Chocolate & Peanut Butter Soft Serve Ice Cream
This Vegan Chocolate & Peanut Butter Soft Serve Ice Cream recipe is an easy and healthy way to enjoy frozen dessert with no added sugars. Make this dairy-free treat in 10 minutes or less!
On a hot day, there is just nothing more satisfying than a healthy frozen treat. I think you’ll agree that this Vegan Chocolate and Peanut Butter Soft Serve Ice Cream recipe fits the bill. It’s easy to make, it only takes 10 minutes, and it has no refined sugars.
Ingredients
The base of this healthy homemade soft serve recipe is frozen bananas and frozen mango chunks. You can use just bananas or just mango chunks, but the combination of the two is interesting. Using mango chunks also helps to make the banana flavor not as pronounced.
Recipe Steps
Step One
Combine the frozen fruit, peanut butter, vanilla extract, dates, almond milk, and cocoa powder in the bowl of a food processor.
Step Two
Lock on the lid and turn the processor on high. Let the food processor run for a minimum of 5 minutes. You can stop and scrape down the sides of the bowl, if necessary.
Step Three
Turn off the food processor and use a spatula to divide the chocolate soft serve between your serving bowls. Enjoy immediately.
Recipe Tips
- To make the chocolate soft serve easier to blend, be sure to freeze your bananas in slices. Here is a guide for how to freeze bananas.
- I have a lot of other recipes for traditional vegan ice cream, but this one is more like a soft serve. It gets made in a food processor so it only takes about 10 minutes from start to finish.
- Be sure to let the ingredients process for at least 5 minutes. It will seem like a long time to run a food processor, but it’s really the minimum to break down the frozen fruit into the soft serve texture we’re looking for.
- You’ll see in the recipe that I give the option to use cocoa powder or carob powder. I like to use carob powder when I’m going to serve this to kids or when I’m eating it later in the day. Carob powder doesn’t have any of the stimulatory effects that cocoa powder can have for some people.
FAQs
Yes, but a food processor is ideal for making homemade soft serve. It will be difficult to get the ingredients to process in a blender without adding extra liquid (which won’t result in the right consistency).
Yes, but you’ll need to add extra mango chunks and the soft serve won’t be as sweet.
Yes, absolutely! If you use almond butter instead of peanut butter, this will make this recipe paleo-friendly and nut-free.
Recommended Items
- Breville Sous-Chef food processor
- Organic vanilla extract
- Fair-trade, organic cocoa powder
- Carob powder
More Vegan Ice Cream Recipes
If you like this recipe, you might like some of my other dairy-free ice cream recipes (or check out my epic vegan ice cream round-up):
- Avocado Chocolate Ice Cream
- Dairy-Free Mango Ice Cream
- Strawberry & Vanilla Bean Nice Cream
- Vegan Pumpkin Ice Cream
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PrintVegan Chocolate & Peanut Butter Soft Serve
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Diet: Vegan
Description
This Vegan Chocolate & Peanut Butter Soft Serve Ice Cream recipe is an easy and healthy way to enjoy frozen dessert with no added sugars. Make this dairy-free treat in 10 minutes or less!
Ingredients
- 2 frozen bananas, broken into large pieces
- 1 cup frozen mango chunks
- 2 tablespoons peanut butter (use almond butter for paleo or nut-free diets)
- 4 pitted Medjool dates
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons to 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder or 2 teaspoons carob powder
Instructions
- Place: the frozen banana chunks, frozen mango, peanut butter, dates, vanilla, 2 tablespoons of almond milk and cocoa powder in the base of a food processor.
- Process: on high for 5 minutes, or until the mixture is creamy and fully combined. Add an extra 1-2 tablespoons of almond milk, if necessary, to get the right consistency.
- Serve: immediately.
Notes
- To make the soft serve easier to blend, be sure to freeze your bananas in slices. Here is a guide for how to freeze bananas.
- Be sure to let the ingredients process for at least 5 minutes. It will seem like a long time to run a food processor, but it’s really the minimum to break down the frozen fruit into the soft-serve texture we’re looking for.
- You’ll see in the recipe that I give the option to use cocoa powder or carob powder. I like to use carob powder when I’m going to serve this to kids or when I’m eating it later in the day. Carob powder doesn’t have any of the stimulatory effects that cocoa powder can have for some people.
- This recipe is best served immediately.
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Food processor
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: vegan banana soft-serve recipe, vegan ice cream, dairy free soft serve recipe
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I love how easy this vegan ice-cream is! Such a great idea and mango and banana sound like a yummy combination!
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I am definitely making this for me and my son! I am lactose intolerant so dairy-free ice cream is perfect for me.
We do frozen banana “nice” cream a lot for my kids, but I’ve never tried adding in mango chunks. I’ll have to give it a try!
Chocolate and peanut butter are my fiance’s favorite flavor combos! I love that this is vegan, as we are trying to be more conscious of what we consume. Can’t wait to try!
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I always have frozen bananas and now I know what to make! I love how easy and healthy this is. Thanks for this great recipe!
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Excellent flavor, my husband and I loved it! Didn’t quite get the same consistency, more liquid than your picture showed, but flavor was good.
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Great! I”m glad it turned out well, Cheryl!
Do you know how we can adjust to have more of an ice cream texture? Do we maybe need to freeze for a bit? More soupy than soft serve.
Yes, don’t use any almond milk whatsoever. And, you can freeze after blending to harden it up even more (but don’t freeze for more than a couple of hours or it will get too hard).