Having a special diet can be hard. It means missing out on favorite treats and meals with friends. My daughter was recently put on an “elimination diet” to find out what foods she is allergic too and the list keeps growing. We’ve gotten strawberries, shellfish, any foods with gluten, and tomatoes. As the list of things she can eat grows smaller, I’ve been trying to find recipes that she could eat and enjoy. This recipe for Chocolate Peanut Butter “frozen yogurt” is dairy free and gluten free and the kids enjoyed it so score one for mom! Did I mention that it is so simple, taking about five minutes to prepare and doesn’t require an ice cream freezer?
While the recipe was supposed to have an ice cream type consistency, ours had more of a soft serve consistency. We tried the recipe several times and I think it works better with thicker, crunchy peanut butter because it gives it more flavor. If you aren’t concerned about sugar, use one of the flavored type peanut butters like chocolate and raspberry swirl. Yum! Also, be sure to peel the bananas before you freeze them because nonpeeled bananas=big mess.
- 2 bananas, frozen and broken into chunks
- 3/4 cup lowfat or all natural peanut butter
- 4 droppers of NuNaturals vanilla stevia
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- Add frozen bananas to blender and puree until smooth. Add peanut butter, NuNaturals, and unsweetened cocoa powder. Process until smooth. Pour into a bowl and place in freezer for two hours.
If you haven’t heard of NuNaturals, these products are developed to have no bitter taste like some sweeteners, are gluten free, have no msg and do not cause gas or digestive problems. The sweeteners are concentrated so only a small amount has to be used and the flavored varieties contain plant extracts.
What is your favorite lower fat treat?
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The dairy free caught my eye. Seems like it would be really thick to eat, good, but thick because your kindof eating a bowl of peanut butter with thickening agent banana in it. Going to,try because I am really curious how it will turn out.
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OMGosh I would have never thought to make this!! These are perfect ingredients – I have to try this!
yum- i love the combo of peanut butter and banana!
This is a fantastic recipe. I will be giving it a try!
What an interesting recipe. I’ve been seeing a lot of desert recipes using vanilla stevia. NuNaturals looks to be the way to go for natural products.
This is a great way to enjoy frozen yogurt. I love having healthier snack and dessert options like this one.
Elimination diets are sooooo hard! I hope you are able to figure it out quickly!
Wow, I can’t imagine how hard it is to be gluten-free and dairy-free. I think it would leave me with practically nothing to eat.. You’re a god-send for publishing recipes for people who are in the same type of diet!
My kids, especially my toddler would love this. She loves all the ingredients especially the bananas.
I’ve never heard of NuNaturals vanilla stevia. I’ll check to see if my store carries it. Thanks for sharing!
This looks fantastic. I am going to try this recipe
That looks creamy and super satisfying. Can’t wait to dig in with a spoon!
My daughter follows a vegan diet and this is totally being added to our list to try!
No chocolate for me. Looks delicious though
I honestly saw chocolate, dairy free and gluten free and I said…I have to try that! Thanks for sharing! Pinning asap so I can try this later!
What a great idea for a frozen yoghurt! I pinned this and I will surely try it out. Wish me luck it goes well 🙂
This sounds delicious!
This sounds delicious! I might have to give it a try. I wonder if it would work with almond butter?
I will have to try this out! Look super yummy! I have to do gluten free and no dairy.. so, this is perfect!
This looks awesome!
This would really hit the spot right now!! YUM
Looks good. I will pass this on to my daughter as she is gluten free.
That looks sooooo good. I can almost taste it!
This looks so delicious! Chocolate peanut butter is my absolute favorite!
This looks very very tasty! I will have to check out the NuNaturals stevia ~ makes eating sweets much easier.
I just got some NuNaturals vanilla stevia and think I’ll try this over the weekend. I love ice cream, but the calories in traditional ones can add up quick.
Now that’s a unique but yummy flavor combo. My kids love chocolate and peanut butter anything.
Perfect I did not see yogurt on the list of ingredients so I can make this one. I am such a big fan of NuNaturals, glad to see that is what you used.
Wow, this sounds great… I love the combination of chocolate and peanut butter and love that it is dairy and gluten free
This sounds so delicious! I love pb/chocolate combos.
Sounds like a delicious combination. Yum!
This is such a delicious idea! Love that it’s a healthier way to satisfy my craving for ice-cream.
What a unique yet yummy recipe. I bet my entire family would enjoy it!~
This sounds like a candy bar made in to yogurt! Yum.
I love ice cream and frozen yogurt, so any way I can eat more sounds good to me! You’re recipe looks really good and so easy to make!
Yummy! I love frozen yogurt! My favorite flavor is usually vanilla, loaded with tons of toppings.
Yum! I’ll bet I could even make this for my hubby and he wouldn’t know the difference…
this looks like a delightful treat idea!
This sounds really yummy and kid friendly too!
I will have to give this a try. Looks delish!
That looks yummy AND simple to make. My kind of treat!
Well this would work for protein for my Hubs while he is healing. The only thing I don’t have to make it is the bananas and I can get those when I go out tomorrow. Sounds so tasty.
This looks so good! I think the chocolate/banana/peanut butter combo was first made in heaven. 🙂
Now this SCREAMS My Name!!!!! Sounds like a wonderful combo of items to make a delicious treat!!!! Thanks for recipe!!
This looks much more simple to make than I would have expected. And yummy, too. Double win! Thanks for sharing.
That looks really good. My husband made a chocolate pudding the other night and it was delicious, looks like yours but pudding. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
This sound delicious! I Love Stevia! And it sweetens so nicely without a bad aftertaste! And I Adore Chocolate and peanut butter together. And you perfected it with a nice banana! Yum.
This is awesome! I was a total frozen yogurt junkie in college and haven’t really had a whole lot since (it’s always easier if it’s in a cafeteria). It looks like it will go great with my weight loss journey so I will have to give it a try! Thanks!
You had me at Chocolate Peanut Butter. I seriously didn’t even need to look any further to know that I wanted to make it ASAP 🙂
omg yummy and it’s low calorie and gluteen free how wonderful
I really like that it’s so simple to make! This would be delightful on a hot summer day.
looks easy enough to make, I haven’t seen this Toll House product before.
This sounds really good. I always buy bananas with good intentions but then don’t eat them fast enough. They end up in the freezer for smoothies. LOL
Wow, what a great idea and a way to get my one child who doesn’t like bananas to eat some! I’ll have to try this if I can find the NuNaturals?
This looks so good! We love frozen yogurt but always buy it. This is a better alternative!
This sounds delicious! I am going to pin this so I can remember it for later!
I don’t know who will like this better: my boys or me!
This looks yummy – I wish we have some stevia here so I can try this out – will try to check tomorrow!