairy nice cream. About 12 hours prior, chop the bananas and freeze them. I always keep extra frozen bananas (stored in a freezer bag) in the freezer on hand, ready to grab when needed.
Recipe FAQs
Usually, yes, you’ll taste bananas in a nice cream to a certain degree, unless the recipe you make does not have frozen bananas in it. But primarily, frozen bananas are used in most nice cream recipes. It also depends on what other ingredients are in the recipe; if you’ve got other bolder tastes mixed in, it will lessen the taste of the banana.
Generally nice cream is made by blending milk or another liquid with frozen fruits, until it’s the consistency of ice cream, usually it’s a dairy free and vegan alternative to ice cream.
It's a dessert that's frozen and usually made with frozen banana and other frozen fruits in a blender or food processor.
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Chocolate Nice Cream
Equipment
- 1 High speed blender
Ingredients
- 3 frozen banana
- 1 tablespoon peanut butter (or other nut butter/optional)
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- ⅓ cup non-dairy milk (I like oat and cashew milk best)
Toppings:
- extra nut butter
- cacao or carob nibs
Instructions
- Place the frozen banana and non-dairy milk into the blender and pulse until broken up, then blend until smooth.
- Next add the peanut butter and cocoa powder in, by adding it now it helps to mix in better and not just stick to the sides of the blender.
- Blend until smooth and enjoy immediately.
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