Let’s Get Fruity!

Monday, January 21 2013 | by Suki P | 2 comments | Add Comment

Snow snow snow. Sno joke! There’s only so many snow angels you can make, so much TV you can watch. I needed to occupy my girls. So, we did some cooking. OK – not really cooking, creating shall we say. So we made Banana Splits. Sort of.

Here’s what you need:

• Foam Bananas Tesco £1.29 or else Marks and Spencer have them too
• Sprinkles Sainsbury’s 79p
• Dark chocolate Sainsbury’s £2.09
• Cocktail sticks Sainsbury’s £1.10
• Polystyrene block

This is what you do:

• Pour the whole pot of sprinkles into a shallow bowl
• Insert a cocktail stick into the base of each foam banana

• Break up the dark chocolate into a bowl – OK steal just one little chunk
• Place the bowl of chocolate over a saucepan of boiling water and gently stir to melt it. Make sure the bowl does not directly touch the water.

• Lick the spoon. Get a chocolate moustache

• Keep the bowl over the hot water in the saucepan and remove from the heat. Place it next to the sprinkles and bananas
• Pick up a banana by it’s stick and dip half of it into the melted chocolate. Gently tap it on the sides of the bowl to remove any excess chocolate

• Now dip the chocolate part of the banana into the bowl of sprinkles and gently roll it around to cover all the chocolate in sprinkles

• Place the finished goodie to dry by inserting the other end of the cocktail stick into the polystyrene block

• Leave to dry for 20/30 mins
• Deal with the kids’ moaning – ‘when is it ready’ ‘is it ready yet’ blah blah! This passed the time though….

• Once dry you can either eat them with the stick or carefully remove the stick and serve piled high
• YUM!

AND AND AND, if you’re one of those boring dieters or good mothers that don’t really allow their kids to eat so many sweets – you can do the same thing with fresh strawberries. Also YUM.

Look, I’m no Delia or Nigella – I’m a fashionista darlings. But these were easy, quick, fun and pre-occupying so tick tick tick I say.

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