Banana ice cream

[mothwing]

It's summer, we're living under a roof, and due to my paper I am at home most of the time during the day. That means that I stopped my adventures with bakery for now because our tiny kitchen gets unpleasantly warm when the oven is on and switched to ice cream and sorbets. nectarine sorbet is really recommendable, the flavour is extremely rich.

I switched from sorbets to ice cream after finding this blog. The recipes she lists are all for people lucky enough to possess an ice cream maker, but using my hand blender on it every hour helps with that and makes the texture very nice and creamy. I haven't found a way to prevent unpleasant ice crystals from forming, but I'm guessing that I should have used cream instead of milk, as more fat is bound to prevent that.

Anyway, banana ice cream. We had three bananas left and they were getting brown, so I used them for this: 



Recipe: 
2 cups of milk (soy milk works great) - although the original recipe lists cream, so I'm guessing that that prevents the ice crystals.
2-3 bananas
1/2 cup of sugar (and you could use less, bananas are sweet)
1 TS vanilla.

The original recipe is for peanut butter banana ice cream, so you could add 1/2 cup peanut butter. Crocky's allergic, so I opted out.

You blend the milk and the bananas, add the sugar, boil it until the sugar has dissolved, add the vanilla, then let it cool. Put it in the freezer, blend it again every hour. It should be ready after four hours. 

Nom. Due to the texture of the bananas, the consistency is great. My attempts at chocolate ice cream didn't turn out as well, I'm afraid. My chocolate dollops were frozen rock hard, there were, again, too many ice crystals, and the cocoa I used tasted funny. Back to the drawing bord, it's not as though experimenting isn't fun.

Comments

[lordhellebore]

I want this. Banana is my favourite flavour and it looks so tasty ^^

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

It's very yummy, yes, less difficult than I thought it would be, far tastier than the shop-bought stuff, and healthier, too, because you can use as little sugar as you want.

[lordhellebore]

Less sugar is always a good thing. I usually use less sugar than recipes suggest, even if they work with raw sugar, which is less sweet than refined one already.

Btw., do you know this vegan cookbook site? The rest of the page (veganismus.de) is completly idiotic veganism propaganda ("Meat eaters are murderers!!11!), but the recipe secion is great:

http://tierrechtskochbuch.de/

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Oh, danke für den Tip! Ich mag die "Alternativen"-Liste, weil die mir schon des öfteren größeres Kopfzerbrechen gemacht haben. Die "Euphemismen" sind allerdings der Hammer.

[lordhellebore]

"Bienenerbrochenes" und "Hühnermenstruationsprodukte" find ich besonders klasse :P

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Jo, das waren auch meine Favoriten. XD

[utter-pirate.livejournal.com]

*Eiskremneid* And I don't even like banana...! (As a flavour.) :)

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Tasha!! <3

Yeah, I was surprised, too. Normally, I don't like banana, self-made banana ice cream is much tastier than the shop bought stuff, so I might yet be converted.