Sweet & Salty Banana H2o Ice Cream (Gluten Free, Vegan)

I conduct maintain a confession to make: I'm genuinely non a huge popcorn fan when it comes to snacking. My one-time college roommates could basically alive off of popcorn as well as macaroni as well as cheese. Me? Not so much.

However, when it comes to using popcorn equally a baking element or crunchy topping, y'all powerfulness equally good telephone telephone me Princess Popcorn. (Don't believe me? Just await - as well as drool over - here, here as well as here.) So, when I had the conduct chances to elbow grease out The Little Kernel - whole grain, gluten as well as dairy free, as well as non GMO mini popcorn ever popped inwards 100% olive crude - I couldn't tell no. Especially when the thought of creating a poppin' banana H2O ice cream striking me like shooting fish in a barrel ane night. 

m genuinely non a huge popcorn fan when it comes to  Sweet & Salty Banana Ice Cream (Gluten Free, Vegan)

Just motion-picture present this: creamy, thick healthy H2O ice cream meets chewy dates, crunchy Sweet as well as Salty kettle corn as well as a splash of vanilla. Topped amongst lightly toasted shredded kokosnoot as well as a homemade chocolate magic shell, this is ane dessert y'all won't desire to halt eating - or ane breakfast that tastes decadent but is genuinely packed amongst salubrious ingredients. And if this sweet as well as salty banana H2O ice cream tin sack convert this popcorn meh-er, let's only tell that popcorn addicts won't live on disappointed...

Ready to instruct your ain nice cream party poppin'? Start yesteryear gathering a few elementary ingredients:

For the Nice Cream:

- 1 chopped frozen banana
- 1/4 loving cup rice milk (or your pick of milk. For an fifty-fifty creamier destination result, role canned lite or full-fat kokosnoot milk)
- dash of vanilla extract
- 1/4 loving cup of mini popcorn or crumbled regular popcorn (I used this kettle popcorn for an extra hint of sweetness)
- 1 date, without the pit, chopped into small-scale pieces 

For the Toppings:

- 1 extra date, torn into pieces
- 1 TBSP or to a greater extent than of shredded toasted kokosnoot (optional)
- Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 small-scale handful of extra popcorn
- 1 TBSP chocolate magic trounce (optional): 1 tsp of kokosnoot oil, a drizzle of H2O as well as a sprinkle of cacao powder 


I promise, this is the easiest "ice cream" y'all tin sack ever make. First, position the bowl for your overnice cream into the freezer. Having a mutual coldness bowl volition assistance your overnice cream remain frozen, fifty-fifty equally y'all layer on your toppings!

m genuinely non a huge popcorn fan when it comes to  Sweet & Salty Banana Ice Cream (Gluten Free, Vegan)
With the popcorn I used inwards the background!

Now, the actual blending. Start yesteryear throwing your frozen pieces of banana, your rice milk as well as vanilla extract to a high-speed blender or food processor. I used my Vitamix, but a Nutribullet would likely operate only equally well! Blend until creamy (mine took less than a minute) as well as so throw inwards your pieces of appointment as well as popcorn as well as blend for only a 2d more. You tin sack also only stir these ingredients correct into the overnice cream.

If y'all desire to dress up your overnice cream, at that topographic point are countless options for toppings. This time, I went amongst to a greater extent than or less other date, torn into pieces, for extra chewiness - addition a sprinkle of shredded toasted kokosnoot for crunch. If y'all don't already conduct maintain to a greater extent than or less toasted kokosnoot on hand, y'all tin sack ever throw to a greater extent than or less raw flakes on the stove top as well as stir them amongst a niggling combat of cinnamon on medium rut for a few minutes. Finally, my go-to chocolate sauce/shell: a combat of coconut oil, a drizzle of H2O as well as a sprinkle of cacao powder. Feel gratis to only eyeball the element amounts (that's what I ever do!) as well as experiment amongst using other superfood powders - similar acai or spirulina - inwards identify of the cacao.

m genuinely non a huge popcorn fan when it comes to  Sweet & Salty Banana Ice Cream (Gluten Free, Vegan)
A closed up...
This recipe is - similar park - inspiration equally much equally an actual formula to follow. To conduct maintain the salty/sweet combo upward to a greater extent than or less other notch, add together pieces of gluten gratis pretzels or a few tablespoons of your favorite trail mix. You could also throw inwards spices similar cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin spice or relish a chocolate overdose amongst the assistance of cacao power or Macaccino powder. Raisins, cacao nibs, crumbled pieces of Enjoy Life's novel ProBurst Bites as well as sunbutter swirls are high on my to-do listing to elbow grease adjacent fourth dimension I whip upward this H2O ice cream!

As the recipe stands, it's non alone gluten gratis as well as vegan, but also poppin' without whatever of the exceed 8 allergens. The bananas offer easily digestible carbohydrates (especially if they were rattling ripe when frozen) along amongst manganese, potassium as well as Vitamin B6 as well as C. Meanwhile, dates are high inwards fiber as well as iron, as well as cacao is ane deliciously calcium-magnesium-zinc-and-Vitamin-E-packed superfood! What's fifty-fifty crazier? Some telephone telephone popcorn a superfood because of its powerfulness to balance blood refined saccharify levels, lower cholesterol as well as mayhap protect eaters from cancer as well as pump disease.

m genuinely non a huge popcorn fan when it comes to  Sweet & Salty Banana Ice Cream (Gluten Free, Vegan)
I don't know what's to a greater extent than popcorn beautiful...the bags or the H2O ice cream!
When y'all listen the discussion "popcorn," the epitome of a buttery purse of your favorite cinema snack may get-go instruct into your mind. However, popcorn tin sack live on more than only a manifestly snack - it tin sack live on business office of a deliciously healthy breakfast or dessert.

The truth is, popcorn from The Little Kernel may live on small, but this recipe's flavour is anything but!


*I received samples of The Little Kernel for no accuse inwards provide for a review. However, all opinions, pictures as well as recipes are my own! Thanks for helping fuel this college celiac's blogging!*

*Also institute at Wow Me Wednesday, How We Roll,  Pretty Pintastic, Saucy Saturday, SITS Share Fest, Snickerdoodle Sunday*


How exercise y'all similar to swallow your popcorn? What flavour add-ins would y'all experiment with? Tell me your thoughts below!
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