Five minute ice-cream

What is the best dinner to feed a poor, sick child?  Ice-cream, of course.  I mean what would make a child happier than ice-cream for dinner?  And, as a parent, all you want to do is make that poor miserable child laying on the couch with rosy red cheeks do is... smile.  Just a teeny one.  And saying "Do you want some chocolate ice-cream for dinner?" will do it.



And this ice-cream is healthy, and easy on the tummy.

This is about the best idea ever.   I couldn't even wait to blog about it.  I read about it on Use Real Butter, thank you fellow Coloradoan!

What'll you'll need:

4 banana's, sliced and frozen
2 tablespoons of natural creamy peanut butter (optional)
1 tablespoon of cocoa powder (optional)


Put the frozen banana's in your food processor and blend until nice and creamy.   And, as a note I happened to have whole frozen banana's in my freezer, I do that when they go brown so I can use them later for banana bread.  I just peeled them, sliced them frozen and put them in the chopper - it worked fine.


Add the peanut butter and cocoa powder.


Done.


For added smiles, add sprinkles.


You could change this recipe up in so many ways too.  Nutella came to mind first.  Oh Nutella.  Or how about some strawberry preserves.  Apple pie filling.  Chocolate syrup drizzled over banana ice-cream.  Raspberries.  Chunks of chocolate.  


Dude, it's healthy ice-cream.  Healthy enough to feed to a sick kid.  For realz.