Nice Cream Papaya Boats (Vegan

• Vegan
• Gluten free
• Paleo

• Produce

  • 2 Bananas, ripe
  • 1 cup Blueberries, frozen
  • 1/2 Lemon, Zest of
  • 3 Papayas, large
  • 1 cup Raspberries, frozen
  • 1 Zest

• Canned Goods

  • 1 cup Coconut cream

• Condiments

  • 1/4 cup Maple syrup + more

• Baking & Spices

  • 1/2 tsp Cardamom, ground

• Nuts & Seeds

  • 1 1/2 cups Cashews

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Description

Ingredients

• 3 - 4 large papayas, halved lengthwise and seeds removed
• 1.5 cups cashews, soaked overnight and drained
• ¼ cup maple syrup + more to taste
• 1 cup coconut cream, skimmed from the top of a can of full fat coconut milk
• 2 ripe bananas
• 1 cup frozen raspberries
• zest of ½ lemon
• ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1 cup frozen blueberries
• zest ½ lime
• Optional toppings: frozen berries, black sesame seeds, nuts or seeds, goji berries, anything you like!

Directions

• In the bowl of a high powered blender, combine the soaked cashews, maple syrup, coconut cream and bananas. Blend until creamy, then taste and decide if you want to add more sweetener, as you like.
• To make the raspberry flavor, first pour half of the nice cream base out into a bowl and set it aside. Add the frozen raspberries, lemon zest and cardamom to the blender. Blend until smooth and creamy. Pour the raspberry nice cream base into a dish and set aside. Scrape every last drop out into the dish, then clean out the bowl and the blender base.
• To make the blueberry flavor, add the reserved nice cream base back to the blender along with the frozen blueberries and lime zest. Blend until smooth and creamy. Then pour the blueberry nice cream into dish.
• To freeze the nice cream, you can either blend each nice cream individually in an ice cream maker OR you can use the no-churn, lazy gal method (my current go-to). Pour each base into a high walled pan, half-and-half style. Then freeze for 6-8 hours before scooping and serving. If your ice cream is hard frozen let it thaw for 30 minutes prior to scooping.
• To serve, scoop out loads of nice cream into each papaya half, top with berries and seeds and bask in the glow!
• Also, duh, if you dont care about perfectly ice cream scoops you can simply freeze the base until its nice and cold then pour it into your papaya halves.