All the Best Banana Nice Cream Recipes (2024)

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Looking for an easy vegan ice cream recipe to make at home? I’d like to introduce you to Banana Nice Cream, a yummy healthy ice cream made with a frozen banana base and other add-ins!

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If you’re anything like us, you LOVE ice cream. If I had a choice between all desserts, I’d almost always choose ICE CREAM. I know, ice cream is loaded with sugar and lots of time fat, but don’t you worry…we have a healthy ice cream solution for you and it’s called –> banana nice cream!

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What is Banana Nice Cream?

Banana nice cream is a frozen dessert made with a frozen banana base. If you have frozen bananas and a little bit of milk (or any kind of liquid), then you can make banana nice cream!

Banana nice cream was first created as a homemade vegan ice cream recipe substitute, but even if you’re not vegan, you will still love it! The reason it’s called “nice cream” is because it mimics classic ice cream, but is better for you. It’s also sometimes called banana soft serve because if you eat it straight out of the food processor, it’s a similar consistency to soft serve.

Below we are sharing a super basic banana nice cream recipe that you can easily deviate from if you’d like to use additional frozen fruit or add-in your own flavor combinations!

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Basic Banana Nice Cream Recipe

Looking to make homemade vegan ice cream at home? Use this basic banana nice cream recipe to make a fruit-based ice cream that tastes just like the real deal, but is actually healthy!

Prep:15 minutes minutes

Cook:0 minutes minutes

Total:15 minutes minutes

Fat 1

Carbs 31

Protein 2

Yield: 2

Print Rate

Ingredients

  • 4 cups frozen banana slices ~2 large bananas
  • 2-4 tablespoons unsweetened almond milk any kind of milk will work

Instructions

  • Place frozen banana slices and 2 tablespoons unsweetened almond milk into a high-speed food processor or blender.

  • Blend on high for 1 to 2 minutes stopping to scrape the sides every so often.

  • If your blender is having a hard time blending the bananas, add more almond milk by the tablespoon.

  • Once pureed together, your banana nice cream should be like a super thick smoothie or soft serve. Option to eat immediately or to transfer to a parchment-lined bread pan to freeze for later.

  • Freeze banana nice cream for 1 to 2 hours so that it hardens enough to scoop like ice cream, but isn't too hard where you can't scoop it.

Tips & Notes

  • Option to double or triple this recipe.
  • Storage: Store in an air-tight glass container (covered) in the freezer. Thaw for around 30 minutes before scooping and serving.

Nutrition facts

Calories: 123kcal Carbohydrates: 31g Protein: 2g Fat: 1g Fiber: 4g Sugar: 17g

Author: Lee Funke

Similar recipes:

  • Chocolate Peppermint Banana Nice Cream

  • Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Banana Nice Cream

  • Cookie Dough Banana Nice Cream

  • Pumpkin Pie Banana Nice Cream

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Flavor Combination Ideas

Make this vegan ice cream your own with different flavor combinations! Start with our basic banana nice cream recipe and follow our suggested add-in/substitutions below!

  • Mint Chip – add 1/4 teaspoon mint extract and 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
  • Strawberries and Cream – substitute 1 cup frozen strawberries for 1 cup frozen bananas and use full-fat coconut milk instead of almond milk.
  • Chai Spice – add 1/2 teaspoon homemade chai spice

Looking for more unique flavor combinations? Here are some of our very best banana nice cream recipe from Fit Foodie Finds. Enjoy!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Banana Soft Serve

This Peanut Butter Banana Nice Cream recipe will make your dessert dreams come true! With only 4 ingredients, this nice cream is dairy-free, vegan and ready in under 10 minutes flat. Top with chocolate chips and serve immediately or freeze for later!

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Protein Strawberry Banana Nice Cream

Satisfy your sweet tooth by whipping up a batch of this Protein Strawberry Banana Nice Cream! All you have to do is throw all of the ingredients into the food processor and you’ve got yourself a protein-packed dessert in under 20 minutes!

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Healthy Chocolate Nice Cream

This 4-ingredient Healthy Chocolate Nice Cream boasts the same creamy deliciousness of traditional chocolate ice cream without all those fillers. Plus, it’s dairy free, vegan, and ready to eat in less than 10 minutes. Dessert is served!

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Blueberry Muffin Banana Soft Serve

Cool off this summer with this Vegan Blueberry Muffin Banana Soft-Serve. It is naturally sweetened, delicious, and made with only six ingredients!

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Peanut Butter Cup Banana Soft Serve

This peanut butter cup banana soft serve is a healthy way tosatisfy your ice cream craving. All you need ishomemade peanut butter cups and frozen bananas!

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Vegan Cookie Dough Banana Soft-Serve

Love cookie dough and ice cream but live a plant-based lifestyle? Try our Vegan Cookie Dough Banana Soft-Serve!

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Raspberry Chocolate Swirl Banana Soft Serve

There’s nothing better than a 5-minute, single-serve dessert that is both vegan and paleo friendly. Make this Raspberry Banana Soft Serve with Chocolate Swirl for a guilt-free treat!

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About Lee Funke

Lee is the founder of Fit Foodie Finds and based in Minneapolis, MN. She started this website in 2010 as a way to share her love for real food and wellness. The internet has changed so much since then and so has Fit Foodie Finds. Today we're a female-run recipe website publishing hundreds of tried and true recipes developed and tested by our team.

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Posted on 5/6/2023

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i loved the ideas

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Posted on 2/6/2023

Thank’s for your recipe ! I love it !

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Hello, have a good day

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Posted on 6/9/2022

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Damn! It’s looks so delicious and yummy recipe. Thanks for posting this out! Amazing post and a great read!

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i must admit , your blog very informative

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Thank’s for your recipe ! I love it !

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thanks for great sharing!

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Posted on 12/1/2021

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Just love it kindly try to some other combination also so that will be more amazing. good luck will be waiting for your next post

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Posted on 9/12/2021

easy to throw together and anything with peanut butter is a winner for me. I like the bitter edge of the brewers yeast so that didn’t bother me. However, I found my mixture too crumbly to hold together after carefully measuring everything. I didn’t want to add more honey to bind as I found the honey flavor already strong and didn’t want the added sugar so I added about 1/2 c more peanut butter. That did the trick. I’ve had luck with other milk boosting recipes that feature brewers yeast and flax so I am confident these will be a good treat to help with production

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Posted on 7/9/2021

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Wow amazing love the banana ice cream can you try strawberry ice cream also that will be more amazing

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Laurie Buginsky

Posted on 8/16/2020

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Just read this recipe sent from a cousin. So here’s the scoop on the Chocolate Banana Nice Cream. (1) The mixing would not even begin in my Vitamix until I added lots more almond milk. Added 1 Tbsp at a time as directed, and needed quite a few. (2) Way too much cocoa for my taste in the recipe. Needed a bit of sweetening. Perhaps lessening the cocoa will rectify both issues. (3) The finished product definitely needs freezing. FINAL OPINION: once changes were made it was really quite good. I will no doubt make this again (with much less cocoa) and also try some other flavors. Thanks for sharing all your recipes. Enjoying your blog.

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Dana

Posted on 8/5/2020

For a while I was making the chocolate EVERY night for my bedtime snack…I think I’m going to try the peanut butter cup next

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Dana

Posted on 8/5/2020

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Hummm…I was trying to give 5 stars but they wouldn’t stay filled in…

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Goodness there’s some jaw-dropping foodie photography here!!

Yeah…winter lasts a little too long here. Kind of glad I’m moving back to NE for that reason! And more sunlight there in the winter..who knew!!

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Posted on 5/28/2015

None of my bananas are ripe yet 🙁 have to wait another week until I can try one of these!!

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Lee Funke

Posted on 5/29/2015

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Do the paper bag trick! Throw them in a paper bag for a bit and they will brown right now!

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Taylor

Posted on 5/28/2015

I absolutely love banana soft serve and Minneapolis in the spring and summer time. Rides around lake calhoun are by far my favorite, and did you hear that Minneapolis was ranked second on the ACSM fit index!!
I’ll be heading back to Minneapolis in just a few weeks so if you ever have meet ups I would love to do that!! 🙂

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Lee Funke

Posted on 5/29/2015

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oh em geeeee! I didn’t know Minneapolis was ranked 2nd. That’s amazing! I thought about doing a meet up, but my fear is that no one would show up 😛

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Taylor

Posted on 5/29/2015

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You for sure would have at least one person in attendance, I would love to meet up!! 🙂

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Lee Funke

Posted on 5/29/2015

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Haha! Well let’s make it happen! Shoot me an email with the dates you’ll be in town —> fitfoodiefinds(at)gmail.com!

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Posted on 5/28/2015

What a great recipe roundup, Lee! I am pinning a bunch 😉

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Posted on 5/27/2015

Loveeee banana soft serve. I need several of these versions in my life ASAP!

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Lee Funke

Posted on 5/28/2015

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It’s the best dessert EVER.

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Posted on 5/27/2015

My boyfriend LOVES ice cream but recently went dairy-free, so I’m going to have to give some of these a try!

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Lee Funke

Posted on 5/28/2015

Reply to Dani @ DaniCaliforniaCooks

Oh no! I was severely lactose intolerant growing up, then I hit puberty and it fizzled away. Insert ICE CREAM IN MY lIFE NOW!

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That’s a great summer list. I hope you’ll share your sister’s wedding on the blog 🙂

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Lee Funke

Posted on 5/28/2015

Reply to Hillary | Nutrition Nut on the Run

Oh of course! It’s going to be SO MUCH FUN #openbar. And that’s the truth 😀

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FAQs

What is the best blender for making nice cream? ›

High-speed blenders (especially a Vitamix) with a tamper can make banana nice cream in 2-3 minutes, or depending on the motor power and skill, even 1 minute!

Does banana nice cream taste like banana? ›

Does nice cream taste like bananas? Yes and no. The main flavor of nice cream is banana, but depending on what other ingredients you add, the flavor can be quite different. For example, the chocolate nice cream has a strong cocoa flavor, while the strawberry nice cream tastes mostly like strawberries.

What is nice cream made of? ›

The term “nice cream” was originally coined to describe the soft serve–like confection made by blending chunks of frozen bananas, and the dense, sweet fruits remain the best for obtaining a custard-like consistency. 1) Freeze whole, peeled, ripe bananas until firm. The riper the bananas, the sweeter the nice cream.

How to make nice cream thicker? ›

How can you thicken nice cream? Nice cream right out of the blender or food processor tends to have a texture similar to soft-serve ice cream or custard. If you prefer a harder consistency like a scoop of traditional ice cream, put the mixture in the freezer for a couple of hours. This will create a firmer consistency.

Can I use blender instead of mixer for cream? ›

Definitely yes, just take it slow and easy and if you have a good blender it should be perfect. Just watch the speed setting. The one I have would whip heavy cream in seconds.

How to keep nice cream from freezing solid? ›

If the puree is softer than you'd like, freeze for 30 minutes to 1 hour, and stir. If you freeze the nice cream until solid, let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes to 1 hour to soften before serving. Nice Cream Variations: Chocolate nice cream: Add cocoa with the vanilla and milk and process.

Is nice cream healthy? ›

In her book Guilt-Free Nice Cream, author Margie Broadhead describes nice cream as a “healthy, banana-based alternative to ice cream, which happens to also be delicious and super easy and quick to make.” In Nice Cream: 30 Guilt Free Banana Ice Cream Desserts, author Dani Spies defines nice cream as “a low-calorie, low- ...

Why is my banana bitter? ›

It happens because of the conversion of. Starch to sugar.

What color banana is the sweetest? ›

Bright yellow bananas are at peak ripeness If the banana has some brown spots, it is still good to eat. This is also when bananas are at their sweetest. Once bananas are very soft and mostly brown, it is over-ripe.

Can you eat nice cream for breakfast? ›

Add in a little peanut butter or almond butter and you've got yourself a breakfast that you will look forward to eating! This vegan “ice cream” goes by the name 'nice cream' as it has a frozen banana base.

Can you make nice cream in advance? ›

Freeze for at least 2 hours and for up to a month. The ice cream will be easy to scoop on the first day, but after that, you may need to let it sit at room temperature for several minutes before you scoop it. It gets firmer after more time in the freezer.

Is a frozen banana healthy? ›

The only drawback to bananas is that they have a short life span, however, flash freezing bananas has been proven to retain all nutrients as well as keeping it fresh. Potassium, vitamin B6, vitamin C, magnesium, copper and manganese are crucial vitamins and minerals that bananas offer.

What blender is best for Nicecream? ›

Prepare Nicecream in a high-speed blender

While you can use the Vitamix TNC 5200 or the Vitamix E310 to make small amounts of ice cream starting at 400 ml, the Vitamix Pro 750, for example, requires 800 ml.

What to use frozen bananas for? ›

So remember, frozen bananas aren't just for banana bread, but banana pancakes. This is also perfect for grabbing to make a quick smoothie (avacodo smoothie recipe here). It doesn't get much simpler!

What is the best way to freeze bananas? ›

Remove the peels and cut them into coins or chunks. Arrange the banana pieces, uncovered, on a parchment-lined baking sheet in a single, even layer. (You can also line the sheet with a silicone mat.) Put the baking sheet on a level surface in the freezer until they're frozen, about three to four hours.

How to make nice cream in a Ninja blender? ›

In a Ninja® 56-ounce food-processing bowl fitted with the standard blade attachment, place all the frozen vanilla ice cubes. Add the remaining 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons of whole milk and vanilla extract. Using the crush function, process for 35 to 40 seconds.

Can you make cream with a blender? ›

Making whipped cream in a blender is one of the fastest and easiest methods, and can be made fresh just minutes before serving your dish. The following guide can help you understand how to make homemade whipped cream in a blender so you can add a creamy and delectable touch to your favorite dessert and drink recipes.

What is the best blender for creamy soup? ›

If you're looking for the best blender for making smoothies, shakes, frozen drinks, nut milk, or soups, you can't go wrong with Vitamix's E310 Explorian model. For a smaller personal blender with cups made to take on the go, we recommend the Nutribullet Pro 900 for its power and portability.

Is a food processor or blender better for whipping cream? ›

A food processor can handle all of your whipped cream ingredients simultaneously. The machine works so quickly and efficiently that there is no need to add the cream first in order to thicken it — as so many recipes require — before moving on to your sugar, extracts, and add-ins.

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