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This Weight Watchers ice cream recipe has all the delicious flavor you are looking for without the added fat, sugar, or points. WW Ice Cream is a quick and easy homemade ice cream made with chocolate and bananas!
Sometimes called banana ice cream or “nice cream” because it’s a healthy alternative, this easy recipe has all the flavors and texture to satisfy your urge without the guilt.
This recipe will satisfy your sweet tooth for sure. Naturally sweet, bananas are a great way to add some sweetness while still being sugar free.
Whether you eat this out of a bowl or turn it into mini ice cream sandwiches or even ice cream bars, you can enjoy this delicious treat while losing weight.
I love making this skinny treat instead of looking for a store bought product with the lowest Weight Watchers points, like Halo Top. This has fewer ingredients and doesn’t require a trip to the store.
Ingredients for this recipe
- Ripe Bananas (frozen bananas if you can!)
- Almond milk
- Vanilla extract
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
Directions:
This is a super easy recipe–the most time consuming part is the time it takes to freeze!
- Blend Add ripe bananas, almond milk, vanilla extract, and cocoa powder to your food processor or blender. Blend on high for about one minute until everything is creamy and smooth.
- Freeze Transfer your ice cream to a freezer safe dish and freeze for an hour or until ice cream has hardened. This time varies based on your freezer and the container you use to freeze.
Recipe tips and questions
- Thinly slice your bananas, place them on a cookie sheet, and freeze for 30 minutes before adding to the food processor. This way you can eat your ice cream immediately. Sliced bananas freeze faster than full bananas or the entire bowl of ice cream.
- You may need to stop your food processor and scrape the sides a couple times. This makes your ice cream really creamy and removes all chunks.
- Start with less cocoa powder and adjust flavor to your liking.
- You can substitute any nut milk you prefer, just double check your points.
- Need something more? Add a few chocolate chips, some peanut butter, or even some Cool Whip on top of this dessert! Of course, recalculate your points after.
- Looking for more of a vanilla ice cream flavor? Skip the chocolate in this recipe. You’ll still taste bananas, though–fyi.
- Your serving size will depend on the size of the bananas you use. For the most accurate counts, divide the entire recipe in half after making it and count that as 2 servings.
- Yes, this is a vegan recipe!
Add some of these toppings to your ice cream for a filling sundae!
We love adding low fat chocolate graham crackers, fat free whipped cream, fresh fruit, frozen non-fat Greek yogurt covered berries, 100 calorie packs of almonds, or a tablespoon of peanut butter.
Weight Watchers Points
This recipe fits into a low calorie diet because it’s made with minimally processed foods. For a well-rounded eating plan, take into account ingredients and all nutritional information in the foods you’re eating–not just calories and points.
Protein amount, calcium, saturated fat, sodium, and daily fiber amount are all important to your nutrition goals.
Each of the two servings of this Weight Watchers homemade ice cream, count as 1 2025 Point | 2 2023 Points | 1 Blue Plan Point | 1 Green Plan Point |1 Purple Plan Point.
I calculated the point value for this recipe based on the product label of my ingredients, not using nutritional information. WW has said this is the most accurate information to use to calculate points.
If you’re looking for more recipes for your plan, I’ve got them:
Blue Plan Recipes | Green Plan Recipes | Purple Plan Recipes | 2023 Points
More Weight Watchers Dessert Recipes
- Weight Watchers Buckeye Recipe
- Instant Pot Lava Cake Bites
- Weight Watchers Lemon Bars
- Weight Watchers Cheesecake
Weight Watchers Chocolate Ice Cream
Equipment
- Round Ice Cream Tub
- Food processor
- Ice Cream Tub
Ingredients
- 3 banana sliced and frozen, or you can freeze it all after!
- ¼ cup almond milk unsweetened
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
Instructions
- Add bananas, almond milk, vanilla extract, and cocoa powder to your food processor. Blend on high for about a minute until everything is creamy, and smooth. 3 banana, ¼ cup almond milk, 1 tsp vanilla, 4 tbsp cocoa powder
- Transfer your ice cream to a freezer safe dish and freeze for an hour or until ice cream has hardened.
Notes
Nutrition
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This has as many calories. More carbs and sugar than real ice cream. How does this help with weight loss?
Thanks for your question. More than calories in vs calories out, weight loss is about the TYPES of calories you eat. The calories, carbs, and sugar in this recipe come mainly from the bananas. Bananas are high in natural sugars, calorie dense, and thus, higher in carbs.
Comparing this to Hood Chocolate Ice Cream, a popular store bought brand (ingredients: MILK, CREAM, SUGAR, NONFAT MILK, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, WHEY, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, GUAR GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM, POLYSORBATE 80 AND CARRAGEENAN), one serving has 190 calories, 20 grams of sugar, and 24 grams of carbs. The banana ice cream that this recipe makes has 138 calories, 15 grams of sugar (none added, it’s all natural sugar), and 33 grams of carbs.
This isn’t a weight loss ice cream.
It’s just a healthier alternative to full fat chocolate ice cream you could get from the store, and it helps you stay on track, while still letting you splurge on some sugary goodness.
Codi, nicely said.
I absolutely love this ice cream! Not only
does it satisfy by craving for chocolate but it’s so easy to make. I buy the frozen banana slices from the store so it only take me 3-5min total to make this! Will be making this for years to come.
Can regular milk be used in place of almond milk?
Yes! It would just change the points/calories :)