Category: Snacks

Mango and Banana Nice Cream Sandwiches

Leave a comment

Hi! I promise that next week I’ll go back to savoury recipes, but I’m trying to cram all of these summer desserts in before fall;) I don’t think that you guys will be complaining too much anyways, because these ice cream sandwiches are pretty darn good. Mango and Banana Nice Cream is sandwiched between two date and cinnamon cookies, making the perfect treat👌. Hope you enjoy!

Mango and Banana Nice Cream Sandwiches

Serves: 3

Total Time: 60 minutes

Ingredients:

For the Cookies:

  • 8 small dates, pitted
  • 3/4 cup oat flour
  • 1/2 cup oats
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tbs cinnamon
  • 1 tbs chia seeds
  • 1/3 cup water

For the Nice Cream:

  • 1 small banana, frozen
  • 1 1/2 cups frozen mango
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 6 tbs water

Directions:

  1. Start by making the cookies. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. In a small bowl, combine the chia seeds and water. Let sit for about 15 minutes to form a chia “egg”.
  3. Meanwhile, in a blender, pulse the dates, oats, oat flour, vanilla, and cinnamon until combined.
  4. Dump the mixture into a bowl and add in the chia “egg”. Stir together until a dough forms.
  5. Spoon out a heaping tablespoon of dough and roll it in between your hands to form a ball. Place it on a parchment lined baking sheet and flatten so that it forms a small disc. Continue to do this with the rest of the dough, you should end up with 6 cookies (three sandwiches).
  6. Place the tray in the oven and bake for about 10-15 minutes, until the bottom of the cookies are golden brown. Remove from the oven, transfer to a small plate and place in the freezer to cool completely.
  7. While the cookies are baking, make the Nice Cream. Blend all of the ingredients in a blender until smooth. Place in a parchment lined bowl and put in the freezer while you wait for the cookies to bake and cool.
  8. When the cookies are completely cool, remove them and the Nice Cream from the freezer. Have a small parchment lined baking sheet ready. Scoop about a tablespoon of nice cream onto the flat side of three cookies. Place another cookie on top of each one to form a sandwich. Put the sandwiches on the baking sheet and move them to the freezer right away, before the Nice Cream melts.
  9. Let the sandwiches set in the freezer for about 30-45 minutes before serving.
  10. Enjoy!

Have a great weekend enjoying these sweet treats!

Yours Truly,

MyDayIsBooked;))

Chocolate Dipped Bananas

Leave a comment

You guys, I literally thought that it was Sunday today! Funny how summer does that to you🤣 So, as a kind of last minute post, I decided to whip up these chocolate dipped bananas. I’ve had dessert on the brain lately;) This frozen treat is pretty simple to whip up, although a bit messy. All you have to do is make some chocolate sauce, dip the bananas in it, then sprinkle them with nuts or other toppings and throw them in the freezer. You don’t really even have to freeze them if you don’t want, you can just eat them as is. Spoiler Alert: THEY’RE REALLY GOOD. Hope you enjoy;)

Chocolate Dipped Bananas

Serves: 4

Total Time: 60-75 minutes

Ingredients:

  • 2 bananas, slightly ripe
  • 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 1/4 cup maple syrup
  • 2 tbs coconut oil
  • 1 tbs water

Other:

  • 4 small skewers

Directions:

  1. In a small pot, mix together the cocoa powder, maple syrup and coconut oil. Bring to a simmer on the stove and stir until well combined.
  2. Remove the chocolate sauce from the heat once it’s reached a simmer. Add in the water and stir. The result should be a smooth sauce.
  3. Pour the sauce into a small bowl, or something that will be easy to dip the bananas into. Cut the bananas in half. Using your hands, dip the bananas into the chocolate sauce and then lay them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
  4. Stick a skewer into each banana and sprinkle with desired toppings.
  5. Eat as is or put the tray in the freezer for about 45 minutes to an hour.
  6. Remove the bananas from the freezer and enjoy!

I already know that there won’t be enough hot days left this summer to enjoy as many of these bananas as I want to🤧🤧 But I guess that eating a frozen dessert in the fall never killed anyone! See you guys on Wednesday;)

Yours Truly,

MyDayIsBooked;)))

Carrot and Apple Muffins

Leave a comment

Hi guys! As much as I hate to think about it, summer is coming to an end, and that means that I need to start stocking my freezer with food for the new school year! These muffins are super moist and tasty, made with grated carrot and apple, as well as some banana for sweetness. They’re sugar free as well, making them a great healthy snack;) The batch that I made went straight into the freezer after they cooled off, so that I can just throw one in my lunch bag and it’ll thaw throughout the day. Honestly though, I’m not sure that they’ll last until September. Here’s the recipe!

Carrot and Apple Muffins

Serves: Makes 9 Muffins

Total Time: 70 minutes

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup grated carrot
  • 1 grated apple
  • 1 ripe banana
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tbs olive oil (or oil of your choice)
  • 1 1/2 cup oat flour
  • 1 cup oats
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees farenheit.
  2. In a large bowl, mash the banana, then add in the grated carrot, apple, vanilla, and oil. Stir until well incorporated.
  3. In another bowl, mix together the oats, oat flour, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon.
  4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until a batter forms. It won’t be very runny, but this is normal.
  5. Scoop the muffin batter into a muffin tin lined with paper liners. Bake the muffins for about 40-50 minutes. I like to break one open and check the inside to see if it’s done. With these muffins, they’ll still look a bit raw in the middle after the 40 minutes are up, but if you leave them to cool completely then they’ll firm up a bit.
  6. Enjoy!

Hope you like this muffin recipe! It can easily be doubled if you want to make a larger batch;))) See you Friday.

 

Yours Truly,

MyDayIsBooked;)))

Apple and Peanut Butter Granola

2 Comments

Hi guys! I haven’t done a breakfast recipe in a while, and so I’d thought I’d share this Apple and Peanut Butter Granola. One of the first food posts on my blog is a homemade granola, and it’s pretty good, but when it comes to this recipe, I have one word for you; CLUSTERS! The mixture of mashed banana, peanut butter and vanilla creates more of a sticky “batter” when mixed with oats, and allows for big, delicious clusters to form. I also added in some apples and sunflower seeds, which give sweetness and earthiness. This granola would be great on top of smoothie bowls, yogurt, or simply with some almond milk.

Apple and Peanut Butter Granola

Serves: 4-6

Total Time: 40 minutes

Ingredients:

  • 2 ripe bananas
  • 1/2 cup creamy natural peanut butter
  • 1 tbsp vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups oats
  • 1/2 cup sunflower seeds (or chopped nuts of your choice)
  • 1 apple, diced

Directions:

  1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit
  2. In a large bowl, mash the bananas and mix them with the peanut butter and vanilla.
  3. Add in the oats, sunflower seeds, and diced apple.
  4. Mix until the dry ingredients are coated in the peanut butter and banana mixture.
  5. Spread out the granola on a parchment lined baking sheet.
  6. Bake for about 15 minutes, then take out of the oven and stir around the granola, staring to separate the clusters.
  7. Place back into the oven until the granola is golden brown.
  8. Enjoy!

Hope you like this easy breakfast recipe! It should keep in the fridge for about a week and a half, so it’s great for meal prepping;) I’ll see you next week with more great summer posts!

Yours Truly,

MyDayIsBooked;)

Neapolitan Nice Cream

Leave a comment

Hello everyone! Summer is here and I’m craving some sweet treats! So I brought out my blender and made some delicious Neapolitan Nice Cream😋. Nice Cream has a texture and taste similar to ice cream, but it’s generally made with frozen bananas. It’s light and refreshing, perfect for a hot summer day! This Nice Cream is super easy to make, and only requires 4 ingredients (not including water) to make all three flavours; vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. Make sure you give yourself time before serving to freeze your ingredients, as well as the final product. Here’s the recipe!

Neapolitan Nice Cream

Serves: 3-4

Total Time: 4 hours

Ingredients:

  • 6 medium bananas
  • 6 strawberries, washed
  • 1 tbs vanilla extract
  • 2 tbs unsweetened cocoa powder
  • Water

Directions:

  1. Chop up the bananas into round slices, keeping each banana separate. Split them evenly into three ziploc bags; two chopped bananas per bag. This is so that you can make each flavour of Nice Cream separately.
  2. Remove the stems from the strawberries and cut them into small slices. Put them in with one of the bags of bananas. This bag will be for the strawberry Nice Cream.
  3. Place all of the bags in the freezer, and freeze for at least 3 hours, or until all of the fruit is completely frozen.
  4. Once the strawberries and bananas are frozen, remove the bags from the freezer.
  5. Empty one bag of just bananas into your blender, along with the 1 tbs of vanilla and one tbs of water. This is for the vanilla Nice Cream. Blend until a smooth texture forms. It should look something like this:
  6. Scoop out the Nice Cream from the blender and use it to fill up one third of a lined loaf pan. Put the loaf pan in the freezer while blending up the other flavours.
  7. For the strawberry flavour, empty the bag with the bananas and strawberries into the blender and blend until you reach the same consistency as the vanilla. Scoop it into the loaf pan to fill another third of it, then put it back into the freezer.
  8. Now it’s time for chocolate! Put the last bag full of bananas into the blender with the 2 tbs of cocoa powder and 1 tbs of water, and again blend until you reach that perfect consistency. Fill up the last third of the loaf pan with the chocolate Nice Cream.
  9. Place the loaf pan in the freezer for about 30-45 minutes before serving, to get the perfect texture. If your Nice Cream gets to hard, let it thaw on the counter for a bit before digging in. Enjoy!
  • I hope you like this healthy summer treat! To be honest, I think chocolate was my favourite flavour, but the other ones were great too:) I gave my dog a little scoop of the strawberry and he loved it! Have an awesome week😊😊🍦🍦

Yours Truly,

MyDayIsBooked;)