I used to make this for my Girls in the summer; using your own home-grown strawberries makes it even better, as you know they haven't been treated with anything but love. 

Home-made Vegan  Strawberry Nice-cream

Ingredients

•  4 Ripe bananas, frozen slices- perfect for using up any that are getting too ripe 

•  1/2 cup of sugar

•   Strawberries: I used a small carton's worth I would say, but we grow them in the garden

•  1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence

• Coconut or Oat milk to loosen up the nice-cream

The How to Bit

1. First, freeze your banana slices overnight - I just chop them up every time we have overripe ones and pop them in the freezer- great for smoothies, ice cream, and in recipes like Banana Bread 

2. Place frozen banana slices and 2 tablespoons unsweetened oat or Coconut milk into a high-speed food processor or blender.

3. Blend on high for 1 to 2 minutes, stopping to scrape the sides every so often.

4. If your blender is having a hard time blending the bananas, add more almond milk by the tablespoon.

5. Once pureed together, your banana nice cream should be like a super thick smoothie or soft serve. Option to eat immediately or to transfer to a parchment-lined bread pan to freeze for later.

6. Freeze it like ice cream: Freeze banana nice cream for 1 to 2 hours so that it hardens enough to scoop like ice cream, but isn't too hard that you can't scoop it.

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy as my Dad is fond of saying :)