Sugar Free Banana Sweetened Ice Cream

 

Desserts are fun! Ice cream is fun! And banana sweetened ice cream is really fun! It uses the natural sweetness of bananas for a sugar-free treat that is healthy and delicious.

A Probiotic Treat

It’s so easy to culture milk and whipping cream that I pretty much only use pre-cultured dairy. This recipe is a perfect way to get a dose of probiotics. The tartness of cultured dairy is balanced by the natural sweetness of fruit, and freezing won’t harm the probiotic culture. The easiest way to culture whipping cream is with a room temperature culture. Simply add the culture to your whipping cream, and leave it for 6-24 hours, depending on how sour you want it.

Here are a few room temperature (mesophilic) dairy cultures that you could use to make probiotic whipping cream:

• Buttermilk
• Milk Kefir
• Mesophilic Yogurt
• Sour Cream

Fruit Flavours

This ice cream is perfect for all sorts of different fruit flavours. Here are a few of my favourite recommendations.

1. Simply banana: Don’t add any extra fruit for a straight up banana ice cream. Banana ice cream is delicious topped with nuts and caramel date sauce.
2. Orange: Use the zest and juice from 1 orange for an orange creamsicle flavour.
3. Strawberry cream: Add 1 cup of fresh ripe strawberries.
4. Peaches and cream: Add 1 cup of ripe, juicy peaches.
5. Blueberry pie: Add 1 cup of blueberries and serve with an ice cream cone.

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