This simple, vegan banana ice cream with cookie dough recipe has chunks of cookie dough! You’ll never believe it’s a healthy, gluten dairy, and refined sugar free summer treat!
I know. I KNOW.
BUT, have you seen it filled to the BRIM with chewy, sweet vegan cookie dough bites that explode in all-your-childhood-happy-memories in EVERY. SINGLE. SCOOP?
That’s what I thought.
This is one of those recipes that you almost feel guilty about posting in internet land because it’s just… so… EASY. Did I just see your eyeballs light up?
I guess I just really <3 cookies in their pre-baked form of life. I know you FEEL ME.
But then this awful thing happened: I GREW UP. This means that it is no longer social acceptable to consume copious amounts of sweet cookie dough swirled up inside icy, velvety-smooth ice cream on the reg’. See also: my jeans would not be down for this to be a regular occurrence either.
BUT, did you know that you can eat a banana for breakfast and no one will give judgey side-eyes?
You know where I’m going here.
This ice cream is made from bananas + peanut butter = breakfast food.
ALSO,like the cookie dough vegan banana ice cream bars and vegan chickpea cookie dough bowls, the cookie dough balls are made from chickpeas. Chickpeas are used in a wide variety of lunch or dinner options. Which MEANS, we may be even be so bold to say this this healthy remake of the classic kid-food covers ALL the meals that your hungry mouth has to eat during the day.
NAILED IT.
I do have a few pro tips for you, so that you can go from being a said, cookie dough ice cream-less person that walks the earth à someone that you can find roaming the earth, healthy ice cream IN HAND at any given meal time during the day.
Uh, YES PUHLEASE.
TIP 1: the quality of owning a high-powered blender is a quality that you must possess.
I am not going to be held responsible for any-and-all bad things that happen if you try to put frozen bananas in a regular, old blender or food-processor type dealio. There may be smoke. And you’ll be sad about it. Also make sure you follow the steps in how to freeze bananas
TIP 2: Freeze your cookie dough bites pre-mixing into frosty banana yumminess.
This will prevent you from the not-so-pretty outcome of mushy blobs of smashed, random brown-food hanging out inside your ice cream. We’ve got cookie dough BITE goals friend. Let’s make that happen.
TIP 3: Roll 2 cookie dough bites, eat 1 cookie dough bite.
Yes, rolling cooking dough into 1/4-inch, tinnnnny little balls takes a few minutes. Eating a few on your rolling journey helps this immensely. *winky face.*
TIP 4: Drizzle vegan caramel sauce all over your ice cream to make it even MORE DELICIOUS.
Now that you’ve been prepped, primed and equipped with ALL the tools to make your cookie dough ice cream dreams a reality, be prepared to be scoopin’, lickin’ and lovin’ alllll day long.
Really. All day. Like you might just eat it ALL at O-N-E time.
We know the “6-8” serving size is realllllly just a suggestion.
I also shared the Vegan Banana Ice Cream with Cookie Dough recipe on Food Fanatic, so be sure to check it out there!
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FOR THIS RECIPE, I RECOMMEND:
WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS PER SERVING: SMARTPOINTS: 6 POINTS+: 4. OLD POINTS: 2
(based off 8 servings)
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Want more frozen vegan desserts?
Salted Almond Joy No Bake Bars
Coconut Raw Cheesecakes with Chocolate Peanut Frosting
Berry Cashew Cream No Bake Bars
Vegan banana ice cream from around the web:
Toasted Coconut Chocolate Chip Nice Cream – Beaming Baker
Chocolate Banana Ice Cream – Happy Healthy Hunters
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Jennifer Dawn says
This looks so good! We’d be honored to have you share this at our weekly link party. http://www.thelifeofjenniferdawn.com/2016/07/diy-painted-projects-for-home-and.html Hope to see you there!
Taylor Kiser says
Thanks Jennifer!
Sarah @ Snixy Kitchen says
Love the shot of the bananas going into the blender! Also – cookie dough banana ice cream?? NEEEEED
Taylor Kiser says
Haha THANKS! Took my FOREVER to get right 😉
Julie @ Willow Bird Baking says
Pure genius! This looks incredible!
Taylor Kiser says
Thank you Julie!
Jenna says
Are there any substitutes for the peanut butter/ Peanut butter powder? I’m allergic to peanuts and I’m bummed out since Cookie dough ice cream is my absolute fav flavour of ice cream. Thanks
Taylor Kiser says
You can definitely use any other nut butter for the peanut butter! However, I REALLY can’t tell you about the powder, as the recipe was never developed any other way. You COULD try almond or oat flour, but I really can’t guarantee it will work/taste good. Hope that helps!
Brenda says
Could I use soaked cashew nuts in place of the bananas? And perhaps add a bit of maple syrup to sweeten the ice cream? I just don’t like the taste of bananas! 🙁
Taylor Kiser says
You try it if you’d like but recipes are only tested as written, so I have no idea what it would be like as that is a HUGE change! Let me know if you try!
Mario says
This looks like a great vegan, dairy, reduced sugar alternative, but I don’t see what makes this healthy.
Taylor Kiser says
Thanks! The ingredients I used to make this recipe are healthier than what you find in regular ice cream.
Tanith says
Hi, I love how this ice cream looks so tasty yet healthy! I must have to make this using my brand new food processor as it would be a much healthier alternative to ordinary cookie dough ice creams out there! 😉 I think I might have to call it B’nice cream! 😉 I just wanted to ask, do you have to put salt in this recipe? Can you use ordinary vanilla extract? And why do you need peanut butter powder? I would love to see more ice cream flavours on your site 🙂 like cacao and hazelnut healthy Nutella version, mint choc chip, coffee and walnut, maple and pecan or white chocolate and raspberry to name more than a few! Thanks for sharing this recipe. I might have to try some other ice cream flavours once I’ve tried yours first! 🙂
Taylor Kiser says
Hi! yes the salt really brings out the flavor and I wouldn’t skip it! Ordinary vanilla is just fine 🙂 Peanut butter powder helps make the texture, without it it will be too thin and regular peanut butter won’t work as a sub. Hope you love it! 🙂