Ice-Cream and Giggles

Have you ever lusted over a nutella pizza? Well, what about a vegan nutella ice-cream pizza? Well, if you have, you are in for a treat! Imagine a fresh pizza base, creamy nutella ice-cream, strawberry and banana all in the one wonderful mouthful! And do you know what is the best part about this recipe?

It's healthy.

I mean, the base is really only flour, yeast and a dash of oil. The ice-cream is only banana, hazelnuts and cacao, topped with strawberries and banana. Which means:

No added sugar!

A delicious treat made from fruit, nuts and cacao!

In regards to the pizza base, this is my go-to recipe for all things pizza. You can use it if you want, or use a premade base, which you will need to do especially if you want a gluten-free base. I have tried to make this pizza base recipe gluten-free before, but it failed and wouldn't rise. So feel free to use your favourite pizza base recipe!

For the pizza base (makes one pizza), adapted from "Better Homes and Gardens: Best Bread Machine Recipes."

1/2 cup water
2 tsp olive oil
1 1/2 cups of bread flour
3/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp active dry yeast

1. Add all ingredients to a bread making machine according to manufacturers instructions. Select cycle, and when complete, remove dough from machine. Punch down, cover and let rest for 10 minutes, then roll into a base.
2. Pierce with a fork! then bake for roughly 10 minutes on 180 degrees Celsius or until golden brown.

N.B. If you don't have a bread making machine: add warm water + yeast and salt to a bowl, let sit for 5 minutes until yeast reacts. Then sift in the flour and mix with hands, add olive oil, mix again until combined. Cover bowl with glad wrap and let it sit to rise for an hour to two hours. It should almost double in size.

For the ice-cream:

2 large frozen bananas
4-6 tbsp vegan nutella (I used this) 

1. Combine ingredients in a food processor until combined. If it won't mix, add a dash or almond milk or coconut water until it reaches a smooth stage. It is a good idea to make this just prior to serving, so it is in that soft-serve stage which makes it easier to spread over the pizza base.

Assembling:

Pizza base, nutella ice-cream, approx 5 strawberries and one banana.

1. When pizza base is cooled down, with a spoon smooth on the nutella ice-cream.


2. Add your chopped strawberries and bananas to the ice-cream. Serve immediately, before the ice-cream starts to melt! You can always stick it in the freezer for 10-20 minutes before serving, but not for too long as you don't want the pizza base to freeze!