Two minutes to healthy banana chocolate ice cream

So you may have picked up by now that I love a good dessert.  You should also have picked up that I detest recipes that contain more than five ingredients and if they take more than 20 minutes to make then there is no chance I am attempting it!

At the end of the day everybody is busy and although raw vegan cheesecakes decorated with delicate dried flowers look delicious, who the hell has time to make them?!  That is why for me the aim of the game is to help my clients reduce sugar cravings and help them make healthy alternatives that take no time at all and leave them with ZERO FEELINGS OF DEPRIVATION.  After all if you feel deprived healthy living is never going to last long term.

Soooo many people are ice cream addicts, but the sugar and fat overload leaves them feeling guilty and miserable.  So enter TWO INGREDIENT TWO MINUTE BANANA AND CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM.  It tastes like Mr Whippy but has zero fat or added sugar. Winning!

 

Banana and raw chocolate ice cream

Makes enough for 2

3 x skinless frozen bananas
1 x tablespoon of raw cacao (you can use cocoa if you do not have cacao, but there are numerous health benefits of cacao)

Put the bananas and cacao into a high speed blender.  Whizz until smooth and creamy.  Even more delicious topped with berries or nuts.

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Homemade summer ice lollies

I have a confession to make. I don’t really like ice cream. There I said it, now bite me. (Just to note, as controversially, I also dislike Beyoncé, people have serious issues with this fact for some reason)

So I thought I would tackle making my own dessert using Greek Yoghurt which is high in protein and healthy fats.

After the banana strawberry yoghurt failure that was this…

I thought I might have to reel it in and go for something a bit less, well, phallus shaped!

This was the result…

Slight improvement wouldn’t you agree?? Although I must admit the banana yoghurt combo tasted incredible!

SUMMER BERRY ICE LOLLIES

In order to make these you need Tupperware ice lolly moulds. You can get them from Lakeland or Amazon.

Because I don’t know how big your moulds are it’s going to be hard to give quantities, so you might have to wing it a bit! Don’t worry you can handle this.

Ingredients

– Greek yoghurt (do me a favour and don’t even consider going low fat. The fat is replaced with sugar. Now put it down)

– Strawberries

– Berries of your choosing (I went for raspberries and blueberries but you can use whatever you have in your fridge or even just more strawberries)

Now what to do?

Blend a handful of strawberries with enough Greek yoghurt to fill your moulds.

Place your berries of choice into your moulds.

Pour the Greek yoghurt on top of the berries.

Place the lollie sticks into the mixture and then freeze for an hour or until they are hard.

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