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
Whip up these Banana Boats at your next barbecue or camping trip for an ooey gooey and absurdly easy treat.
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
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, mini marshmallows, sweetened coconut (Or whatever other toppings you fancy.)
Foil
Preparation
- Choose your bananas. I personally like mine ripened until perfectly spotted. I think they are sweeter this way.
- Slit the bananas lengthwise.
- Stuff them with any combination of toppings you desire. I am a big fan of dark chocolate and butterscotch.
- Wrap the \'nanas in foil and place on the grill. Grill with the cover on until toppings get melty and delicious.
- Eat with a spoon. (Insanely good over ice cream).
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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!
So are you supposed to eat the peel as well or eat everything out of the peel?
Eat everything out of the peel — it will be gooey and delicious.
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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Wow. That’s so clever but it’s so simple…I love bananas, so I need t try this sometime. But alas, I don’t have a grill :<
try it in the oven!
What a great recipe. We had these at my family reunion about two years ago and I never remembered what was in them.. These look exactly the same though! Who would have thought you could do something so neat on the grill with fruit. Yummy.
-Crystal
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mmm, these are so great! If you take the banana out of the peel and put it in tinfoil, then straight into the fire, the banana gets all caramelized and amazing. I highly recommend giving it a try! Stuffing it with marshmallows and caramilk is fantastic as well, just a suggestion.
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All I can say is Fan-Tas-Tic! I want it in my mouth now!
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We made these when I went to camp in grade 5! I love love loved them! I couldn’t really remember what we did when we made them, though, so I’ve never done it since. Now I know and will definitely be sharing this idea with my kids
Oh my goodness! These look so decadent and what a beautiful presentation! Yum…. Maybe I will make these in the oven as it’s gettin’ a bit nippy this time of year.
Cheers,
Silvi
mmm I haven’t thought of making these in the oven but that is a fantastic idea!
These look amazing!! I just started a recipe blog and would love for you to check it out! I have some cauliflower hashbrowns and roasted chickpea recipes..A different type of recipe site like yours. Keep up the amazing work!!!
Thanks, Jen! Mmm cauliflower hashbrowns sounds intriguing!
Does anyone know oven temps and times for these?? They sounds so delicious!
Hi Haylee,
If you were to do this in the oven, I would just place the foil-wrapped bananas on a baking sheet, and bake in a 400 F oven for 15-20 minutes, or until the bananas are satisfactorily gooey. Enjoy!
-s-
Do you slice through the actual banana, or just the peel?
I ended up slicing through about half of the banana — that gave me more room to stuff all the chocolate chips and goodies inside. Enjoy, Katie!
We made these at Girl Scout camp in the mid 1950′s! We cut a wedge out, put in marshmallow and broken pieces of Hersey bars, put the top back on, covered with the peel, wrapped in aluminum foil and put them in the coals of the fire for awhile! This brought back great memories!!
some things never go out of style