I wasn’t planning on posting this tonight, but it’s the weekend and it’s nice to have something cool and sweet to eat while chillin’, right?
Well this is my own version of rocky road ice cream. I don’t think I was ever a fan of rocky road ice cream beore, but this dessert just ‘happened’ today. And after taking the photo and deciding to post it I thought it looked like rocky road and… I needed to give it a name.
This is a real food ice cream. This is made of fresh real food ingredients. Banana ice cream (made only of frozen bananas and cinnamon) topped with dates, dried mulberries and homemade chocolate (raw cacao, coconut oil and raw unfiltered honey). I will definitely be making this again and since I forgot to add nuts, next time I will be adding pecans or some other nuts to the mix for sure. Note: Many have termed ice cream made from plant-based ingredients as “Nice Cream”.
Ingredients:
Ice Cream
    2 frozen bananas
    1/8 tsp cinnamon
Raw Chocolate
    1/8 cup raw cacao*
    1/2 to 1 TBS raw, unfiltered honey*
    1 TBS coconut oil
Additional Toppings
    dried mulberries*
    dates*
    nuts*
*High FODMAP food – remove from ingredients to achieve a┬áLow FODMAP┬árecipe.
Directions:
- Before making the ice cream. mix together the raw cacao (or cocoa powder of choice), honey and coconut oil with a spoon. Add more coconut oil or honey if still too dry. Spread onto wax paper and put into freezer for about an hour.
- Place frozen bananas and cinnamon into a high speed blender and process until you create a smooth, ice cream consistency. This is where a Vitamix is very useful.
- Put ice cream into a bowl, break chocolate into pieces over the top and add other toppings as desired.
Alternatives/Add-ins:
- Add vanilla extract or vanilla bean to the bananas in addition to or in place of the cinnamon
- Use ready-made chocolate chips if you are short of time, but I hope you would try to make your own dark raw chocolate because it’s simple and made of simple real food ingredients
- Add avocado and mint to flavor the ice cream so you can create mint chocolate chip ice cream (It’s likely that I will try that one this week too.)
- Swirl in some nut butter or full fat coconut milk (or both)
