Is there anything better than ice cream? Whether it is a cold winter day or hot summer night, there is no wrong time to enjoy ice cream. It is the year round treat that is universally loved by everyone. People who are lactose intolerant cannot resist ice cream, even if it means a night of bloating and gas. We have some good news for the lactose intolerant people, and it is that the ice cream recipes in this article are 100% dairy-free. 

Does dairy-free, raw vegan ice cream sound too good to be true? Not only is banana ice cream much healthier than regular ice cream, but it is also just as delicious. Don’t knock it until you try it because these simple, no-churn creations will satisfy your ice cream craving and leave you feeling nice and light after enjoying it. 

What Is Nice Cream?

Simply put, nice cream is ice cream that is nice to your body. It isn’t technically ice cream, but it does have the same creamy texture that you know and love. Nice cream usually has the base of frozen bananas, which you blend until thick and creamy. The ingredients you blend with the frozen bananas will determine the flavor profile. You can do everything from chocolate banana nice cream to salted caramel banana nice cream. You can even blend bananas with a little vanilla extract and call it a day!

If you are a banana lover, then nice cream will satisfy your ice cream craving. You can make it in a pinch because you only need the ingredients and a blender. Depending on how frozen you want the nice cream, you can spoon the blended banana mixture into a freezer-safe container and freeze for a couple hours to really firm up. That is what you want to do if you want perfect scoops. If you enjoy a texture that is more akin to frozen yogurt, you can enjoy it straight out of the food processor or blender. To get your started, take a look at the following recipes, all of which are dairy-free, raw vegan, and completely cleanse-approved. 

3-Ingredient Chocolate Banana Ice Cream

Can you believe this chocolate banana ice cream is 100% raw vegan? Of course you can because we just told you all of these ice creams are exactly that! Made with bananas, cacao, and raw almond butter, this is to die for!

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Strawberry Banana Ice Cream

Raw vegan, paleo, and dairy-free, this strawberry banana ice cream is the perfect dessert to cool you down from the inside out when it’s hot outside.

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Banana Pineapple Ice Cream

A true taste of the tropics! A healthy, non-alcoholic rendition of a piña colada, minus the coconut. However, you can always add fresh coconut meat or desiccated coconut to the recipe to achieve a similar flavor to that classic cocktail. 

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Raw Vegan Butter Pecan Ice Cream.

No butter, but there are pecans in this healthier rendition of a classically unhealthy dessert. Making the dairy-free, raw vegan version of butter pecan ice cream is as easy as 1,2, 3! Get out the food processor and blend away!

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Banana Coconut Ginger Ice Cream

Serve up a bowl of this luxurious, raw vegan banana ginger coconut ice cream. You don’t even need an ice cream maker!

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Chocolate ice cream is a favorite dessert for many people. There’s a seductive quality to chocolate ice cream, satisfying sweetness and hitting gentle notes of bitter cacao. Kids lose their minds and adults love to indulge in this sinful treat. People crave chocolate because of the enchanting aroma and heavenly taste. As it melts in your mouth, it coats the tongue in a layer of rich, chocolaty flavor.

There’s another reason why the experience of eating chocolate makes you happy. Eating chocolate actually releases dopamine, which is a feel-good neurotransmitter, in specific regions of the brain. These regions include the frontal lobe, hippocampus, and hypothalamus. The brain releases dopamine anytime you experience something that gives you joy or pleasure. If eating chocolate is one of those experiences, you continue to associate chocolate with a sensation of joy. We can only hope you feel the same way about this recipe, which is a much healthier, dairy-free version of chocolate ice cream.

This isn’t ice cream; rather, it’s nice cream. It’s nice in that it is nice to your body, unlike regular dairy ice cream, which can impair digestion and cause bloating or mucus production. That typically doesn’t stop people from gorging an entire pint of the fattening dessert in one sitting, though. Just so we are all clear, one pint of ice cream is not one serving. That means people are most likely consuming excess sugar, calories, fats, and other preservatives while enjoying ice cream. You don’t have to worry about that when you enjoy this recipe! Now, let’s get ready to blend away and dive in for a healthy dessert.

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When you follow a raw vegan diet, you can have your dessert and eat it too! Although the raw vegan diet can seem like a limiting eating experience, you can enjoy numerous recipes that surprise and excite your taste buds. You can’t make every classic recipe that you know and love, but there are many raw renditions like this ice cream recipe.

In order to achieve a creamy base, you need to blend up frozen bananas. That means that you need to have a strong, high-speed blender, or a food processor to blend the ingredients thoroughly. You don’t want chunks of bananas in your bite of ice cream, so make sure to blend until you achieve a smooth consistency. This can take a couple minutes, but it’s ultimately worth it. The raw cashew butter, which you can purchase in a variety of grocery stores, contributes to the creamy texture. You then have to blend the caramel separately

This isn’t caramel in the traditional sense; rather, it’s date caramel. It’s more akin to date syrup, which you make by blending dates with some homemade almond milk (click here for recipe), sea salt, and alcohol-free vanilla extract. It’s integral that you soak the dates in water for about 30 minutes prior to blending to help soften them. This makes the blending process much easier. You only mix in the date caramel right before you serve the nice cream, otherwise it will harden and be unpleasant to eat if you freeze it.

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This week, The Hairy Arm Chef shows us how to make RAW VEGAN Banana Chocolate “NICE” Cream!

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Diving into a bowl of ice cream doesn’t mean that you have to consume dairy or a long list of unhealthy ingredients. Making your own ice cream is fun, easy to do, and requires a select few ingredients. This recipe embodies that statement, and it’s about to change your life. We do have to tell you that this is not raw vegan, so you cannot enjoy it while cleansing. Once you finish cleansing, however, you can enjoy this peanut butter banana nice cream.

The crazy thing about this recipe is that there are only two ingredients: bananas and peanut butter. The only other piece of equipment you need is a food processor to blend it into a creamy ice cream. You can make this recipe in a high-speed blender, but it needs to be a high-speed blender. No offense to any weak or slow blenders out there, but they simply won’t get the job done. Whether you use a blender or a food processor, it will take a couple minutes to fully puree the frozen bananas. You may even have to scrape down the sides a few times to make sure that your ice cream is perfectly smooth. We like chunky peanut butter, but not chunky ice cream!

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Did you know that you can perform a culinary magic trick with a couple ingredients? As long as you have a high-speed blender or food processor, you have the ability to turn a banana into ice cream. When you blend a frozen banana, you achieve a wonderfully creamy consistency. Frozen bananas are perfect smoothie ingredients to achieve maximum creaminess, but they also make the perfect ice cream base. 

Banana nice cream, as it has become known, is a healthy alternative to classic dairy-laden, sugar-rich ice creams. Most people like to sit down after a long day and enjoy a scoop, or two, or three, or a pint of ice cream. All of that dairy and sugar consumption can lead to a lot of mucus accumulation, fat storage, or poor digestion. Instead, sit down with a dessert that you can enjoy guilt-free!

How To Freeze Bananas

This seems like a no-brainer, but there is a specific technique to help make your life infinitely easier. First and foremost, never freeze your bananas with the peels on, well, unless you want to struggle. Always peel the bananas prior to freezing them. Once you peel the bananas, slice them into half-inch thick rounds. You don’t have to get a ruler out to measure each slice, but make them roughly that size. Using four or five bananas at a time, place the slices on a baking tray lined with parchment paper and place it in the freezer overnight. Remove the bananas in the morning, transfer them to Ziploc bags, and then keep them in the freezer until you are ready to use them. The reason for slicing them is because smaller frozen banana pieces break down quicker during the blending process and help you achieve a thicker, creamier ice cream.

How To Make Banana Nice Cream

Once you have your frozen banana slices, the next step is to use your high-speed blender or food processor. There is no need for an ice cream maker, folks! Follow whichever recipe you decide on and add the frozen bananas to processor. Then you can add more ingredients to flavor your nice cream. A few popular ingredients include raw cacao powder, grade A maple syrup, raw almond butter, raw agave nectar, or certain fruit. We have four of our most popular nice cream recipes below and we hope you enjoy them. 

Guilt-Free Raw Banana Chocolate Nice Cream

Sometimes you just need a little sweetness in your life. You don’t need processed ice creams when you can make tasty desserts like this!

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Creamy Banana Ice Cream

This is the easiest ice cream recipe you’ll ever make. It’s a refreshing dessert with just the right amount of sweetness to satisfy your sweet tooth.

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Raw Vegan Blueberry Ice Cream

Two ingredients stand between you and a refreshing bowl of ice cream: blueberries & bananas. Say hello to your new favorite summer dessert.

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2-Ingredient Chocolate Banana Nice Cream

This is the perfect guilt-free treat for warm summer days. No ice cream machine needed and it’s ready in under 5 minutes!

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We never thought that two ingredients could taste so good! Let us introduce you to nice cream, an easy raw-vegan ice cream that is dairy-free and ready in minutes. Frozen bananas are your base, so make sure to peel and chop them the night before in order to yield a luscious nice cream consistency.

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National Brownie Day is a day to indulge in one of America’s favorite baked goods. This classic bake sale item is a cross between a cookie and a cake and with so many kinds of brownies (blonde, chocolate, fudge, maple, or layered), it can be hard to figure out which ones you want to eat. It’s a good thing we have some delicious recipes for you in this article. But first…A brief history of the brownie.

A History, In Brief

Brownies were the brainchild of some brilliant chef in the late 1800s. What made this man create such an infamous baked good? Well, he was requested to make a dessert for ladies, who wanted a small cake-like dessert that could be eaten as part of a boxed lunch, attending a fair in Chicago. The chef, who worked at the Palmer House Hotel, created the brownie with an apricot glaze and walnuts. The Palmer House Hotel serves that same recipe to this day.

How To Celebrate

To be honest, the best way to celebrate this magical day is to enjoy an even more magical dessert. Rather than buying a box of brownie mix, which contains who knows what chemically processed ingredients, let’s change up the game and make some brownie-inspired recipes from scratch. Try making one of the following recipes and let us know how you like it.

Raw Vegan Brownie Bites

There’s no reason that healthy snacking has to be boring and tasteless. These brownie bites are decadent and wonderfully chocolaty.

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Raw Walnut/Almond Brownies

These raw brownies pack a lot of flavor, and you get that subtle hint of sea salt flavor. We strongly recommend adding the cinnamon, even though it’s optional.

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Raw Almond Fudge Brownie

If you have leftover almond pulp from making almond milk, don’t let it go to waste. Make this sultry raw chocolate fudge for dessert!

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Raw Banana Chocolate Nice Cream

Would a brownie be complete without a scoop of ice cream? We think not!  You don’t need processed ice creams when you can make tasty desserts like this!

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Bananas make a great base for homemade ice creams. The trick is to peel them and slice them before putting them in the freezer. Then you are ready to blend whenever you are craving a healthy dessert.

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