banana ice cream breakfast parfait

May 18, 2016 by Amanda @ .running with spoons. 44 Comments

Enjoy ice cream for breakfast with this deliciously healthy and customizable banana ice cream breakfast parfait! It’s gluten-free, vegan, refined-sugar-free, and straight up tastes like dessert.

I know what you’re thinking. How many different ways can this girl eat bananas and oats?!?

And the answer to that very legit question, my friends, is: a lot. A whoooooole lot of ways. In fact, I’ve made it my goal in life (one of them, anyway) to incorporate the banana oat combo into as many recipes as humanely possible, and I’m super excited to be sharing one of my current favourites with you today…

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Granted, I don’t normally dress mine up all nice and fancy, but the idea is basically the same.

Cool and creamy banana ice cream paired with warm (or cold) oats… only instead of throwing it all in a bowl and calling it breakfast, we’ve layered it in a glass to make a banana ice cream breakfast parfait, because everybody loves parfaits!!

Or so I’ve heard.

So let’s look a little closer at those layers, shall we?

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Layers 1 & 4 – oats. Nothing too fancy here; pretty much just your standard run-of-the-mill batch of cooked oatmeal. The only thing worth noting is that you can either cook the oats the night before and let them sit in the fridge overnight so that you can have ’em cooled, doughy, and ready to go in the morning, OR you cancook them in the morning and only cool them slightly so that they make the ice cream all melty. It’s your call! I personally prefer the overnight method, but that’s mostly because I don’t like warm food. I know.

Layers 2 & 5 – banana ice cream. Here’s where things get good! I mean, a bunch of blended bananas obviously won’t taste exactly like ice cream in the traditional sense, but we call them that anyways because the texture is surprisingly similar. And ice cream sells.

It’s super easy to make, too. All you need is one medium-ripe frozen banana and a high-speed blender or food processor. Yes, you can make it in a regular blender, but there’s definitely a noticeable difference and you probably won’t end up with the same fluffy creaminess. I know high-speed blenders are a bit of an investment, but I’ve had mine for almost 10 years and it still works perfectly after all that daily use. There are certain things I’ll never skimp on, and toilet paper and blenders are among those things.