Banana Split {Easy Family Dessert!}
This classic Banana Split recipe is quick, easy and fun! It looks impressive, tastes delicious and is an all-out treat which you can choose your favourite toppings for.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 4 Bananas See notes
- 450 ml Ice cream About 8-12 scoops
- 50 g Toasted flaked almonds
- 12 Glace cherries
For the cream:
- 500 ml Double cream
- 2 tsp Icing sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
For the chocolate sauce:
- 100 ml Double cream
- 150 g Dark chocolate About 50% cocoa solids
Instructions
- Beat 500ml of the double cream with the icing sugar and vanilla until it forms soft peaks. Set aside.
- Make your chocolate sauce by putting the remaining 100ml cream and chocolate into a bowl over a pan of simmering water (don’t let the bowl touch the water). Stir gently until the chocolate is melted into the sauce. (Alternatively, microwave in 30 second bursts stirring very well in between each.)
- Now put together your banana splits. Peel and slice each banana split lengthways and sit in your dish.
- Put scoops of ice cream between each pair of banana half. Top with the whipped double cream (spoon it or pipe it on).
- Drizzle with the chocolate sauce, sprinkle over almonds and add the cherries before serving.
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Notes
Banana ripeness: Try to use bananas that are just the right amount of ripeness - not green still but still firm and not black or mushy. Overripe bananas won’t peel and slice as well and the flavour might be a little overpowering
Shortcut ingredients: To make this dessert even quicker to make, you could use squirty cream instead of the cream mixture, and you could also drizzle over shop-bought chocolate sauce, instead of making your own
Banana Split toppings: You can really adapt this to what you like or what you have in. Different fruits, nuts and sauces work really well too
Quantities: Please note the ingredient quantities in this recipe are for 4 servings, so adjust yours according to how many people you’re making this for
Prepare ahead of time: You could make all of the ingredients ahead of time, keeping the ice cream balls in the freezer, mixing the cream ingredients together and melting the chocolate sauce, then simply assemble the dessert when you’re ready to serve
Nutrition
Calories: 1225kcal | Carbohydrates: 103g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 87g | Saturated Fat: 47g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 26g | Trans Fat: 0.02g | Cholesterol: 195mg | Sodium: 195mg | Potassium: 1056mg | Fiber: 9g | Sugar: 56g | Vitamin A: 2590IU | Vitamin C: 11mg | Calcium: 257mg | Iron: 6mg