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Home » Desserts » Easy & Healthy Vegan Banana Fudgesicles (no Popsicle molds required!)

Easy & Healthy Vegan Banana Fudgesicles (no Popsicle molds required!)

September 3, 2013 By Shannon @ Yup, it's Vegan 13 Comments

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Here’s my sitch with bananas: I really enjoy eating one in the morning with my oatmeal, but I’m super picky about the ripeness level. They need to have no green left, but no brown yet. It’s a textural thing, and they also start to get too sweet for my taste if I wait too long to eat them.

Vegan banana fudgesicles

But as you have probably heard elsewhere on the internet, frozen/ripe bananas take on properties that are borderline magical. They provide natural, whole-food sweetness. They get insanely smooth and creamy while also having body. My love.

So ever since I learned this trick, instead of throwing out the bananas that are too ripe for me, I wait for them to be mostly brown, and then pop them in the freezer, peel and all. It doesn’t get much easier than that!

If you, too, are hoarding ripe bananas in your freezer, and are suffering a chocolate craving, you can be eating these fudgesicles in less than an hour from now, since they call for only three other required ingredients, all of which you probably have on hand. Best of all, they do, of course, work in a Popsicle mold, but a Dixie cup and a stir stick (or two) will get the job done just fine. Here’s how!

Easy & Healthy Vegan Banana Fudgesicles
These exact ingredient quantities made 5 Dixie cup-size fudgesicles, at just 50 plant-strong calories each. The recipe is easily scaled.

2 ripe bananas from the freezer, peels removed (unfrozen bananas will work; freezer time will increase)
3 tb unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup plain, unsweetened nondairy milk, preferably almond
1/4 tsp salt (NOT optional)
Optional ingredients: 1/2 tsp vanilla (brings out sweetness), 1 tb clear liquor (makes them a bit softer), added sweetener to taste (I did not need!), 1 tb ground psyllium husk (helps the ingredients gel more)
Dixie cups (5), or Popsicle molds (??)
Stir sticks or Popsicle sticks (wooden get the least cold)

Give it a whiz and then twiddle your thumbs. In a blender or food processor, combine all ingredients, including optional ingredients if using. Distribute into cups, filling about 2/3 to the top, and place a stir stick, or two bundled stir sticks, in the center sticking up. Since the banana was already frozen, the sticks should stay in place. If not, set your timer for 20 minutes into the freezing process and adjust the stir sticks at that time.

After about an hour, these treats will be frozen enough to enjoy (if you started from frozen banana). For a firmer texture, freeze longer. Eat ASAP, within a couple of days.

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Vegan banana fudgesicles

I used my Dinosaur fun facts Dixie cups…

Vegan banana fudgesicles

You can peel the cup right off when it’s time to enjoy your treat.

Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: chocolate, gluten-free, grain-free, nut-free, oil-free, plant-strong, refined sugar-free, soy-free, sweetener-free

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Comments

  1. creativespin says

    September 6, 2013 at 04:43

    Thanks for this recipe. We’ve been making paletas at our house. Getting the last licks in before summer ends!

    Reply
  2. Renée ♥ says

    September 5, 2013 at 23:29

    I already have a freezer full of frozen bananas, so I’m halfway there already! Thanks! (Stopped by from the MoFo Blogroll)

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    • shanbogen says

      September 5, 2013 at 23:47

      thanks for visiting! what a lovely blog you have, too 🙂

      Reply
  3. mamachandra says

    September 4, 2013 at 15:50

    You’re brilliant. My 5 year old daughter loves her banana ‘ice cream’ where I just let her mash up a frozen banana and put some chocolate chips or vegan sprinkles on it and send her on her way. She LOVES chocolate things tho and this is WAY better than freezing chocolate almond milk. Thanks for posting this. Happy MoFo’ing!

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    • shanbogen says

      September 4, 2013 at 15:59

      i doubt i’m the first person to come up with it, but it sure is delicious – bananas do awesome things. thanks for visiting 🙂

      Reply
  4. Mandee says

    September 4, 2013 at 00:51

    I love bananas and will eat them at any stage but this is a great way to use up really ripe ones and a perfect treat for the warm weather we’re having!

    Reply
  5. Kylie - FotV says

    September 3, 2013 at 23:18

    OMG, I have all those things in my kitchen and it’s been incredibly hot in L.A. – I am SO making these!! Thanks for sharing!!

    Reply
    • shanbogen says

      September 3, 2013 at 23:48

      yay! hope you like it!

      Reply
  6. the vegan kitchen of dr caligari says

    September 3, 2013 at 22:29

    I’ve just got new popsicle molds a couple of days ago and I need to try out your recipe. These fudgesicles do look so creamy and fresh!

    Reply
    • shanbogen says

      September 3, 2013 at 23:08

      thank you! I hope you enjoy 🙂

      Reply

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