Dessert for Nine – Banana Split Bites {A Guest Post By @3kidsandus}
July 30, 2011 by Christine - From Dates to Diapers
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Cat Davis is the professional mom blog author of 3 Kids and Us where she shares her life as a police officer’s wife, mom to three young children, love of traveling Illinois, family recipes and serving as a mom brand ambassador through product reviews. You can find Cat on twitter @3kidsandus
One thing people quickly learn about me is my profound love for cooking, baking and creating desserts. However, my kitchen hobby was born out of necessity. Fresh out of high school, 18 and married with a child, I was forced to go from burning water to creating edible meals to nourish my family. At some point in the past 10 years that necessity became a truly enjoyable skill obtained through lots of practice and guidance from one of the best cooks I know, my mom.
As quickly as my skill set grew, so did the place settings at the family dinner table. Learning how to feed a family of three turned into feeding a family of five which I often find to be rather challenging. It leaves me often wondering how Christine manages meals for her quite large family of nine. Out of that curiosity grew the desire to test my kitchen skills by creating a budget friendly dessert for a large family. Which brings me to the Banana Split Bites.
With this dessert you can satisfy the sweet tooth of any sized family, make it in less than 15 minutes in 5 simple steps and create a nice variety for the picky little people in your life.
What You’ll Need:
- 3 large bananas, slightly under ripened work best
- 1/2 gallon of ice cream (spumoni or neapolitan for variety)
- 1/2 cup jimmies, chopped nuts or chocolate chips
- 1 cup of chocolate morsels, melted
- whipped cream
- cherries
STEP ONE
Cut bananas into thirds, without peeling the bananas.
STEP TWO
Using a melon ball scooper, carve a pocket into the center of each banana without scraping the bottom or sides.
STEP THREE
Fill each cavity with a different flavor of soft ice cream. Carefully use a knife to cut the side of each banana peel, remove and discard.
STEP FOUR
Dip banana bottoms in melted chocolate and jimmies. Place bananas on wax paper and freeze until ready to serve.
STEP FIVE
Top with whipped cream and cherries before serving.
And that my friends is how you create a fabulously semi-healthy dessert for a large family!
That looks good!
I know… YUM!! We should get all the stuff to make them today!
yes we should!
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I’ll second that.
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Oh those are so cute. What a neat idea. Going to have to try this with my kids! Thanks for sharing this recipe Cat.
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Cat – this is why I love your blog! It is full of fabulously easy ideas like this. My kids would love to help make them, almost as much as they would love eating them LOL
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This is a great dessert for the kids to get in on. My 2 year old helped with the whipped topping and cherries.
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FABULOUS!!! I absolutely LOVE these!!!
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I love banana splits. This is very dangerous for me to have read.
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These are fantastic, great for large (or small) families.
Julia should help you make them.
Adorable!
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oh my, that looks so delicious and fun! I’m not even a big ice cream fan, but the fun the kids would have making these together makes it worthwhile!
You could always skip the ice cream and fill them with chocolate chips.
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LOVE this idea. So cute and they look delicious!
Those really look delicious!!
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Those look really great! Cat always has wonderful recipes and ideas!
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Amazing idea! Love it. Can’t wait to try this with my kids next week.
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These look GREAT and so much fun!! I make something like these with zuccini and feta…but, I think my kids might like this more, LOL Great post @littleislandstu
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Yummy!
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Love it! Thank you for posting this easy and fun recipe! Kids will go bananas over it
I just posted a monkey-themed birthday party on my blog and linked to this great recipe, http://www.cherylstyle.com/blog/2011/8/8/tweens-and-teens-will-go-ape%E2%80%A8-over-this-birthday-party.aspx
brilliant idea! looks delicious I think I’ll try that for my kids! thank you for sharing
first of all well done its looking graet and its make me want to bite
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This is genius!
Thanks so much for the step by step of these cute little bites. Looks yummy!
if you have someone that doesnt like cherries use the banana that you got with the melon baller. or you can make them into smoothies too.
I suggest making these one banana at a time. I made a batch using 4 bananas and I had a difficult time with the melting ice cream.
Fun dessert! Having lived in the Eastern US for a while, I know that “jimmies” are “sprinkles” to us in the West, but what is the difference between “chocolate chips” and “chocolate morsels” since the recipe calls for both?