Surprise Dessert!

This is Angela, taking over the kitchen for my experiment.

My parents were out today and I was in charge of a portion of dinner, which I did. But then, I was watching the Food Network today (more out of boredom than actually wanting to learn something) and I heard the term “Banana Bites”, which perked my interest. It was a dessert where the lady put a melted peanut butter chocolate spread between banana chips.

I do not have banana chips, nor did I feel like melting chocolate into peanut butter. So this is what I did instead.

First, I cut up a very large banana into thin, even slices and laid them out on a cooking sheet. I sprinkled them with cinnamon but I recommend you do this after they cook because it burnt on the pan and made the bananas stick a bit.

I put the banana slices in the oven on a broiler setting for about 10-15 minutes until they were golden and baked. For the filling, I split them into Nutella (a chocolate hazelnut spread) and creamy peanut butter. I used plastic baggies for piping and put them in a hot water bath to make them softer. Before I piped them, I cut little holes at the end of the bag.

When the banana chips were ready, I pulled them out of the oven and carefully transferred them to cooling racks with wax paper. I lined them up 2-by-2 so that there was a bottom and lid for each.

 I also split them in half because some people in this house don’t like Nutella.

 Then I piped in the peanut butter and Nutella, making sure to leave lids blank for each piped piece.

 I covered each one and set them on separate plates, sprinkling powdered sugar over them.

 Of course I had to taste one of each.

 And then I popped them in the fridge so that the Nutella and peanut butter harden and don’t ooze when eaten.

Super easy and you can put any sort of filling you like. Enjoy!

-Angela

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