Banana Boats
Wednesday, May 27, 2009As featured in Bay Area Bites, May 27, 2009.
Banana Boats
Ahhh, do you smell that? Green grass, fresh air, smoky charcoal puffing gently into the air. The season of BBQs is officially upon us.
At your next open grill fest, whip up these Banana Boats and polish off your barbecue on a sweet note.
This no-fuss dessert is pure genius, and is sure to satisfy any sweet tooth. I owe this party trick recipe to Bartender Bill from Orson, who taught me how to make this ooey gooey and absurdly easy treat. Amazing what a gal can learn at the bar.
Banana Boats
Ingredients:
Bananas (As many as you need. Estimate 1 per person. Once they taste it, no one will want to share.)
Chocolate chips, butterscotch, peanut butter chips, sweetened coconut (Or whatever other toppings you fancy.)
Foil
Preparation:
1. Choose your bananas. I personally like mine ripened until perfectly spotted. I think they are sweeter this way.
2. Slit the banana lengthwise.
3. Stuff them with any combination of toppings you desire. I am a big fan of dark chocolate and butterscotch.
4. Line your grill with foil, and place the nanas on top.
5. Grill with the cover on until toppings get melty and delicious.
6. Eat with a spoon.
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These are GENIUS! I just forwarded this page to my family to consider for inclusion on the menu at my Grandma’s 80th bday celebration weekend this summer. MMMMMMM MMMMM.
hahah YESSS!!! i’m honored that this will be considered for a moynie family affair. it’s MOYNIE time, grandma moynie time!!
It will taste sweeter with Bananas that are really ripe
Wow these look amazing. My mouth is watering. I have never heard of this but I am definitely going to try it. YUM.
If I peeled my banana and found those tasty treats inside – I’d be in heaven. What a wonderful simple idea! Bill’s a genius
I love the idea, and it’s very simple! I think I’ll have to use this idea once we start up the grill
Must try this! But what if you live in a small apartment and don’t have a grill? Would this work in the oven?
yes, you could def do this in the oven! try it at 350 until it looks nice and melty.
Awesome idea! Butterscotch and Banana – sold.
I’m totally doing this for the upcoming fathers day bbq. Can you put Peanut Butter inside with choco chips?
omg yes, please do!! a classic combo
i suggest using a piping bag, or just fill a ziploc with some PB and snip a corner off. that way it’ll stay nice and neat!
This is a fantastic idea! SO simple and how can you go wrong with tasty treats like chocolate and coconut inside!!
I made these once…6 years ago or so…I think it’s time to throw the nanners back on the grill out at my house (or as I did before, over the bonfire)!
What a creative way to use bananas!
My family gets together every Sunday to have dinner together and I think these would be a perfect dessert for everyone to eat. I’m totally going to pop these on the grill this Sunday!
I bet these would be really good served with vanilla or chocolate ice cream too, mmmm.
I saw these last summer on a site and totally forgot about how incredible these looked – Thanks for the reminder and the inspiration to get off my backside and make this kick ass dessert!!
How creative and fun and delicious, too!
LOVE this site – would love to link up!
We did this with chocolate chips and mini marshmallows. Yum!
What a great idea! Thanks for the tip.
I work at a summer camp, where we often get bored of serving the kids s’mores at the campfire at night, so banana boats make a frequent appearance. We keep things a little simpler (and smaller – one chocolate-stuffed banana per ten year old is way too much sugar at nine at night) and cut the bananas in half before slitting them legnthwise, then just chocolate (no choices for our kids
) and we wrap them in foil and throw them into the embers of the fire. Eating with spoons is to neat for us, too, so after they cool we squeeze the banana-chocolate mixture directly into our mouths like from a tube of toothpaste. So messy, so hot, so so so good.
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