A Nice Cream recipe is simply an ice cream recipe made in 5 minutes in your food processor using frozen banana slices. It also includes other ingredients like cocoa powder for a chocolate nice cream or pumpkin spice like in this Pumpkin nice cream recipe. It’s a great alternative to my Banana Frozen Yogurt or Avocado Ice Cream.
Ingredients and Substitutions
Let’s see what you need to start with this nice cream recipe.
Frozen Banana Slices – Ripe bananas work the best because they are softer, sweeter, and reduce the quantity of sweetener needed in the recipe. However, if you only have yellow bananas, the recipe works as well. Maple Syrup or any liquid sweetener, like agave syrup or coconut nectar. Almond Butter or peanut butter Canned Pumpkin Puree or use my homemade pumpkin puree recipe. Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg – for a classic Fall taste. Coconut Milk – or any plant-based milk you enjoy, like almond milk, oat milk, or soy milk. Chopped Pecans or crushed walnuts.
How To Make Pumpkin Nice Cream
There’s nothing easier than this pumpkin banana ice cream! It tastes like soft serve, and it’s only using healthy, wholesome ingredients.
Serving Suggestion
Depending on how much extra coconut milk you added, the mixture can be perfect or too soft for your liking. To firm up the nice cream, pop it in the freezer for 10 to 15 minutes.
Blender Or Food Processor?
The best tool to make nice cream is a food processor. The bowl is much wider, and the banana slices blend perfectly without adding too much liquid. In a blender, the jug is narrow at the bottom, and you often need to add much more coconut milk to bring the ingredients together. It results in overly soft nice cream, looking more like my strawberry banana smoothie bowl than a soft serve. Finally, if you use a blender, remember that you will have to use probably two times more milk and freeze the preparation to firm up before serving.
Serving Ideas
Now, scoop out some pumpkin nice cream into small bowls. Top with some of the ingredients below. It can be all of them or just a few:
Coconut cream or coconut yogurt Melted dark chocolate – most dark chocolates >70% are plant-based. Almond butter Extra chopped pecans Vegan Whipped Cream
Storage
Nice cream recipes don’t store very well. They harden very fast because they are no-churn ice cream. You can store extra leftovers in the freezer, but it takes about 20-30 minutes to soften the next day, which to me is very long! So instead, I prefer to store leftovers in ice cube trays, then ice the frozen ice cubes into a smoothie. Then, when a nice cream craving comes up, use the frozen banana slices and prepare a fresh small batch.
More Pumpkin Recipes
Below I listed more vegan pumpkin recipes for you to try this fall.
