{"id":12230,"date":"2010-10-14T06:36:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T10:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=12230"},"modified":"2012-10-24T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T21:45:53","slug":"frozen-pumpkin-dessert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/10\/frozen-pumpkin-dessert\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Pumpkin Dessert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Pumpkin_Frozen_Dessert.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12231\" title=\"Frozen Pumpkin Dessert\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Pumpkin_Frozen_Dessert-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Pumpkin_Frozen_Dessert-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Pumpkin_Frozen_Dessert.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We eat a lot of bananas in this house.\u00a0 So much, that I&#8217;m pretty much convinced the grocery store checkout clerks find us a bit bizarre as we pile up at least 5 bunches of bananas.<\/p>\n<p>They get used in oatmeal and frozen ones get used in smoothies.\u00a0 Rocky also gets a frozen one every night in his kong for his bedtime snack.\u00a0 We eat them a lot!\u00a0 So it&#8217;s a good thing we love bananas.<\/p>\n<p>When I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choosingraw.com\/this-post-will-change-your-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gena&#8217;s tip for using frozen bananas<\/a> to make a soft serve style dessert I was intrigued and knew immediately that we would love it.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve had frozen banana dessert a bunch of times now, our favorite way using chocolate soymilk and peanut butter.<\/p>\n<p>I know, it&#8217;s pretty much heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Being that it&#8217;s fall, it was only a matter of time before I tried my hand at using pumpkin in this dessert.<\/p>\n<p>I used to be in love with pumpkin ice cream.\u00a0 It was my very favorite flavor!\u00a0 Then I started becoming more aware of ingredients and what exactly I was putting into my body.\u00a0 Sadly the majority of pumpkin ice cream out there (<a href=\"http:\/\/jenisicecreams.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeni&#8217;s excluded obviously<\/a>) has a ton of crap in it.\u00a0 I stopped buying it and became a very sad Andrea.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Andrea&#8217;s Frozen Pumpkin Dessert <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4\u00a0 Frozen bananas<\/li>\n<li>1\/2C Pumpkin Puree<\/li>\n<li>1\/2C-1C Vanilla Soymilk (or nondairy milk of choice, or milk)<\/li>\n<li>1\/4tsp Ground Cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>1\/4tsp Ground Clove<\/li>\n<li>Pinch brown sugar (really small pinch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Break frozen bananas up into chunks or at least cut them in half.\u00a0 In a food processor or heavy duty blender if you have it, add all ingredients. Start with 1\/2 cup of the soymilk.\u00a0 Blend until smooth and creamy.\u00a0 You might want to start the process with a few pulses first and then let it go for a bit.\u00a0 If it starts getting too thick on you and won&#8217;t blend, add in some more of the soymilk.\u00a0 Slowly until it starts moving again and blending.<\/p>\n<p>Dish up into ice cream bowls and serve immediately!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Pumpkin_Frozen_Dessert2.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12232\" title=\"Frozen Pumpkin Dessert \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Pumpkin_Frozen_Dessert2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Pumpkin_Frozen_Dessert2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Pumpkin_Frozen_Dessert2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>You can see that this makes two HUGE bowls of &#8220;ice cream&#8221;.\u00a0 It tastes exactly like pumpkin ice cream.\u00a0 It <em>is<\/em> made with bananas, so the banana flavor is there but with the pumpkin and spices, you hardly notice it.\u00a0 It tastes like fancy pumpkin soft serve.<\/p>\n<p>I ate everything in my bowl and then licked it clean.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful with the amount of cinnamon you add.\u00a0 Cinnamon in large quantities can come across spicy with heat to it.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t want this in pumpkin ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Now go make yourself a bowl!<\/p>\n<p><em>Have fun guys, and remember, always play with your food!\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We eat a lot of bananas in this house.\u00a0 So much, that I&#8217;m pretty much convinced the grocery store checkout clerks find us a bit bizarre as we pile up at least 5 bunches of bananas. They get used in oatmeal and frozen ones get used in smoothies.\u00a0 Rocky also gets a frozen one every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[37,84],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3bg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}