I never really had much interest in buying an ice cream maker. But you see, I have a number of food blogs in my Google Reader, and all of these delicious-looking ice cream and sorbet recipes kept popping up. Every time, I’d look at the pictures and think…

Mmmmmmm.

And so with some gift cards and coupons, we hit Bed Bath and Beyond at the end of May/beginning of June and purchased the ice cream maker attachment for my Kitchen Aid mixer.

Now, with very little effort, we can create homemade, tasty treats like this:

That’s right–banana sorbet. The other day, I was on the hunt for a peach sorbet recipe for this weekend. Michael’s having his wisdom teeth out on Friday morning, and I wanted to prepare to make him some surgery-friendly sweet treats.

I started at Annie’s blog, since she has so many ice cream/sorbet recipes. I did find a peach sorbet recipe, but while there, I found a good-looking banana one, too! I had a couple of overly ripe bananas I wanted to use up, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity.

This sorbet is tasty. The banana flavor is very prominent, which is nice. In fact, it almost tastes like you’re eating a really good banana, right out of the peel. Except, I don’t even like bananas because I don’t like their consistency! HA! But this completely solves my consistency issues, and I enjoyed it very much.

Banana Sorbet
(Source: The Perfect Scoop, as seen on Annie’s Eats)

Ingredients:
– 4 medium-sized ripe bananas, peeled
– 1 cup water
– 3/4 cup sugar
– 2 tsp. freshly squeezed lime juice

Directions:
1. Cut the bananas into chunks and puree them in a blender or food processor with the water, sugar and lime juice until smooth.

2. Freeze in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer’s instructions.