Everyone has a guilty pleasure, and Ben & Jerry’s Cookie Dough is a sweet-but-salty, smooth yet chewy, taste sensation. However, you’re not going to be healthy or get a rippling six pack if you’re eating it often! Luckily we have a healthy protein ice cream alternative that you guys will love.
This recipe uses tasty natural ingredients to make the vanilla ice cream, plus a Quest Cookies & Cream bar for the cookie-dough chunks. The macros are perfect for a post-gym snack, with tons of carbs and protein for recovery. If you’re on a low-calorie diet, you might want to divide it up into two servings to savour the flavour by eating it over two days.
Ingredients
Servings: 1
Macros: Calories 392 kcal, Protein 43g, Carbs 47g, Fat 9g
- 1 Cookies & Cream Quest Bar
- 1 Medium Banana, Just Ripe, Frozen
- 1 Scoop (25g) Vanilla Whey Protein
- 1-2 tbsp Almond Milk
Method
- First make the vanilla protein ice cream. Cut the frozen banana in half and peel off the skin. Chuck the frozen banana, whey protein and almond milk into a food processor (1 serving fits into a mini food processor) and blend until smooth. This takes a little while but it’s worth the wait. Scoop this mixture from the food processor and into a bowl.
- Take the Quest bar out of the packet and chop it up into small 1cm square chunks. Roll these chunks into little cookie-dough balls using your fingers. Add these chunks and any crumbs from the bar to the ice cream and mix well with a spoon. Place the bowl in the freezer for at least 30 minutes to an hour for it to set properly, and consume your protein ice cream within 1 week.
- Ingredients (note two bananas are for show)
- Frozen bananas (top is too ripe)
- Peeling frozen bananas
- Mid-way through blending
- Finished blending, looking nice & smooth
- Ice cream mixture done
- Making cookie dough balls
- Voila! Ready to be demolished