Fake ice cream killed my blender!

Lately, my lovely daughter and I have been trying out different things from Pinterest.  Most of our food quests have turned out very well or acceptably close! lol We've tackled many of the homemade cleaners and the like with success.  Crafts you say? Well, we've approached those with kid gloves.  I will talk more of those endeavors as we continue. 

Just last week, or so, I discovered the Pintester and have saved myself some heartache and $$$.  I love to bake, but have not mastered it by any means.  I have done enough to know how to bring my hubby to the so-called yard and marvel at my yummy creations.  Due to all my daughter's and my baking quests, I have put on just a few pounds...HA! Just a few my foot.  You know how it is! You can dominate just about any diet change until the evening and those cravings for something deliciously sinful start stirring.  Damned chocolate!! So when I came across fake ice cream I had to read more! A way to eat something with chocolate AND peanut butter that tasted just like ice cream? NO WAY! Game ON!

So I made a small batch using 3 average sized slightly brown nanners(yup you read that correctly, I have kids and after being around them all day I can't help but carry on their grammar), a dollup of peanut butter and a splashing of cocoa.  I was practically stalking the freezer until the bananas frozen!! The directions suggested using a food processor, however, my broke butt doesn't own one.  I do, luckily, have in my possession an electric blender! So, I carried on and created this fabulous "ice cream" and fell in love.  The 3 bananas made enough for two skinny chicas to devour or one curvy momma to endulge.  I took what I made to my city group (most people call it a Bible study but this dives even deeper into your life..I digress) to share with my friend.  We didn't speak much as we just couldn't keep the spoons from heaving these spoonfuls into our mouths!  I wish I took a picture so that you could see how truly small this was, but how much it was worth! Here's what was posted on Pinterest:

One week later and twice the amount of nanners I thought I'd have enough for my daughter, the few ladies at my group and me.  The nanners were frozen and cut, the blender was clean and ready to go so I began the process of getting the bananas into the blender and getting torn to bits. Well. It didn't quite work the way I thought it would.  The bananas closest to the blades blended well, but all the rest just stayed as far away from them as possible.  So I grabbed my wooden spoon and through the hole at the top I attempted to push down what I could. Here's what happened to my spoon:

I moved on to using my plastic spoon and dug out the stupid wood chips..lol.  The spoon worked much better (who'd of thought?) at pushing down the unblended bananas. At least it seemed to be working. I noticed at the highest setting the pace appeared to be slowing down. Then it was the smell that got to me.  Of course, silly me thought darling hubby was burning something.  After adament denials from him and the kids I came back to the kitchen and noticed smoke coming from the blender that my sweet sweet mother let me borrow to create those wonderful smoothies I've been seeing posted. I hadn't finished and I just didn't have it in me to carry on to hand mix the peanut butter and cocoa in it.  Here's what I had so far:

So, I guess there's a perfectly good reason they require you to use a food processor, huh?  Lesson learned.