6. Rum and Raisin Banana Ice Cream
Finally, an ice cream Rated R…for Rum lol!! 🙂 The alcohol and raisin in this ice cream was delightful. It’s an ice cream meant to be enjoyed by adults who wish to sit back an relax….Actually while you’re having this one see your self in a hammock between two coconut trees looking out to the blue Caribbean Sea 🙂
Ingredients: Rum and Raisin Banana Ice Cream
2 1/2 cup ripe banana, chopped and frozen
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp almond essence
1/2 tsp coconut essence
9 tbsp condensed milk (or cream/ plain or flavored yogurt)
6 tbsp rum
1 1/4 cup raisins
Direction:
Soak the raisins in the rum overnight. Wrap and freeze the banana in plastic wrap. Unwrap frozen banana and place in a food processor or blender along with the other ingredients (except the raisins). Blend until smooth. Add the raisins and blend to chop. Freeze. Serve frozen.
Rum and Raisin Banana Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cup ripe banana chopped and frozen
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp almond essence
- 1/2 tsp coconut essence
- 9 tbsp condensed milk or cream/ plain or flavored yogurt
- 6 tbsp rum
- 1 1/4 cup raisins
Instructions
- Soak the raisins in the rum overnight. Wrap and freeze the banana in plastic wrap. Unwrap frozen banana and place in a food processor or blender along with the other ingredients (except the raisins). Blend until smooth. Add the raisins and blend to chop. Freeze. Serve frozen.
So that was my six tempting delicious and guilt free banana ice creams. They are filling, not too sweet and are really a great alternative to the commercial ice cream we often buy. They are also filled with ingredients that have little or no processing done to them. So, feel free to go ahead and try any one of these guiltless pleasures or make up some of your own. Of course, please share your version of banana ice cream on the site with us; we would love to hear about it.
Felix! This is an amazing, amazing post. Please believe me when I tell you that nothing is a coincidence! Right before I checked the site for new posts, I was looking up recipes for “vegan condensed milk recipes”! My Dad has asthma and should not use milk but is a lover of ice cream! I tell you Felix, nothing is coincidence! 🙂 I so look forward to subbing vegan condensed milk for the regular condensed milk to make these recipes! What do you think of combining bananas with real guava fruit?
DC that’s the type of creativity I’m talking about. Guava is a real companion to banana. I could taste it already 🙂
Felix, you know what I had years ago? Avocado ice cream. The only person I knew who made it was a lady who made it at home and sold it in front of her house years ago. I thought to myself “Zaboca ice cream, your’re kidding” but to this day this is one of my all time favorite food memories! Unfortunately I don’t see her around anymore. If she has “left us”, I hope she passed the recipe to someone in her family. I sometimes wonder how many wonderful recipes we have lost when the old people finally leave us. How many old creole dishes of yesteryear are just plain and simply gone? Well, nothing like inventing new dishes so I might just try banana and avocado and see how that turns out!!!
That Avocado ice cream seems like something worth hunting down. I’m up to it so I’ll start doing some digging on my side.
Felix – you know, come to think about it, one of my first cookbooks (all those years ago) was Beryl Wood’s “Caribbean Fruits and Vegetables”. “Yuh not findin’ dat book on de shelves again atall!”
I believe there may be an avocado ice cream recipe in that…i have to look it up and see if my memory serves me correctly when I get home…If there is one, I will post it here for you if you don’t mind?
Email me and I’ll get to work on it.