Mint Chocolate Chip Soft Serve is the perfect St. Patrick's Day treat! This mint-green ice cream is completely vegan and sugar-free.
Normally I'm not a huge mint chocolate chip fan, but honestly I'm loving this Mint Chocolate Chip Soft Serve. It's SO easy to make. Just throw a couple ingredients in the blender and you've got yourself a beautiful bowl of soft serve.
This ice cream is also healthy. I'm calling it soft serve because it is so smooth and creamy and, well, soft. This amazing texture comes from frozen bananas. There's no dairy involved, yet this soft serve still has an amazingly soft texture. I just wanna run my spoon through it.
Also, this soft serve has a natural green color. No food coloring! I love this. It's amazing how many beautiful colors we can create from real food. We don't have to use chemicals or dyes.
You have two options:
One. Spirulina
Two. Spinach
Both are great because they add color and nutrients, but not flavor. I promise!
Spirulina is a blue-green algae. It is a bacteria that is high in protein, filled with B vitamins, and high in other nutrients like copper and iron. It's considered a health food because of its high nutrient content.
You can get spirulina in pills or tablets, but for this recipe we'll use spirulina powder. Spirulina comes in two different colors - for this mint-colored recipe we'll use the traditional green spirulina. If you go to the store, you will most likely find green spirulina, so you don't need to worry about hunting down a specific color.
If you're a little concerned about putting algae in ice cream, don't worry. You can't taste it at all! It just turns the soft serve a beautiful mint color.
Alternatively, if you don't want to use spirulina or spinach, you can still make this recipe. You will just have soft-serve that isn't mint green. No big deal! It will still taste nice and minty.
Step 1. Take the bananas out of the freezer and allow to thaw for 5-10 minutes, so they become easy to blend.
Step 2. Add the bananas, spinach/spirulina, and mint/mint extract to a blender or food processor and blend until smooth, adding the non-dairy milk, if necessary to help blend.
Step 3. Add the chocolate chips and pulse to incorporate then transfer to a bowl OR spoon the mixture into a bowl and sprinkle the chocolate chips on top. Enjoy!
St. Patrick, pray for us!
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Mint Chocolate Chip Soft Serve is the perfect St. Patrick's Day treat! This mint-green ice cream is completely vegan and sugar-free.
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