Barbequed Bananas
This is a dessert that you make partly on the barbeque grill, which is handy, as there are very few dessert recipes that involve actually using the barbeque. It's also a really good dessert, and not all that fattening -- only 5 Weight Watchers PointsPlus® per generous serving, which is pretty good as far as desserts go! This is a fun recipe for kids to make, with adult supervision, and can provide a good opportunity to tell them about barbeque safety.
Ingredients
- 4 Bananas
- 2 cups Vanilla Ice Cream
- 2 Crunchie chocolate bars
Instructions
- Crumble up the Crunchie bars.
- With a knife, make a small split in the banana skin along the top length of each banana from end to end.
- Place the bananas onto the heated grill of a barbeque. Turn them regularly until the skin has blackened.
- Remove from barbeque. Peel the skin (carefully -- it will be hot) off the bananas to expose the bananas. You can serve the banana sitting on the charred skin for an exotic look, or, simply discard the skin.
- Place each banana on its own plate, and top with a scoop or two of ice cream, and then sprinkle with the crushed chocolate bar.
Notes
Allow 1/2 bar per banana, and 1 banana per person being served. Adjust quantities as necessary. The chocolate bar will be crushed and used as a topping -- how many bars you need depends on how many bananas you are barbequing. One bar will do 2 bananas. Cadbury Crunchie bars are great for this, but use whatever else you might fancy. Feel free to use a different flavour of ice cream.
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5 Weight Watchers PointsPlus® per serving.
In calculating, we allowed 3 points for 1/2 cup (125 ml) of ice cream — about 2 scoops — and 2 points for the 1/2 of the bar; the banana is free on Weight Watchers.
* Weight Watchers Points™ calculated by CooksInfo.com. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the Points® registered trademarks.