Banana Ice Cream

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My 13 year old son made this recipe. It was wonderful, and all the family loved it, especially my teens. He made it with the bananas foster, which was also good. However, I think the ice cream was better on its own. Texture was great, but we did use extract instead of a more expensive vanilla bean for this recipe. My son was so proud. Thanks, Alton!

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I found the use of only heavy cream left a cloying butter-like mouth feel. Next time I will cut it with milk or half&half. Or maybe try a banana gelato.

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This ice cream was very simple to make, and very tasty! I ended up making mine in a blender because my food processor was too small, but it still turned out great.

Do not make this if you do not like bananas. It tastes like a big, creamy, frozen banana. We loved it, and it was gone in about a day and a half!

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Simple and GOOOOD.>>>>>

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but I don't know what it is. This was my first attempt at ice cream (got an ice cream maker for Christmas and the flavor was great, but the texture was icy. I'm not sure what went wrong, I followed the recipe as written. Alton's recipes usually come out great, this was definitely a failure on my end.

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Good, but compared to Bryers (my texture standard this recipe yielded a slightly dense texture with a coated-palate aftertaste.

The heavy cream was the culprit for the heavy aftertaste. Since the Byers box lists milk among its few ingredients I'm now thinking that a mix of heavy cream & milk yield better results. Anyone try this?

The technique of freezing the banana so the ice crystals burst through the cells releasing an incredibly flavorful banana was very inventive!

Also, like the other reviewer had stated, the wonderful flavor of an expensive vanilla bean gets lost trying to support the banana flavor. I'd save that for true vanilla ice cream and use extract here instead.

Overall, great recipe, just needs some tweaking. -- THANKS ALTON!

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Delightful fresh banana flavor, lovely texture, fool proof to make. For those who asked if honey will work instead of corn syrup, it will. But honey does have a flavor of its own so be sure to use as mild a flavored honey as possible (as in clover honey not buckwheat honey to avoid too much competition with the flavor of the bananas. Also while the recipe says to peel the bananas after freezing, on the show where this was featured I'm pretty certain they were peeled before freezing and that is SO much easier to do.

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The recipe is delicious prepared as written. However, substituting honey for corn syrup and adding a swirl of creamy peanut butter (lightened with a little leftover cream--what are you going to do with the other 1/2 cup anyway at the and of the churning sends it right over the top! It reminds me of the peanut butter, honey, and banana sandwiches I ate as a child.

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I don't have a food processor or an ice cream churn, so I just threw everything in the blender. Worked great! When all was said and done ice cream was firm as it should be, creamy, and very banana-ish. Given the simplicity, this is a great recipe.

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this is easy and tasty