Winter Break Bananarama Continues...
The bananas are browning quick so I had to figure something out. I hate to waste! I've seen that Dole has begun selling Chocolate Covered Banana Slices in the freezer section of stores. The bummer is they're still really expensive even with coupons! So I decided to try and make them on my own.
I wanted to make some with peanut butter and some without so I started with only chocolate and added the peanut butter half way through.
A while back I got a Wilton Chocolate Melter Deluxe and a giant 2lb bag of Wilton Chocolate Pro Fountain & Fondue Chocolate for a party and forgot to get it out. ADD strikes again! They have been sitting in my pantry for some time and this happened to be the perfect use for them!
This was also fun because my duaghter, SaeLeigh, got to help. Yay.
Ingredients:
2 cups chocolate
(doesn't have to be Wilton chocolate, chocolate chips would work fine)
5 ripe bananas
3-5 tbs peanut butter (optional)
Supplies:
baking sheet
parchment paper
fork
knife
chocolate melter or double boiler
freezer
Tupperware or freezer baggie
Set the melter to melt or start double boiler.
Add 2 cups of chocolate to the melter.
Stir occasionally until melted.
If you're using peanut butter in your recipe you can add it now. I wanted to make half of them with plain chocolate so I waited until I got half way through my chocolate to add the peanut butter. You can add the peanut butter whenever you'd like just keep in mind the more chocolate you have the more peanut butter you'll probably want. Tasting it never hurts! ;)
Parchment your baking sheet.
Begin cutting bananas.
I scored notches every .5" or so in the bananas and let Sae cut them.
Then I had her break the banana slices at their natural lines. Each banana slice usually breaks into 3 bits. This way they'll be bite size and poppable!
Add banana bits one by one to chocolate. Turn banana with fork until coated on all sides.
Lift banana slice from chocolate with the fork.
Place the chocolate covered banana bits on the parchment paper.
Repeat this until you have no more space on your pan or you run out of bananas!
Place baking sheet into the freezer on a level surface for 1 hour.
This is what they'll look like after they start to firm up.
Place into a container (a freezer bag would be fine). Store in the freezer.
I want to say thanks again to Harvest STL for the awesome bananas! Excellent wholesaler in Saint Louis. Check them out!
