No-Machine Chocolate-Banana Ice Cream

Name: No-Machine Chocolate-Banana Ice Cream
Yield: makes about 3 cups (750 ml)
Ingredients: 6 ounces (170 g) bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped; 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (280 ml) whole or low-fat milk; 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (280 ml) Irish cream liqueur, such as Bailey’s Irish Cream; 3 very ripe medium bananas, peeled and cut into chunks; 3 tablespoons (45 ml) dark rum

December 9, 2011

This is the world’s easiest ice cream. It takes literally a minute to put together, and doesn’t require an ice cream maker. You just toss everything in a blender, then pour the mixture into a container and freeze it, so there’s no excuse for even the machineless not to enjoy homemade ice cream. The one caveat is that the generous amount of alcohol is necessary to prevent the ice cream from freezing too hard. The good news is that all that booze means you don’t have to share your ice cream with the kids.

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