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Chocolate-Covered Bananas

Chocolate-Covered Bananas are quick, easy treats on a stick, ready in a few minutes, that both kids and grown-ups will love.
Recipe Chocolate-Covered Bananas
  • Difficulty Easy
  • Preparation 5 minutes
  • Cooking 5 minutes
  • Servings for 4 people

Chocolate-Covered Bananas are handy desserts on a stick, very easy to serve, tasty and with a rich, comforting flavor that kids will love. In our recipe we chose to make Dark Chocolate Bananas, with more intense notes, to balance the sweetness of the fruit, but you can choose whichever cocoa percentage you like or switch to milk chocolate.

As we’ll see, this very simple and quick Chocolate-Covered Banana Recipe, for serving a tasty, always welcome dessert with minimal effort, uses just 2 main ingredients: chocolate and bananas, plus a topping of your choice, such as rainbow sprinkles or chopped nuts.

What’s more, if wrapped individually, Chocolate-Dipped Bananas make a great treat for a tempting dessert buffet and, why not, with a thin red ribbon added they are also perfect for dressing up a festive Christmas table, perhaps together with the Chocolate Caramel Apples.

If you love chocolate-covered fruit, we also suggest you try the tasty Chocolate-Dipped Mandarins: once you start, you can’t stop. If instead you’d like a caramel coating, check out our guide on How to Caramelize Fruit, where you’ll find lots of useful tips for making perfect fruit treats.

Now let’s tie on our aprons and turn on the stove: let’s make these tasty Chocolate-Covered Bananas in just a few minutes.

Ingredients for 4 people

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Method

  1. To make the Chocolate-Covered Bananas, first chop the dark chocolate into small pieces and melt it in a Double Boiler on the stove.
  2. While the chocolate melts, peel the bananas and cut them in half. Then push an ice-pop stick into each half through the cut end.
    Chocolate-Covered Bananas, step 2: peeled banana halves on ice-pop sticks
  3. When the chocolate is melted and fluid, transfer it to a tall, narrow container and dip each banana half, making sure to coat the fruit completely.
    Chocolate-Covered Bananas, step 3: a banana half dipped in melted dark chocolate
  4. Let the excess chocolate drip off, scatter the sprinkles or chopped nuts over them and place the covered bananas on a tray lined with parchment paper.
  5. Let the Chocolate-Covered Bananas rest in the fridge for half an hour before serving, so the chocolate sets. Finally, remember to download our App with exclusive content and fewer ads!
    Chocolate-covered bananas with chopped almonds

Variations and Alternatives

If you don’t like the more intense flavor of dark chocolate, you can use milk chocolate to coat the bananas. The decorative topping can also be customized with chopped hazelnuts, almonds or pistachios, or with desiccated coconut.

Tips

Before dipping the bananas, make sure the chocolate is fully melted and very fluid, so it forms a smooth, thin layer around the fruit. If you want to avoid the annoying effect of chocolate pooling on the parchment paper and flattening one side of the Chocolate-Covered Banana, you can hang the treats upside down, using clothespins to hold the ice-pop sticks in place and putting a sheet of parchment paper underneath to catch the excess chocolate. Once the chocolate has set, you can move the covered bananas to the fridge.

Storage

Chocolate-Covered Bananas keep in the fridge, in an airtight container, for up to 2 days after making them.

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