Healthy Ice Cream Sandwiches
You read that right: nutrition in an ice cream sandwich. Can you hear the ice cream truck tunes playing now?
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 2 hours
- Total Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup dried figs, roughly chopped (or dates)
- 1/2 c pistachios, without the shells (or almonds)
- 1/3 c peanut butter
- 2–3 medium bananas, cut into chunks & frozen
- unsweetened cocoa powder, optional
Instructions
- In a food processor, combine the figs, pistachios, peanut butter and cocoa powder (if using. I used about 1/4 cup. Start with a couple tablespoons, taste and add more if desired).
- Pulse until well combined into a crumbly dough.
- Transfer contents from food processor to a piece of saran wrap. Gather the edges of the saran wrap and squeeze dough into a ball.
- Wrap and place ball on a jelly roll pan. Use the saran wrap to press the dough flat on the pan, trying to make it an equal thickness all the way around.
- Cover with saran wrap and place in the fridge for 1-2 hours until chilled.
- Remove from fridge and cut into sandwich sized pieces of desired size. Make sure you have pieces are the same size so the tops and bottoms will be even.
- Place the dough pieces back in the fridge.
- Clean out the food processor, then add the frozen banana chunks to it. Process until a smooth ice cream/fro-yo consistency is reached.
- Get your sandwich pieces out, scoop some banana ice cream onto one sandwich piece. Top with another and press gently to flatten.
- Wrap each sandwich individually in saran wrap and place in the freezer until desired firmness is reached.
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