…in my freezer.
Seriously, there’s a whole comic book in the works and everything.
Tonight, it was a particularly useful skill–I mean, superpower–because it was 84F today and while I really wanted to fry some strawberry pies or bake a cheesecake, I just didn’t want to heat up the apartment and thereby waste the hard effort the air conditioner was putting out in order to keep Josh from melting into a puddle of human goo. Clearly what we needed tonight was a nice, cool dessert, a good compliment to the (grilled) dinner of barbecue pork sandwiches and (store-bought and therefore no cooking necessary) chips and raw (i like crunchy) carrots. So I fell back on one of my favorite healthy cold desserts: frozen bananas dipped in chocolate.
Wait a minute! You want to yell out in a classically drawn speech bubble with italicized, bolded AND uppercased letters. How healthy can a banana be dredged in chocolate?
Well, duh–it’s dark chocolate.
And coconut. And walnuts. So that’s like, calcium and healthy fat and antioxidants all right there.
Moving on (at the speed of melting chocolate, another of my superpowers), this dessert is one of the easiest ever to make, and less rich than say, my strawberry tiramisu and less formal than the semifreddo (mmmm semifreddo).
This recipe serves 6; I cut it down to just make one banana each for me and Josh, but I’m putting the full recipe (adapted from a Whole Foods recipe) below:
Chocolate Dipped “This Day is” Bananas!
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