..Life Changing Dessert Tricks

I am ice cream obsessed. I grew up in a household that allowed dessert after dinner almost every night and you know what was served 90% of the time? Ice cream. Fast forward 20 years and my love handles are made of solid mint chocolate chip. This is a huge hurdle for me in my attempts at staying on track and I recently learned about this amazing dessert trick that has saved me from taking the 1 minute walk to Frozen-Yo (blast the convenient location of my apartment!) on many craving fueled nights.   I keep a permanent supply of chopped bananas in my freezer at all times now for emergencies.  I am pretty sure I saw it for the first time on Melissa's website, Cupcakes OMG!, but I couldn't find the exact recipe in her archive so here's how I've been doing it (Melissa if you send me a link to your recipe I will post the link here).

Ingredients
1 chopped and frozen banana
1 tablespoon of almond milk
1 teaspoon almond butter (optional, I've done it without)
2 tablespoons (or however many you are comfortable with) mini chocolate chips

Directions
Blend bananas, almond milk, and almond butter in food processor until smooth.  Mix in chocolate chips and you've got a perfectly guilt free frozen treat.  Easy as that.  I also have done a variation where I added a teaspoon of coco powder instead of almond butter to make a chocolatey ice cream substitute.  The possibilities are really endless, you could add in some honey and nuts, nutella, or I hear strawberry quick mix makes a pretty good strawberry version.  Go to town on this people, it's just fruit after all :)  I was actually able to make a couple servings at once and freeze the leftovers if you are looking to save time.

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