Vanilla and Hazelnut Nice Cream

TÜRKÇE İÇİN TIKLAYIN
PER ITALIANO

Hello,

It is really hot outside, isn't it? How about a big bowl of yummy Vanilla and Hazelnut Nice Cream?

You may have already heard about it, if not, you really should! Nice Cream (or N'ice Cream) is a healthy and delicious ice cream alternative which doesn't contain any refined sugar or dairy. When you blend frozen bananas, its main ingredient, together with a flavor or fruit you'd like, in a matter of seconds you make very healthy and flavorsome ice creams.

I wanted to make something basic so we've made vanilla and hazelnut-cacao flavoured nice creams today.

Once you learn tips and tricks about how to make nice cream, you will see how easy it is to create your own beautifully flavored nice creams.

Tips to make delicious Nice Creams :

1-  Our main ingredient should be frozen RIPE bananas. There are mainly two reasons for that:
     a) Bananas are the ones that make our nice cream really creamy.
     b) We don't add any sweetener, so the riper the bananas the sweeter the nice cream.

2- We can flavour our nice creams by adding some spices or powders like vanilla, cacao, cinnamon...etc.

3- If we'd like to have fruit nice creams, we can add the real thing itself. We can blend frozen ripe bananas with previously cut and frozen fruits like strawberries, blueberries, peaches, apricots, melon...etc.

4- The consistency in fruit flavoured Nice Creams may change due the type of the fruit and quantity that we use. If our nice cream is high in bananas it will be creamier. The more and the juicer fruit you use it will tend to have icier consistency.

5- You can flavour your Nice Cream with nut butters like hazelnut or peanut butter or any butter you'd like.

6- While preparing our Nice Cream time is of the essence. We need to be fast attentive so that it won't melt. We like its creamy consistency right after we blend it and we have it fresh as soon as it's done. If you'd like to eat it later or if you think it became too soft, you can put it back in the freezer to eat it later.

7- If you'd like you can serve your Nice Creams with fresh fruit cuts, raw cacao, chocolate pieces or pistachio, walnut crumbs... etc.

NOTE: Make sure your blender is compatible to process ice and frozen pieces of fruit!!

Here comes the recipe of today.

Ingredients (for 2):
400 g frozen RIPE banana slices
30 g Almond Milk (or another plant based milk)
1/4 tsp vanilla powder (or 1 tsp vanilla extract)
1 TBSP Hazelnut Butter
1 TBSP raw cacao powder (or unsweetened dark cacao powder)

Preparation:

• Blend frozen banana slices, almond milk and vanilla in a high powered blender until you have a creamy ice cream consistency. Make sure not to blend too long, we wouldn't want our ice cream to become too soft.

(Thermomix owners => Blend frozen banana slices, almond milk and vanilla for 15 - 20  seconds on Speed 6 until you have a smooth ice cream consistency. If needed, scrape down the sides and blend a few seconds more. Make sure not to blend too long, we wouldn't want our ice cream to become too soft)

• Transfer half of the nice cream into a container and place it in the freezer. 

• Add cacao powder and hazelnut butter onto the remaining nice cream in the blender container and mix for a short while until all mixed.

(Thermomix owners => Add cacao powder and hazelnut butter onto the remaining nice cream in TM Bowl and mix for 5 seconds on Speed 5 until all mixed.

• Serve vanilla and hazelnut nice creams into bowls. You can sprinkle with raw cacao nibs (crashed cacao beans) if you'd like. 

Enjoy.