Decorated Bananas

Submitted by Lennie

"A real treat for the kids that looks like you went to a lot of fuss. You didn't. Adults like 'em too."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 3
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 4 firm bananas (slightly underripe)
• 8 ounces semisweet baking chocolate
• candy sprinkles, as needed

directions

1. Place a sheet of wax paper on a cookie sheet and set aside.
2. Peel bananas; cut each one in half.
3. Push a popsicle stick into each banana half, in about two inches.
4. Either in a heavy saucepan over low heat, or in the microwave, melt chocolate.
5. Pour melted chocolate into a tall drinking glass; it should be about 2/3 full.
6. Holding popsicle stick, lower banana into the melted chocolate until it's completely covered.
7. Give it a gentle turn and slowly pull banana out, letting excess chocolate drip back into glass.
8. Immediately roll in desired topping: recommended are candy sprinkles of any colour, or crushed nuts.
9. Put coated bananas on wax-paper-lined sheet and stash in your freezer, uncovered, until the bananas are solid.
10. Place frozen bananas in an airtight freezer bag and keep stored in your freezer.
11. Serve frozen.

Reviews

[Chuck in Killbuck]

This is very nice treat, not to mention fun, for the kids. Only had two problems while making them. One was keeping a little 3 year old away from the jar of sprinkles (LOL) and the other was my bananas kept falling off in the glass. I think next time I'll chill the bananas to firm them up a bit prior to putting on the sticks. Oh...the directions say to cut banana lenghtwise. I think this should read 'crosswise' as in slicing. Thanks for a fun time recipe.

 

[Pamela]

Great recipe! I just posted this recipe myself and someone told me it was already here, great minds think alike ;). I found this recipe in the "Company's Coming chocolate everything cookbook". This was a great snack for the kids!

 

[luvinlif2k]

I'm reviewing this untested because this is what Mom used to make us to snack on when we were kids. She didn't decorate them but "banana pops" were one of our favorite treats. I'll definitely be doing this in the near future :)

 

[flower7]

A couple weeks ago, I had some bananas that got riper than I like them so I froze them. Then this weekend I had some fudge sauce left over from recipe #7549 so I pulled a frozen banana out and dipped it in the fudge sauce. Mmmmmmm!!Because the banana was frozen, the fudge hardened up like a dipped soft serve cone. Dusted with sprinkles before the fudge hardened. Glad I didn't have to share with any kids! LOL Thanks Lennie!

 

[LauraTracey]

I used to love frozen bananas at the amusement park! This sounds like them, but they were rolled in nuts instead of sprinkles. I will def be freezing the bananas first. Thanks for the idea!!!