Good morning! This is how I feel about Monday:
Laying in bed > working. Obviously.
After a fun Saturday (guess what? I didn’t drown during my Open Water Challenge race!), Sunday was kind of blah. I didn’t feel very well, emotionally or physically, and spent most of the day laying on the couch or the patio and staring at a book/the TV/the wall/the back of my eyelids.
But with 11 hours (OMG) of sleep under my belt, I feel much better.
So much better, in fact, that I have this AMAZING breakfast to share with you…
I’m OBSESSED with coffee, and the love for java definitely translates to ice cream. I will always choose coffee ice cream over the other ‘traditional’ favorites like cookie dough or mint chocolate chip.
But coffee ice cream for breakfast?! Well, of course – if it’s secretly Banana Soft Serve in disguise!
Coffee Banana Soft Serve
Ingredients (for two servings):
- 2 bananas, frozen in chunks
- 2 large dates
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 1.5 tablespoons instant coffee (powdered)
Directions:
- In food processor, combine all ingredients until a soft serve is created.
- Depending on the consistency, you might want to re-freeze for a bit. Generally, if you eat it within a day or so of making it, you won’t need to re-process. Otherwise, just give it a whirl in the processor again to create a soft texture.
I enjoyed my Coffee Banana Soft Serve on top of some French toast with blackberries. That makes it an acceptable breakfast, right?
Ready… set… MONDAY!
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Your ice cream seems so much more solid than I’ve ever been able to make it. Mine is usually thick milkshake consistency. What’s the trick?
Do you freeze the bananas beforehand?
I do, but it never looks this good
I agree! That totally looks more like ice cream consistency. Awesome!
your dog is freakin adorable!
I want to snuggle Maggie’s face. Fact.
Oh my god. I have to make this.
Coffee ice cream is one of my favorites, and this just screams out to me. I have to remember to make this!!
Maggie looks adorable!!
Oh. my. goodness. That looks amazing! I hope you’re feeling better now Caitlin.. sometimes lazy days just seem to do the trick!
Ok um that breakfast is good enough to be on any restaurant menu- YUM! I lovee coffee ice cream too! I have a feeling you would have loved my bday cake: brownie cake with one layer of choc chip ice cream and a second layer of coffee ice cream!
That sounds amazing.
Such a good idea!
I’m with you – coffee ice cream is really delicious, and I would choose it over most other flavors [except banana, which is kind of funny].
Chocolate should be part of every breakfast. Duh.
I had one of those types of Sundays too! Every now and then I just get in a funk like that for no reason. 11 hours of sleep sounds glorious. I will have to try that next time!
That IS a gorgeous picture of Maggie.
Have you ever tried using date molasses instead of dates to sweeten up a soft serve (Or anything really). It keeps it a lot smoother and is easier to blend into the bananas
Oh, that sounds good!
What a genious combination!
Oh my goodness, that looks heavenly. Ice cream for breakfast = best idea ever.
That does look SO much like ice cream!
I love coffee flavour anything too – I even marinated some tofu in it the other day :p
Yum! I love coffee too. I felt crappy on Sunday too but that’s because I enjoyed too much beer on Saturday night. Oops!
Ohh what a cool variation on banana soft serve. must try it!
I think I literally may have drooled a little bit looking at your breakfast pictures. Amazing!
This is the best idea ever, Caitlin!! I must try it!
Yum! I got my husband to try banana soft serve once. He said it was good, but never ate it again. I think he would be all over it if I made him this- what a great idea!
Yeah I was definitely the only ten year old kid who would order coffee ice cream instead of bubble gum…that stuff is GOOOOD!
This is genius! I’m a huge fan of coffee ice cream myself, so any excuse to have it for breakfast is umm, perfect
I would love to try this but my Magic Bullet sucks when it comes to making banana soft serve. I need a food processor!
I have to throw in some almond milk if I want to use my MB. It ends up more like a thick smoothie but I’m sure it’d be more solid if I ever had the patience to throw it back in the freezer.
Good advice, Blair!
Oh gosh that just looks too delicious!! Mmmm
That soft serve looks delicious! I have a son who will go crazy for this (minus the coffee)!
That soft serve looks delicious! I have a son who will go crazy for this (minus the coffee)!
yum, I love making soft serve with bananas. The addition of coffee, now that is a nice touch
i must make this coffee banana soft serve for my fiance, john. anything coffee flavored is a winner in his book.
hope you’re having a productive monday so far!
Definitely an acceptable and amazing sounding breakfast.
I really, really need to try banana soft serve! It looks delicious and you can try so many different flavours!
LOVE your picture of Maggie!
Also, you are a genius. Coffee and banana soft serve all in one? Sounds right up my alley! Better go freeze some bananas ; )
That sounds so delicious..one of my fave flavor combos!
Coffee banana soft serve! I don’t know why I didn’t think of this! Must be delicious!!
sorry you had a BLAH sunday (maybe because you realized it was almost monday haha)
but 11 hours of sleep!! Thats awesome. I think thats what I got total over the weekend haha
Wow, that looks nice and thick! I hate coffee, but I’ll just leave that out and have some amazing chocolate “ice cream.” Looks delicious!!
My mouth is watering. I need some of that NOW!
ummm…OMG….I need a minute here!
I just fell in LOVE with your breakfast!
Thanks for the new twist on banana soft serve!
Coffee ice cream of any kind makes me drool a little. Haven’t had any in ages!
Your breakfast looks perfect to me!
ugh, that’s how I feel about Monday too. Just not ready to wake up… I wish my kids would sleep in till 11am one morning. Maybe I can catch a nap during their nap time!!
seriously…did they put something in the water saturday….i was exhausted and blah too sunday, and still dragging today! must try this recipe…looks delish!
I’m not much of a dog person (more of a cat lady) but that photo definitely made me want a dog! soooo adorable!
Maggie says thank you
AH! I was just looking in my cabinet thinking I needed to do something with all those packets of Starbucks VIA I’ve accumulated. Did you read my mind?
Looks amazingly delicious!
YUMMMMM! That looks so great! I need to remember to slice up my bananas pre-freezing. I have a bunch of bananas in my freezer that I’ve been steadfastly ignoring, because I forgot to peel them, and they just look brown, hard, and intimidating now. haha!
That looks so good! OK, Maggie is the cutest thing ever!
ohhhh this looks really yumm. A perfect Monday b-fast
That looks like a delicious breakfast! Yay for 11 hours of sleep…extra sleep will usually pull me out of a funk, too. Hope you conquer your Monday workload with your sanity still in tact
Soft serve for breakfast?! Sign me up!! I’d love to be able to do that but am still in desperate need of a food processor that can handle it.
I’d never think to add dates to BSS – great!
About a year or 18 mos ago I starting making choc coffee softserve, too!
Except I actually use a 1/4 c or thereabouts of brewed coffee rather than instant coffee. It helps in the Vita to have a little liquid for blending purposes and the coffee does the trip.
Love your softserve action here!
Dang girl, i TOTALLY thought that was the real-thing ice cream before you said it was banana soft-serve. Crazy thickness going on there!
Yesss I scored a bunch of bananas today in the reduced produce section–they now have a purpose!
OMG that breakfast is amazing! Looks like the type of breakfast I could have used this morning…perhaps I will try this tomorrow!!! DELISH
OMG that breakfast is amazing! Looks like the type of breakfast I could have used this morning…perhaps I will try this tomorrow!!! DELISH
I think ice cream/banana soft serve rounds out a breakfast quite well
What a creative breakfast idea! I’m going to test that out once I get settled into my new apartment and have a food processor out!
11 hours of sleep? That sounds amazing.
Did you eat all the soft serve? I don’t think I could manage two bananas, with the bread. Is it possible to make a smaller batch of soft serve with only 1 banana, or does that not work well?
It makes two servings! You can freeze the remainder.
Great idea! I’ve never tried playing around with BSS flavours because I already love the taste of it on its own. But I’m definitely going to try this!
eleven hours of sleep sounds glorious! p.s. that’s the same face my dogs make on mondays…
I will definitely be giving this a go – thanks for the idea Caitlin!
Oooh… this is for two servings? Whoops… I may or may not have just finished the entire bowl of coffee banana soft serve by myself.