Three Ingredient Raspberry Peach Nice Cream is easy to make and healthy to boot. Gluten free and vegan, it takes frozen bananas, raspberries, and peaches, and blends them up into a creamy frozen dessert. Your kids won’t even know they’re eating “just fruit”.
Okay people, you asked for it so here it is. A raspberry nice cream recipe. And not just any raspberry nice cream recipe, but a raspberry peach nice cream recipe.
What’s Nice Cream?
Nice cream is basically frozen bananas that have been blended into a mixture similar to the consistency of soft serve ice cream. It tastes very similar to ice cream, but without the dairy or added sugar.
Why is it Called Nice Cream?
I searched around on this for an absurdly long amount of time to figure out just why it’s called ‘nice cream’. From what I read, there are three schools of thought on this:
1. Nice cream is a shortened form of banana (or ‘nana) ice cream, taking the beginning ‘n’ in the short form of banana and adding it to ‘ice’.
2. Nice cream is a shortened form of vegan ice cream, this time taking the ending ‘n’ off vegan and adding it to ‘ice’.
3. Nice cream was named such as it is ‘nicer’ (aka healthier) for your body (and some say the cows and planet) than regular ice cream.
Now that we’ve had a brief history lesson, on to the good stuff.
How to Make Raspberry Peach Nice Cream
This is a really simple recipe, with essentially three steps. Add the frozen fruit to the blender. Blend until it’s all smooth. Scoop it out and eat it.
Of course there’s a little more to it than that.
If you’re not starting with frozen bananas (which this recipe assumes you’re not), you’ll need to peel them, slice them up, and freeze them. You’ll want to keep your bananas in the freezer until they’re frozen solid. This takes roughly 2 hours, though overnight is better.
Once all your fruit is frozen, dump it in your blender (or food processor) and start to blend. If you don’t have a great blender (which I don’t), this will take some effort on your part. You’ll need to use a spatula or wooden spoon (or other utensil) to scrape the sides down and keep the mixture blending.
Resist the urge to add a liquid to help the blending! It will make your raspberry peach nice cream thinner, which means less ice cream-like and more smoothie-like.
You’ll know when it’s done blending because it will look like the consistency of soft serve ice cream. See the picture below on the far right. That’s what it should look like.
You can also check out this post, with a video, from The Kitchn to see what it should look like with just bananas.
When it’s done blending you can either eat it right away (though it will be on the soft side), or stick it in the freezer for an hour or two to harden up a bit. Totally up to you.
Still need more dessert ideas? I get you, you’re my kind of people. Here you go:
- Simple Summer Berry Paleo Parfait
- Crustless Banana Cream Pie Cups
- Cranberry Orange Dark Chocolate Bark
- White Chocolate Candied Lemon Slices
A couple of last things to note:
1. You want to use very, very ripe bananas. As in, mostly brown on the outside. Of course you don’t want them to go rotten, but they should be over ripe.
2. If you want the nice cream to be more like the texture of regular ice cream (not soft serve), it will need at least an hour in the freezer, likely longer. I froze mine for two hours (in the blender cup because I’m lazy) and it still wasn’t quite as hard as I wanted. But I ate it because I was losing patience.
3. If you want more nice cream recipes, there are a bajillion resources out there. Some of the better ones I’ve found are at Pop Sugar and Chocolate Covered Kate.
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Three Ingredient Raspberry Peach Nice Cream
Ingredients
- 2 over-ripe bananas
- 1 cup frozen raspberries
- 1 cup frozen peach slices
Instructions
Items Needed:
- A knife
- A cutting board
- A large ziploc bag or other airtight container
- A blender
- A measuring cup
- A spatula, wooden spoon, or regular spoon
Directions:
- Peel the bananas and cut them into even slices using the knife and cutting board.
- Place the banana slices in the airtight container and freeze at least 2 hours (overnight is better), until frozen solid.
- When ready to make the nice cream, toss the bananas in the blender.
- Using the measuring cup, measure out one cup each of the frozen raspberries and frozen peach slices. Add both to the blender with the bananas.
- Blend all of the fruit together. Use your utensil of choice to help the blending process. You will need to scrap down the sides of the blender multiple times to make sure everything gets blended.
Notes
– The nice cream can be eaten right away, though it will be soft. Store in the freezer in a container to let harden.
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