Step 3: Enjoy!
For the first go-round, try this recipe as-is.
Thereafter, feel free to consider this a blank canvas for all of your ice cream dreams.
Try adding honey, chocolate syrup, maple syrup, peanut butter, flavored extracts, or additional frozen fruits! Go to town, and make sure you share your favorite remixes in the comments!
Thereafter, feel free to consider this a blank canvas for all of your ice cream dreams.
Try adding honey, chocolate syrup, maple syrup, peanut butter, flavored extracts, or additional frozen fruits! Go to town, and make sure you share your favorite remixes in the comments!
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the frozen bananas were, of course, darkened, because that's what you do, you use bananas ready for banana bread, right? well, the color of them when they were frozen and smooshed in the bag simply darkened as they began to melt. never got white and frothy. i ran the blender some more, wondering if magic might start to happen a bit later. worried b/c the bottom of the mixture was getting stirred, but the top was sitting there in a sort-of gelatinous mass. i tilted the blender to encourage the stuff on top to get mixed in, and even stopped to stir.
what came off of the spoon wasn't even cold: the blades had generated enough heat to completely melt any trace of freeziness. i ended up with slightly-more-blended, smooshed banana. basically what i put into the freezer in the first place.
my wife was there with me, b/c we were planning to eat a yummy freezy banana treat, and she just kept laughing and insisting the whole thing was a big elaborate hoax. that no one could possibly have ended up with something that resembles ice cream, and that everyone else who left comments was in on the hoax. so, my point is: don't get a blender just for this treat. you may feel that you, too, have become the brunt of a giant hoax.
anyone else have this experience when attempting to make this?
My tips:
I figured maybe I had let the bananas go too long, so tried a second batch. This time I froze the peeled bananas when the skins were slightly brown, but the bananas were still white. EXACT same result. The banana "cream" tasted just as rotten as the first batch.
My guess is, unless you like the taste of way over-ripened bananas, you'll have to freeze the bananas when they are still fresh. I'm going to try that next. (Though I don't know if the freezing process itself is actually producing that "over-ripe banana" flavor.)
On another note, I find that if you add enough chocolate, caramel, nuts, and fruits to the "ice cream" it's almost edible, but that probably rather defeats the purpose.
I find it interesting that you used the word "hoax" as this is exactly the word my own girlfriend used when we tried it the first time. She refused to even taste it the second time around. Hopefully third time's the charm!
I think the point of this recipe is that the banana's need to be frozen whole, or at least in large chunks, and not 'smooshed', because smooshing them before frozen actually speeds up the browning process (oxidation) and releases a lot of the water content. When done as the instructable says, the frozen banana's first blend into an almost bread crumb like consistency, before taking on the smooth and silky texture described.
I do have to mention that I intially had some trouble getting it beyond the crumbly mixture, but that's mainly because I was using my stick blender with the little bowl attachement, and in the end just transferred it to the mixing cup and using the stick attachment, and it worked beautifully.
Don't be scared to try this again =P freeze the banana's whole!
the ice cream tasted like rotten bananas
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I was allso testing tofu-cram-thing, so I wisked the "cream" in to a foam and mixed them together with soma rasberry-jam.. I was good and my daughter loved it! :D
I'll make something like this for her birthday!
I'm not sure if it would have the same consistency, but i'm going to try it with strawberries. i'll let you know when i try it ;)
Or is it a place for negative "Know-it-alls" to pick the projects apart, and generally critisize? (They sound so angry)
On a side note.....Look at the complaints by these geniuses. They all have misspelled words in them.
Don't pay attention to these people. The rest of us love your demos.
Keep them coming! ;)
So, frozen bananas should be called frozen bananas.
I don't own an ice cream maker anymore but I would consider buying one for this recipe, if I need to. It sounds amazing!
I peel and DEEP freeze them. Blending one decent sized banana and a cup of cold milk gives a consistency of a "thick shake".
I've often heard the BS that people can't tell the difference between fresh and brown banana if they can't see it first. Like you, I can!
But of course bananas aren't plants, they're seed pods, so it's OK.
Btw- There IS a such thing as vegan ice cream so....yeah...
Vegetables are what food eats. ;-)
Please be open-minded. Whatever I eat, whatever my religion, whatever my ethnicity I am a human being just like you. I could be a human being that you like too, but you'd never know by shutting me out for eating the way I do. I think it's labels and stereotypes that are annoying and ignorant. No good may come of them.
Nor would I say I would "shut someone out" for their being vegan.
Please don't get me wrong. I'm not out to get you. I just hope that you might consider the harm generalizations can have. I would love to just be me without people talking negatively about my personal life choices. While your statements aren't specific to me, they are specific to my lifestyle and thus has a negative connotation. Maybe it just something to consider.
I'd also like to point out that not many people introduce themselves by saying "I'M A VEGETARIAN", so unless they were publicly shaming the consumption of meat, or on their moral high horse about ethical treatment of animals (the very kind of vegetarians that are insufferable morons), there is no way for me to make an opinion of a vegetarian person without getting to know them.
I can understad that, and MOST non-omnivores SHOULD IMO be aware that statistically they are more likely to die young and suffer anemia and malnutrition, etc. Still it's not les valid to eat or not to eat whatever every single human being feels more like it (or can, in some cases), so I can understand the polemic caused by this, yet I don't support some of the opinions left clear here.
I don't expect people to eat like me. What's right for me may not be right for others. What I do expect though is for companies to be ethical, the media to be informative, and people on our planet to know where there food comes and care about the process.
I don't look down on anyone who eats a steak. Hopefully no one will look down on me for eating the meatless alternative.
If you are going to make general statements from the Bible ("not eat them.") then you should read the whole thing, not just the parts you feel back up your views: Didn't God send down Quail in Exodus 16:13?
I sure am glad God made bananas. Great invention!
in fact i would say the opposite, you go out of the IN ORDER to share your eating style. other than that though you seem like a pretty decent person.
Yes, I realize bananas aren't "healthy" to anyone who has to avoid sugar, because the sugar they are most loaded with, is glucose, and they are LOADED with it. But my kids are both allergic to dairy and soy, and coconut milk ice cream is $7 a pint, and if I make it at home the only coconut milk available where I live is canned, which means loaded with BPA...so this may make it reasonable in price and health, to make a birthday party with a frozen ice creamy dessert.
Next time I'm going to try Limes. I suspect that too will cover the Banana. Although I like the Banana flavor and not trying to cover it. Maybe IF I get the ratios correct I can get both flavors to be recognizable.
try it with fresh sweet mango... a blast!
But i was wondering a few things:
-would adding a bit of sugar make it weird in any way?
-and, if this freezing and blending magic would work on any fruit (eg, strawberries, apples~just wondering???)
-thanks ;P
Cherimoya would do it, i have a lot of those where i live :D
I get around the issue with little lactaid pills. They're lactase enzymes (replacing the ones you're friend and i don't have enough of) that help us digest the lactose sugar. I ~always~ keep one in my pocket just in case I end up somewhere eating something with milk in it!
I have never needed them of course but i'll ask my friend if he ever heard of them before.
It must suck to be lactose intolerant huh?
Ya, it seriously sucks. However, in a good city, it isn't hard to find things like lactose-free milk or lactose-free ice cream. At least, here in the US. I've never seen it in Europe.
Worse, though, is gout runs in my family. Gout is caused by purines, which is in red meat in small amounts, but also in shrimp, spinach, and legumes (peas, beans including cocoa and coffee)! Lucky for me, I never did OD on coffee or chocolate, but I miss the spinach and shrimp. (My cat would tear your arm off for fresh spinach.)
*gasp*
I seriously did not know that.... and neither did my friend. * double gasp*
THANK YOU!!! i should tell him right away! * fumbles for phone*
i froze them UNpeeled and they turned out OK,
Sugarego,
i think because you mushed them bbefore hand, that encoraged the bananas to go overbrowned, therefore you got a brown one
also the reason why yours werent cold was because they were alredy mushed so all you did is stir and melt from the first place!
i just made some, put it *back* in the freezer to harden up a bit. Gonna try it soon!!