TROPICAL ICE CREAM RECIPES

Steps:

• Blend bananas, jackfruit pods, and cream in a blender until jackfruit is mostly chopped into small pieces.
• Combine coconut milk and sugar together in a saucepan over low heat; cook and stir until sugar is dissolved, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat and stir the banana mixture into the coconut milk mixture. Stir vanilla extract and sea salt into coconut milk mixture.
• Pour 1/2 of the coconut milk-banana mixture into a blender. Cover and hold lid down; pulse a few times before leaving on to blend until smooth. Pour blended mixture into a long rectangular pan or glass tray. Repeat blending the remaining coconut-banana mixture until smooth; pour into the pan. Stir flaked coconut into pureed coconut-banana mixture. Cover pan with a lid or aluminum foil and place in the freezer, stirring 1 time every hour, for 5 hours.

Steps:

• Remove bottom of a 9x3-inch springform pan, line bottom with nonstick foil and attach pan sides.
• Crust: Pulse crackers and nuts in food processor until fine crumbs form (nuts will be finely chopped).
• Add coconut and butter, pulse until combined (mixture will clump when pressed together with fingers).
• Press firmly over bottom of prepared pan.
• Freeze 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, place a container of pineapple-coconut ice cream in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to slightly soften.
• Pack into crust in an even, smooth layer.
• Freeze 15 minutes or until firm.
• Repeat layering and freezing as above with 1 pint of the mango sorbet, the strawberry sorbet and the remaining pint of mango sorbet.
• Top with remaining pineapple-coconut ice cream.
• Cover and freeze overnight or up to 1 week.
• With a thin, sturdy knife, carefully cut around edge of ice cream; remove pan sides.
• Invert cake on a plate; remove pan bottom.
• Reinvert cake onto a serving plate.
• Spread top with whipped topping; garnish with mango and coconut, if desired.