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Posted: May 25 2010 at 8:44am | IP Logged Quote Teachin'Mine2

Okay, healthy and ice cream together may be an oxymoron, but I'm looking for ideas of frozen desserts to make which have less fat and sugar than ice cream.   Of course, if you have a favorite traditional ice cream recipe, please share that as well.    

Has anyone tried using the mixed frozen fruit and making a smoothie concoction of some sort and putting that in the ice cream maker?   Anything that you've tried along these lines that didn't work?

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Posted: May 25 2010 at 8:51am | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom

I saw one I keep meaning to try that seems so simple, only, I can't seem to keep bananas around long enough, lol.

Take frozen ripe bananas and put them in the food processor. If you process it long enough, it whips air into it and makes a consistency that is like ice cream!

I would think you could put yogurt in an ice cream maker, too, but i've never tried it.

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Posted: May 25 2010 at 9:24am | IP Logged Quote SuzanneG

Do you have a Vita-mix or other super-power-blender? We make ice cream a lot with frozen fruit, milk, and sugar in our Vitamix! It's SO good!

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Posted: May 25 2010 at 9:43am | IP Logged Quote Mackfam

We use our Vitamix for ice cream too and LOVE IT! We use vanilla yogurt (Stonyfield Farms is our favorite brand) as our base and add fresh fruit or nutella for chocolate flavor.

Another absolutely FAVORITE summer treat around here is lemon ice - lemon, sugar, and ice blended in the Vitamix. SOOOOO REFRESHING!

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Posted: May 25 2010 at 3:41pm | IP Logged Quote Erin

Well perhaps not less fat but, mix a can of condensed milk and bottle of cream together. You can add strawberries or chocolate too. freeze once and ready to eat

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Posted: May 25 2010 at 3:45pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn

of course you could just take bananas and dip them in chocolate, roll them in nuts (optional) and freeze them.

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Posted: May 26 2010 at 10:29am | IP Logged Quote Teachin'Mine2

   No I don't have a Vita-Mix.   

But I do make smoothies in my Oster and it is beyond amazing!!!   I used this "blender" for the first time last night for that and the results were incredible compared to another "smoothie maker" we had tried.

I'm using the Cuisinart ice cream maker.    So far I've made vanilla ice cream using their recipe, which had way too much fat for my liking - it actually coated the tongue - yuck!   But then I used the same recipe only switched the volume of milk and cream and it came out really good.   I'm thinking of getting inventive with bananas and peanut butter (along with milk and maybe some cream and some sugar) and then mixing in chocolate chips, but I'm not sure how that would work.

What I'm curious is if I take frozen fruit and make a smoothie with milk and bananas and then put that in the ice cream maker, what the results would be.   Has anyone tried something like this?

Mackfam those sound good!!!   I wonder if the lemon ice, once made in the blender, could be put in the ice cream machine to make it into Italian ice that would keep in the freezer ...   

Thank you!   Lots of good ideas!   I like the idea of trying to use yogurt too.    

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Posted: May 26 2010 at 11:42am | IP Logged Quote SaraP

We love Lemon-Butternilk Sorbet and it is reasonably healthy, but make sure you use lowfat buttermilk. Made with the nonfat kind it comes out too icy and not creamy.

I also made this Banana Ice Cream recently and it was really good and very rich, so I would think you could sub whole milk for the cream and still have it turn out well.



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Posted: May 26 2010 at 12:54pm | IP Logged Quote Teachin'Mine2

Thank you Sara!   The lemon-buttermilk sorbet sounds like it's a winner based on the reviews.   I'll also use less sugar like many recommended.   Now I've got to buy buttermilk.    

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Posted: May 26 2010 at 1:18pm | IP Logged Quote Donna Marie

I think it is lots of fun to experiment with any kind of frozen fruit...you can add it to an ice cream recipe or just throw into the blender and make 'fake' icecream that way.

I can't have regular sugar right now, but I love to throw in a generous handful of frozen berries, fresh milk, and plain yogurt into the blender. It comes out so thick and rich I don't feel like I am missing anything! I sometimes throw in coconut milk or coconut oil and other citrus-y fruit to make it more tropical. mmmm

ok, now I am hungry. I can't make this until tomorrow night after we go shopping...and it is HOT here today...

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Posted: May 26 2010 at 1:56pm | IP Logged Quote JaysFamily

Have you ever tried to make ice cream from coconut milk? It's delicious!

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