Everyone deserves a little treat and what better treat is there than cool, creamy custard?Personally I love ice cream, every single flavor, well except plain vanilla - it's just so vanilla! Trust me when I say that I have tasted them all. My first job at 14 was scooping ice cream at a little pink parlor called Yasgurs Farm, wearing tie dye everyday and building up serious forearm muscles. I did that until I was 17, making minimum wage and enjoying the endless variety of flavors that came our way.

A few tips, peach yogurt is awesome when you dip pretzels in it, blue smurf turns your mouth blue, so don't eat it if you don't want evidence, rum raisin has a really strange consistency, what a weird flavor, sprinkles are great on everything, and pickles and ice cream is actually really good!

Now that I have declared my love for this creamy confection its time to confess that as I have become a little older and perhaps wiser, ice cream can on occasion be a little too sweet and sugary and can contain a little too much dairy but not to worry! Nice Cream has the very same consistency, a fraction of the calories and fat, only natural sugar and absolutely no dairy!

You might be saying, well what is Nice Cream? Nice cream is simple a single ingredient, Frozen Bananas! All that you do is take some frozen bananas, place them in a food processor or blender and process for five minutes until the consistency of soft serve develops. Then you can toss in a variety of mix-ins, enjoy as is or place it back in the freezer for the famous hard ice cream scoop.

This awesome flavor is based on the Almond Joy and has coconut mixed in along with dark chocolate cover almonds and oh boy was it delicious! So instead of using up those ripe bananas in bread, freeze them and try some Nice Cream!

Dark Chocolate, Almond and Coconut (Almond Joy Nice Cream

Makes 1 pint

4 Frozen Bananas

1/2 cup Coconut (I used Desiccated Unsweetened Coconut)

1/2 cup Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds, chopped

1/4 cup Dark Chocolate, Chopped

1/4 cup Raw Almonds, Chopped

In a food processor or blender (a food processor works better for this but a blender will do) add the frozen bananas. Process for about 5 minutes. The bananas will go through a variety of stages. They will first look crumbly, then like oatmeal, then slightly gooey but chunky and then will finally start to look like soft serve. Keep scraping down the bananas until they get to the soft serve consistency. At that point add in your mix-ins and pulse to combine.

You can enjoy at this point if you like a soft ice cream or you can place in an airtight container and freeze until hardened into regular ice cream consistency. Scoop and Enjoy this healthy frozen treat! You could even eat nice cream for breakfast topped with chopped fruit if you wanted to.