Homemade Creamy Banana Ice Cream

This creamy banana ice cream needs just four ingredients and no ice cream maker. Whipped cream does the churning for you: fold it through mashed ripe bananas, freeze, and four hours later you're scooping ice cream that tastes like pure banana: no extract, no machine.

The recipe was born from an overdose of ripe bananas. My children won't touch them once brown spots appear, but turn them into ice cream and suddenly they're fighting over the bowl.

Readers agree as Kim put it in the comments, "the texture is perfection."

Overripe bananas are actually the secret here: sweeter fruit means less added sugar.

And especially when it becomes ice cream. A rich and flavorful cold snack in which you can taste small lumps of sweet fruit. And this cold snack doesn't taste like some artificial food additives. Yes, this banana ice cream will even the pickiest eaters go bananas for it!

Creamy banana ice cream made without an ice cream maker. That pure taste of homemade ice cream is so delicious, nothing can beat that!

• Bananas - Of course, this homemade ice cream contains bananas. Use nice ripe bananas (they can have brown spots). These contain more fruit sugars and therefore you need to add less sugar.

• Cream - You use an ice cream maker to get fluffy ice cream. But because this recipe is made without an ice cream machine, you use cream that you beat until stiff.

• Lemon - A little bit of lemon juice is used to prevent discoloration of the bananas.

Step 1 - Peel the bananas

Peel the bananas and remove any threads.

Step 2 - Mash them

Use a fork and mash the fruit. Mix the mashed banana with lemon juice to prevent discoloration.

Step 3 Mix all the ingredients

Beat the cream with the sugar until just stiff. Stir in the mashed banana mixture and mix well.

Step 4 - Freeze!

Pour the cream mixture into a freezer container and place in the freezer. After about four hours it is sufficiently frozen so that you can easily scoop it. But you can also leave it in the freezer a little longer. Then, when serving, let it stand at room temperature for five minutes, so that it becomes scoopable again.

Great variations

Of course this pure banana ice cream is super tasty, but have you also thought about these variants?

• Rum and chocolate - Banana ice cream with a kick (and super tasty). Add 1 tablespoon of rum and 3 tablespoons of finely chopped dark chocolate to your cream.
• Walnut and chocolate - Delicious homemade ice cream with a bite. Roast walnuts in a pan and chop finely. Add 3 tablespoons of walnuts and 3 tablespoons of finely chopped dark chocolate.
• Chocolate Banana Ice Cream - When You Can't Get Enough Chocolate! Add 3 tablespoons of cocoa and 3 tablespoons of chocolate chips to the cream mixture before freezing. Irresistibly delicious.
• Oreo banana ice cream - It's not for nothing that ice cream with cookies is delicious. But ice cream with chocolate cookies gets a big 10. Crumble 10 Oreo cookies and stir them through the banana ice cream.
• Strawberry banana ice cream - Puree 10 strawberries and stir them into the liquid ice cream mixture before freezing for a delicious fruity taste.

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