Ice cream for breakfast anyone? Then this one is just for you. A Peanut Butter Banana Ice Cream Sandwich, you can just grab out of the freezer on those super hot mornings.
Course Breakfast OR Dessert
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
FREEZING TIME 2 hourshours
Total Time 11 minutesminutes
Ingredients
FOR THE PEANUT BUTTER BANANA ICE CREAM
3largeripe bananas
3tablespoonspeanut butterI used sugar and salt free peanut butter
FOR THE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
¾cup/ 170g butter or margarine
½cup/ 100g brown sugar
¾cup/ 190g peanut butter
3tablespoons/ 45ml milk
1tablespoon/ 15 ml vanilla extract
2cups/ 240g all purpose / cake flour
½cup/ 70g oats
1teaspoonbaking soda
½teaspoonsalt
¼cup/ 60 ml buttermilk
Instructions
FOR THE PEANUT BUTTER BANANA ICE CREAM
Cut the bananas into small chunks and freeze until solid, at least 1-2 hours. SEE NOTE 1
Place the bananas into a blender and blend until smooth and creamy. This will take a few minutes. You may have to stop the blender to scrape the sides using a spatula. Close the blender and Continue blending until you see a smooth texture.
Add the peanut butter. Pulse the blender to incorporate the peanut butter. Empty out into a container and freeze for 1 to 2 hours.
FOR THE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
Cream butter or margarine, brown sugar, peanut butter together by hand or with hand mixer until smooth and blended.
Add milk, vanilla and buttermilk.
Mix well.
Sift dry ingredients together and add to batter slowly, mixing well.
Roll into approximately 1 inch balls and flatten with a fork.
Bake at 375°F / 180°C for about 10-12 minutes.
Do not overbake as it will continue to crisp and bake when removed from the oven. Remove from the oven and leave on the tray for 5 minutes. Using a spatula transfer the cookies to a cooling rack and allow to cool completely.
ASSEMBLE THE ICE CREAM SANDWICHES
After about 2 hours, the peanut butter and banana mix should resemble ice cream. Remove it from the freezer and place spoonfuls of the ice cream on one side of the cookie. Sandwich with another cookie and drizzle with chocolate or sprinkle chopped nuts if you like. Now just place the sandwiched cookies in the freezer to harden up a bit, should be about 15 to 30 minutes.
Notes
I usually just freeze the bananas for an hour because my blender is not very powerful. I don't want the blender to crack when blending the bananas. So the bananas are cold just not fully frozen at this stage.