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Toka Chef Recipe - Ice Cream Bread and Banana Froyo

Can kids make bread all by themselves? Oh yes! with the Ice Cream Bread.

The month of May at Toka Box is all about Mother's day and so is the recipe! Try this two ingredient bread recipe and wow your mom!

A No Yeast, No knead Ice Cream bread - all you need is two main ingredients: Ice Cream and Self-Rising flour (refer notes for alternatives). Mix them and bake them. Voila! - Ice Cream Bread is ready.



Earlier I posted this recipe on my blog where I used Vanilla Ice Cream. I make this bread many times, and one time, my son - vaandu helped me throughout the recipe! Which is when I decided it will be ideal for a Toka Chef recipe.

This time, I decided to use strawberry flavored ice cream and took a video too. You can see how simple this recipe is.

The interesting thing about this recipe is no one knows the origin of this bread. Apparently, someone posted the recipe they tried from the Southern Living magazine in food.com. This bread reminded me of the wonder cake that we used to have in India.

Ingredients:

• Strawberry Ice-cream - 2 cups (softened) / 1 pint

• Self - rising flour - 1.5 cups

• Colored Sugar Confetti/sprinkles - 2 tbsps.

Prep-Work:

• Parental Step: If you ice cream is not soft, microwave it for 20 to 30 seconds and set aside all the required ingredients.

Steps:

• Parental Step: Pre-heat your oven to 350 deg F.

• Child Step: Let the child add the ice cream and sieve the self-rising flour in a wide bowl.

• Child and Parental Step: If you child can handle the hand mixer, let them combine the ice cream and the flour mix with it or a hand whisk works too. Help them on required basis and make sure you remove all the air pockets and mix until well combined.

• Child Step: At this stage let your child add the sugar confetti or other toppings.

• Parental Step: Fold the confetti and topping and make sure they are combined well.

• Child Step: Let them spray the loaf pan with cooking spray or grease it pan with oil.

• Parental Step: Pour the batter evenly.

• Parental Step: Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick when inserted comes out clean.

Let it cool before slicing. That's it yummy ice cream bread is ready.

Notes:

• You can use any flavored ice-cream, but try to avoid the non-fat ones.

• You use any toppings like tutti frutti, sprinkles or even chocolate chips.

• Insert a toothpick after 30 minutes and bake 5 or 10 minutes more accordingly.

• If you don't have self-rising flour, you can prepare it by combining of 1 cup of all-purpose flour and 1.5 teaspoons baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon fine salt.

Math and Science!

Baking requires mathematical precision, from measuring the flour to ice cream ratio to setting the time to bake right!

How about exploring a little bit of the science behind the bread? Self-rising flour contains baking powder that acts as a leavening agent. Baking powder contains baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and a dry acid (cream of tartar or sodium aluminum sulfate). When liquid from the ice cream is added to a self-rising flour, these two ingredients react to form bubbles of carbon dioxide gas that leaven or fluff up the bread!

Toka Chef Moment:
I was planning to add tutti frutti, but it was kiddo's idea to add sugar confetti's sprinkles.

Toka Yum Moment:
Like gujiya, the kiddo ate the batter mix and was super happy to lick the bowl clean.

Banana Froyo!

Banana Froyo is an easy and a perfect summer recipe prepared with frozen bananas and yogurt. Banana is a readily available fruit year around, and this recipe can be made not only during summer but year around too. When you have some excess bananas or ripe bananas, you can peel the skin and put them in a ziplock and freeze them. And I used those frozen bananas for this recipe.



Usually, when I have ripe bananas, I mostly prepare milkshakes with them and occasionally banana bread too. But recently I started to freeze them so that I can use them for these froyos or ice creams or even milkshakes. We recently discussed the importance of probiotics, and you can read it here. When bananas rich in B6 combined with yogurt, you get not only a yummy treat but also a healthy one.

Here is the recipe,

Ingredients:

• Frozen Bananas - 3 (If you don't have frozen ones, take three bananas and peel the skin and freeze for at least 24 hours)

• Yogurt - 1 cup

• Sugar - 1 tbsp

• Chocolate chips - 3 tbsps (optional)

Steps:

• Remove the bananas from freezer and let it sit for 10 minutes.

• Blend the bananas, yogurt, sugar into a smooth mix.

• Pour that in a freezer safe container and fold in some chocolate chips.

• Freeze this mix for 20 more minutes and top it with more chocolate chips just before serving. (Freeze the rest for longer shelf life)

Notes:

• Adjust the sugar as per your preference.

• Instead of chocolate chips, you can add your favorite nuts, dried fruits or candied fruits, etc.

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