Healthy Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Banana Ice Cream

My homemade peanut butter chocolate chip banana ice cream recipe uses just one main ingredient and you don’t need an ice cream maker – just a food processor or a blender! Also, try my Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake with homemade Peanut Butter Frosting!

When you have too many overripe bananas, you can make fun things like caramelized banana bread or banana bread muffins, or banana nut muffins with crumb topping.

Yet when it’s HOT outside, you don’t want to turn on the oven to bake. You want to make COLD things like coconut cream popsicles, homemade vanilla ice cream, and homemade ice pops.

So what do you do when it’s hot outside AND you have too many ripe bananas? Make banana ice cream!

Add two more ingredients and you have banana chocolate chip peanut butter ice cream! You can feel guilt-free when you eat it because it’s super healthy!

Best Banana Ice Cream

You only need ONE ingredient to make this healthy ice cream recipe: bananas!

I was a skeptic before, thinking there was no way you could make a delicious homemade ice cream using just bananas, but now I LOVE this dessert.

Bananas are a fruit, that makes this healthy treat naturally:

• Dairy-free
• Gluten-free
• Vegan
• Super Affordable
• Easy to Make
• Creamy Soft Serve
• Kid-friendly
• Parent-friendly
• Always in Season

And just to get my point across at how EASY and SIMPLE this tasty ice cream is compared to traditional ice cream, you DON’T need almond milk, vanilla extract, almond butter, heavy cream, coconut milk, or an ice cream maker.

Is Banana Ice Cream Nice Cream?

For a long time I thought that when you made ice cream using frozen bananas, you were making “nice” cream. But as it turns out, Nice Cream is a treat shop in Virginia!

You can still call this nice cream if you want, but it’s also known as:

• banana ice cream
• vegan ice cream
• dairy-free ice cream
• banana nice cream
• frozen banana ice cream
• banana soft serve

Anytime you hear any of these phrases, know they’re talking about the infamous, one-ingredient banana ice cream.

Ingredients for Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Banana Ice Cream

• 2 bananas
• creamy peanut butter
• chocolate chips
• pinch of salt (optional, if not in peanut butter)

How to Make Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Banana Ice Cream

Step 1. Place sliced frozen bananas, peanut butter, and optional salt in a food processor.

Step 2. Process on high until the bananas are super smooth, about 5 minutes, scraping down the sides as necessary.

Step 3. Stir in the chocolate chips.

Step 4. Serve immediately, or place in the freezer to serve later.

Vegan Banana Ice Cream Recipe Tips

You only need bananas to make this ice cream, so let’s talk about this.

• You want RIPE bananas. Bananas get sweeter as they ripen, so you want to use bananas that have at least started to go brown.
• Use FROZEN bananas. That’s the key to this ice cream recipe. Room-temperature bananas will only give you puree.
• You want frozen banana SLICES. I’ve made this with halved bananas and sliced bananas and the ice cream was much easier to make with sliced bananas.

FAQS

More Ice Cream Flavors

Starting with bananas is like starting with a blank slate – the flavor options are endless!

I’m currently crushing on peanut butter chocolate chip.

• For every banana, add 1 tablespoon of peanut butter to the food processor.
• Fold in 1 ½ tablespoons of chocolate chips or chocolate chunks at the end.

The flavors truly are endless though, and you can make up whatever flavor you want based on what you’re in the mood for and what you have in the pantry.

• Want peanut butter banana ice cream? Just skip the chocolate chips!
• Prefer healthy chocolate ice cream? Add a couple of pinches of cocoa powder or dark chocolate when you blend the bananas.
• Want a fruit flavor? Either add it with the bananas or fold it in at the end!

The only thing you MUST have on hand is frozen bananas, so keep a stash in the freezer and you’re good to go!

Cold Dessert Treat Ideas

Here are a few more COLD healthy dessert recipes to enjoy in the summer:

• 3-ingredient Yogurt Popsicles
• Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
• 100% Frozen Fruit Pops
• Cherry Limeade Popsicles
• Coconut Cream Popsicles

More Tasty Dessert Recipes

• Healthy Homemade Chocolate Pie
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
• Homemade Lemon Cake Mix
• Strawberry Poke Cake
• White Bean Blondies
• Apple Crumble Ice Cream