Name: Chocolate banana boats
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 10 ripe bananas, skins on; 200g dark or milk chocolate, roughly chopped; 500g crème fraîche; 1 store-bought sponge cake, torn into chunks; ½ cup dried banana chips; 3 x 50g chocolate-coated honeycomb bars, roughly chopped or crumbled; Extra dark or milk chocolate, finely grated, to serve

Chocolate banana boats

Sail away to a tropical paradise on a bed of crème fraîche topped with roasted fruit, plus lashings of chocolate and honeycomb.

Serves 10

Prep

15M

Cook

10M

Total

25M

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Ingredients

10 ripe bananas, skins on

200g dark or milk chocolate, roughly chopped

500g crème fraîche

1 store-bought sponge cake, torn into chunks

½ cup dried banana chips

3 x 50g chocolate-coated honeycomb bars, roughly chopped or crumbled

Extra dark or milk chocolate, finely grated, to serve

Method

Preheat lidded barbecue to medium heat. Cut a slit lengthways down middle of each banana without cutting all the way through.

Divide chocolate between bananas, stuffing into opening. Wrap bananas in a layer of baking paper, then foil. Cook on barbecue, with lid down, for 8-10 minutes.

To assemble dish, spread 1/10 of the crème fraîche over surface of 1 servingplate. Put a few pieces of sponge cake and banana chips on top. Unwrap
1 banana and carefully spoon fruit out of its skin, then nestle it on top of sponge pieces. Sprinkle over a few chocolate-coated honeycomb pieces and a little of the extra grated chocolate. Repeat with remaining crème fraîche, sponge cake, banana chips, bananas, chocolate-coated honeycomb and extra chocolate. Serve.

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