Home Made Chocolate Gelato

You may recall a week or so back I reposted a recipe I saw online for some ice cream:
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups of walnuts
2 cups of water
1 cup of maple syrup or honey
2 dessert spoons of cacao powder
1 dessert spoon of vanilla extract (optional)
1/2 teaspoon of Himalayan or celtic sea salt (optional)
Well a week back I had a crack at it.
I forgot to add the water when I transcribed the recipe.
And we have a freezer full of very ripe bananas.
So two bananas went into the mix.
Made the first batch and Julie didn’t think it was anything special.
If anything a bit strong in the chocolate department.
Tried hazelnuts instead of walnuts in the next batch and halved the cacao.
Improvement but still no cigar.
I then used cashews, still with only one table spoon of cacao.
Better still.
Then I swapped out the honey and replaced it with maple syrup.
Pay dirt!
So I mixed all the batches together and froze it
Julie and I have been enjoying just a spoonful of it after dinner each night for the last week.
Tonight I gave some to Bronwyn and she loved it.
Wanted the recipe even.
So here’s the final recipe:
2 frozen bananas
2 cups of cashews
1 cup of maple syrup
1 rounded dessert spoon of cacao
1 dessert spoon of vanilla
1/3 teaspoon of Himalayan rock salt
It does not freeze hard, it stays fairly malleable.
Try adding the water to it like the original recipe suggests.
Take out of the freezer after two hours and reblending it to make it even smoother.
Enjoy!