Chocolate Covered Frozen Bananas

I first heard about these a few months ago and I am now in love with them. They are really easy to make and they taste fantastic. This batch of 2 didn't turn out as well as others I have made but that I due to my impatience. I didn't let them freeze for long enough.

Ingredients:

• Bananas


• Dark chocolate chips


• Heath chips (optional)


• Popsicle sticks

Peel bananas and cut them in half. Push the Popsicle stick through the banana lengthwise. Place the bananas on a cookie sheet covered in waxed paper. Freeze for about 6 hours (or until completely frozen).

There are two ways to melt the chocolate. You can set up a double-boiler to heat the chocolate (this works the best) or you can put the chocolate chips into a microwave safe bowl and heat for in 15 second increments until just melted. It is easy to burn the chocolate in the microwave so be careful not to over cook.

Dip the frozen bananas in the chocolate and if necessary use a spoon to cover the banana and scrape off any excess chocolate. Roll the chocolate covered banana in the heath chips before the chocolate hardens. Freeze until serving.

In the picture above you can see that I chose to cover one banana with just chocolate and with the other banana I rolled the bottom half in heath chips prior to freezing and the dipped the top in chocolate after it had frozen. I did not freeze them long enough and had a hard time getting the chocolate to stick to the banana.