Healthy Chocolate Nice Cream

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This 4-ingredient Healthy Chocolate Nice Cream boasts the same creamy deliciousness of traditional chocolate ice cream without all those fillers. Plus, it’s dairy free, vegan, and ready to eat in less than 10 minutes. Dessert is served! healthy chocolate ice cream in a bowl

Calling all Ice Cream Lovers!

We’re big ice cream fans over here at Fit Foodie Finds, so we set out to create our own healthy nice cream recipes that:
  1. Didn’t take forever to make or require an ice cream maker (haii, my kitchen doesn’t need another kitchen gadget that ONLY makes one thing).
  2. Wasn’t filled with a bunch of crap ingredients. So, here we are! Get ready for your new favorite chocolate nice cream! And it’s oh so easy to make, too.

Healthy Chocolate Nice Cream Ingredients

Let’s start by taking a little looksy at this ingredient list. It won’t take long to read through; we’ll wait ๐Ÿ˜€
  • Frozen sliced bananas
  • Cocoa powder
  • Unsweetened almond milk
  • vanilla extract

How to Make Healthy Nice Cream

With a little prep beforehand, this healthy chocolate nice cream can be whipped up in no time at all. We’ll walk ya through it with us:

Freeze Sliced Bananas

Simply slice bananas evenly and place on a baking sheet covered in parchment paper. Place the entire sheet in the freezer for at least 30 minutes. When you take your nanners out of the freezer, you’ll just need to scrape them off the parchment paper and place right in the blender (if you’re making this healthy nice cream right away), or into a ziploc or Stasher bag to keep in the freezer for later use. Freezing the sliced bananas on a baking sheet first will prevent your bananas from sticking together when you place them in a bag. Want a step-by-step on this process? WE GOT YOU healthy chocolate ice cream ingredients

Place all Ingredients in a High-Speed Blender

Measure out your frozen sliced bananas, cocoa powder, almond milk and vanilla extract and place it all in your high-speed blender. You’ll want a serious blender or food processor for this step to ensure all the bananas are blended to perfection. If you use your blender for smoothies with frozen ingredients, you’re good to go here!

Blend it Up

Blend up all your ingredients until smooth. Depending on how frozen solid your banana slices are, you may need to thin out your healthy ice cream with almond milk. We recommend thinning it with a tablespoon of almond milk at a time until you get your desired consistency. healthy chocolate ice cream in a blender

Serve or Freeze for Later

Because your banana slices were frozen when you started this recipe, the consistency of your healthy ice cream should be perfect to serve up with a soft serve consistency and enjoy immediately. But if you’re making this ahead of time, or would prefer to save some for later, line a loaf pan with parchment paper and pour your ice cream into the pan. Store covered (we used aluminum foil to cover the pan!) in your freezer and enjoy at your leisure.

Don’t Forget Toppings

We love serving and of our healthy ice cream recipes with chocolate chips, but feel free to get jazzy and serve with your favorite ice cream toppings like:
  • sprinkles
  • diced nuts
  • vegan whipped cream
  • chocolate syrup
  • fresh berries
  • in between 2 cookies as an ice cream sammie
healthy chocolate ice cream in a bowl

More Nice Cream Recipes

4.95 from 36 votes

Healthy Chocolate Nice Cream

This 4-ingredient Healthy Chocolate Nice Cream boasts the same creamy deliciousness of traditional chocolate ice cream without all those fillers. Plus, it’s dairy free, vegan, and ready to eat in less than 10 minutes. Dessert is served!
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 0 minutes
Total: 10 minutes
Servings: 2
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Ingredients 

  • 2 cups frozen sliced bananas
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon unsweetened almond milk*

Instructions 

  • Place all ingredients into a high-speed blender or Vitamix and mix on high until a smooth, thick consistency has been formed. Option to add more milk by the tablespoon as needed.
  • Serve immediately or transfer into a parchment-lined bread loaf. Then, place into the freezer for 1 to 2 hours to firm up.
  • Serve with chocolate chips.

Tips & Notes

  • Depending on how frozen your bananas are, you may need to add 1 to 2 more tablespoons of almond milk.

Watch It

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Nutrition

Calories: 171 kcal, Carbohydrates: 39 g, Protein: 4 g, Fat: 2 g, Fiber: 8 g, Sugar: 17 g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Emily is Fit Foodie Finds' editor-in-chief. She has a master's degree in strategic communication and a passion for food. She is an incredible at-home cook, making her writing an important part of the content creation process.

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Debra
Debra
July 22, 2019 10:00 am

Like most recipes for non dairy ice cream I was disappointed in the frosty texture after freezing. Hmmm! Flavor is great, nice and chocolatie however the texture came out like a frosty. Not as shown in video.๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ™

Marlo
Marlo
July 12, 2019 12:22 pm

How many bananas and how much of the rest of ingredients ?

David
David
July 5, 2019 10:13 am

I’m allergic to almonds, can you substitute soy milk or Lactaid?

Lee Funke
July 6, 2019 4:53 pm
Reply to  David

Of course!

Dena
Dena
June 26, 2019 5:23 pm

This looks wonderful yet I’m wondering if there are other fruits to use other than bananas. We have someone in our household who is very allergic to bananas. Thank you!

Lee Funke
July 2, 2019 6:29 pm
Reply to  Dena

Unfortunately, you need bananas for this nice cream to work!

Carol Valandra
Carol Valandra
June 11, 2019 1:58 am

These r great how can I get ur recipes

dildos
June 27, 2013 9:23 am

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Becky
June 8, 2013 12:57 am

No freaking way! You are from New Berlin, WI?!?! So am I!! I am in the military and currently living in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I can’t believe what a small world this is! I recently started following your blog and love it (huge fan of healthy living!!) Best of luck and enjoy your time back in good old WI!!

Lee Funke
June 8, 2013 1:03 am
Reply to  Becky

So funny! I went to Eisenhower and graduated in 08! What about you?

Becky
June 8, 2013 11:31 pm
Reply to  Lee Funke

Funny story, I call New Berlin, WI home.. (that’s where I did a lot of my big adult growing up things: learn to drive, prom, 1st job, move away from, came home to during college, etc). But I had actually lived in Greenfield, WI until Jr year of HS and graduated from there –also in 2008. My parents house is really close to Ike though..know that area.

Lee Funke
June 10, 2013 12:50 pm
Reply to  Becky

Gotcha!!! Well Greenfield was in our conference, so I had my fair share of soccer games at your school ๐Ÿ™‚

GiGi Eats Celebrities
June 7, 2013 10:30 pm

Virtually HIGH-FIVING you for eating healthier, home-made ice cream!!! ๐Ÿ˜€

Jody - Fit at 55
June 7, 2013 9:26 pm

CONGRATS to Anytime Fitness!!! I will be clicking on all your links! ๐Ÿ™‚

Angela @ Eat Spin Run Repeat
June 7, 2013 2:47 pm

Oh maaaaajor swoon at this chocolate ice cream! Might have to try it for myself this weekend! ๐Ÿ™‚

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