Saturday, September 10, 2016

Banana Split Bites


 These bite-sized banana splits are perfectly chocolate-y, refreshing, and secretly healthy!
 Bananas are a perfect ingredient to help satisfy your sweet tooth, as well as having some fantastic health benefits. For instance, did you know bananas contain Dopamine, which is an important chemical responsible for affecting emotions and a person's sensation of pain or pleasure?
 For more interesting facts about bananas click HERE.



( You can visit my facebook page for a short video of how these are made! )

So I used a mini muffin tin for these delectable, bite-sized banana splits. And as I was writing the recipe, I was trying to describe where to put the banana slices... I realized there is no acceptable term for large... indentation... thingys which... contain muffins....


So I have created my own term for them. Drum roll please.....

                                                   MUFFIN HOLES 
Yes. Now no one will ever suffer from terminology confusion again. 



    I think I'll write my own book. It will be called, "Giving names random features of cooking tools that no one knows what they are called, but to be honest, you probably won't ever need to know the name of anyways because it's so random."
 Anyways... So you can really get creative with these banana split bites. You could make... strawberry sundae bites! Or you can use different flavors of ice cream! I made a few with mint chocolate chip ice cream (Shown below)!


Banana Split Bites!
What you will need:

2 Bananas
About 8oz Vanilla Ice Cream
2 Cups Chocolate chips
1 Tablespoon Peanut Butter
1 Tablespoon Coconut Oil
Funfetti Sprinkles

What you will do:

Lightly grease a mini muffin tin
Place one slice of banana in each Muffin Hole
Scoop a tablespoon of ice cream on top of each banana
Press a sheet of parchment paper on top, and press down
Freeze 15 minutes

While these are freezing, put peanut butter, coconut oil, and chocolate chips in a medium sauce pan. Melt on low heat until smooth.
Get the icecream covered bananas out of the freezer, remove the parchment paper and pour chocolate to the brim of each Muffin Hole. Chocolate will begin to freeze, so hastily sprinkle sprinkles on.
Freeze for at least 15 minutes. Loose edges of chocolate with a knife and remove from tin with a knife or spoon
ENJOY!




2 comments:

  1. You mentioned parchment paper near to the end of your instructions but where is the parchment paper to be used?

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  2. Hi rgrover5690,
    Thanks SO much for pointing that out to me!
    I edited the post and fixed the mistake. When I meant to say to, "press a sheet of parchment paper on top and press down" I accidentally referred to the parchment paper as "Saran Wrap". So the parchment paper is used to press down the ice cream into the muffin holes.
    Sorry about the confusion and I hope the corrected instructions make sense now! :)
    Thanks again for pointing it out, you're awesome!
    -Abby

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