Banana Split
Fresh banana, a selection of ice cream and some fresh cream - a simple, yet exquisitely heavenly combination of flavours and textures come together to make this classic dessert. Optional extras include chocolate or caramel sauce, maraschino cherries or sprinkles.
Ingredients
Chocolate Sauce:
- 30g dark chocolate, minimum of 70% cocoa solids
- 40g double/heavy or whipping cream
Rest of the Banana Split:
- ice creams of your choice – 3 balls in all
- 1 x fresh banana
- 50g double/heavy or whipping cream or a good squirt of squirty cream
- sea salt, optional
- sprinkles – an absolute necessity!
Instructions
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Collect together your equipment (see Recipe Notes below) and ingredients.
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Make the chocolate sauce: put the chocolate and cream into a small saucepan and heat over a low heat until the chocolate starts to melt. Take off the heat and leave for a few minutes. Stir well. If the chocolate has not completely melted, put back onto a low heat, stirring continuously. Take off the heat as soon as it is very nearly melted.
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Now the rest of the Banana Split: scoop 3 x balls of ice cream per person, directly into a serving dish. Traditionally this is vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. Today, we used 1 x vanilla and 2 x pistachio – please use your favourite selection.
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Peel the banana and slice in half lengthwise. Place in the serving dish either side of the ice cream.
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Quickly whip the cream until it reaches soft peaks and dollop over the ice cream. Alternatively, squirt on some squirty cream.
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Drizzle over the chocolate sauce and, if serving to adults, you may wish to add a slight sprinkling of sea salt – just delicious!
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Finally, scatter over a good shaking of sprinkles – imperative in our book!
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Eat immediately and feel very pleased with yourself!
Recipe Notes
Equipment:
- kitchen scales
- small saucepan
- electric whisk and mixing bowl
- serving dish
- chopping board and knife