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All hail homemade Nice Cream! A wonderful creation that means we can make a healthy alternative dessert quickly and easily. Made with creaming frozen fruit, it’s sugar free, can be made dairy free and takes just minutes to whiz together.
What is Nice Cream, I hear you cry?
It’s a healthy ice cream alternative (made with frozen bananas) that’s growing in popularity, and here I show you how to make it in just a few minutes. It’s honestly so easy!
Simply blitz the ingredients together in a food processor – and that’s it! You can enjoy it straight away or freeze to firm it up a little.
It’s perfect for using up leftover bananas and you can make it with or without a little dairy. It works either way.
This is an ideal dessert for the whole family for those days when you want a little sweet treat but you don’t want anything that’s ultra processed or full of sugar.
Why you’ll love this Banana Nice Cream recipe
⭐️ Natural ingredient healthy dessert
⭐️ Can be made dairy free
⭐️ So easy to make & a delicious treat!
More Nice Cream Flavours
You can customise your flavours in so many ways. Here are my favourite flavours to adapt my original Nice Cream recipe.
🍓 Strawberry: Add in 8 frozen strawberries when blending and top with some crushed up biscuits (you can use fresh strawberries if that’s what you have in).
🥜 Peanut Butter: Add in 3 tbsp of peanut butter and top with some chopped peanuts.
🍫 Chocolate: Add in 2 tbsp of cocoa powder and top with a few chocolate shavings.
Nice Cream Ingredients
- Bananas – You’ll need 3 for this 2-serving recipe. Peel and slice your fresh bananas and freeze them fully first. Or buy frozen bananas.
- Milk – Use just 1 tablespoon of milk to give this a little creaminess. Use dairy free milk if you prefer.
- Vanilla – Go for paste or extract here.
- Salt – Just a small pinch for added flavour.
How to make Nice Cream
1. Freeze your bananas fully in chunks first.
2. Add your frozen bananas, milk, vanilla paste and salt into a food processor and blitz until very smooth.
TO SERVE: Eat as it is or pop in the freezer for 30 minutes–1 hour to firm up.
Storing
Nice Cream will keep in the freezer for up to 2 weeks.
Store it in a container and scoop out to serve, giving a full ice cream effect!
More Banana recipes…
Sweet Things
Banana Split
Sweet Things
Banana Muffins
Sweet Things
Banana Cake {FOOLPROOF Recipe}
Desserts
Banoffee Pie
FAQs
Not overwhelmingly. The original recipe tastes more like creamy bananas, but the stronger you make the other flavours, the less you can taste the banana.
No! Freezing them is what makes them creamy and thick. If you use unfrozen bananas, your Nice Cream will be more like a banana smoothie to drink, rather than eat.
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How to Make Nice Cream
Ingredients
- 3 Bananas, Peeled, sliced and frozen
- 1 tbsp Milk, Cow's or dairy alternative
- 1 tsp Vanilla paste, Or 1/2 tsp extract
- Small pinch of salt
Instructions
- Add your frozen bananas, milk, vanilla paste and salt into a food processor and blitz until very smooth. (You may need to scrape the sides down a few times.)
- Eat as it is or pop in the freezer for 30 minutes-1 hour to firm up a little.
Notes
- Strawberry: Add in 8 frozen strawberries when blending and top with some crushed up biscuits.
- Peanut Butter: Add in 3 tbsp of peanut butter and top with some chopped peanuts.
- Chocolate: Add in 2 tbsp of cocoa powder and top with a few chocolate shavings.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This recipe was originally published on 12th July 2014. It was updated on 26th August 2025 with a new recipe, new photographs and an updated method.
Oh wow, I am definitely making this today. What a revelation!
yum i love this, been looking for a recipe for this. Thank sfor sharing.
Simon
Oh, you had me at the words ‘instant’ and ‘ice cream’–put the two together, OMG! This sounds seriously good. Spend so much of my time trying out recipes for the little folk that I don’t usually do much with coffee, but I think I’ll be making this just for me 🙂 Lovely food photos too.
This looks amazing, but I am so glad I don’t like coffee, so I am not drooling as much as usual over your pictures! Thanks for much for linking up to #TheList xx
I love the idea of this but can’t eat bananas so I’m rather stuck! I’ll have to spend a few hours on Pinterest investigating other flavours.
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First of all, beautiful blog!! Secondly, this instant ice cream looks and sounds amazing. I’ll be trying is myself very soon, will keep you posted. Thanks for sharing xx
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Amazing!! Thanks
This looks amazing and I know my daughter would love this in particular as even though she’s just 10 she loves the flavour or coffee in puddings and cakes: + she loves Nutella. On my to do list:-)