Posts Tagged With: hot fudge

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INGREDIENTS­

2½ tablespoons hot fudge sauce or chocolate syrup

1 banana

1 scoop chocolate ice cream*

1 scoop strawberry ice cream*

1 scoop vanilla ice cream*

½ tablespoon roasted chopped peanuts

¼ cup whipped cream**

3 maraschino cherries with stems

¼ teaspoon sprinkles (optional)

* = Should be fairly firm.

** = Oh heck, spray or spoon as much whipped cream as you want.

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SPECIAL UTENSIL

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banana split boat or small oval dish

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Serves 1 or 2. Takes 5 minutes.

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PREPARATION

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Microwave hot fudge sauce for 20 seconds or put hot fudge sauce in small pot. Heat on low until sauce becomes warm and fluid. Peel banana and split in half along its length.

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Place banana halves cut sides face up in banana split boat. Put ice cream scoops between banana halves. Drizzle hot fudge sauce over ice cream. Sprinkle chopped peanuts over fudge sauce. Spoon whipped cream over peanuts. Sprinkle sprinkles over whipped cream. Top everything with maraschino cherries.

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Note: Work quickly if the temperature in your kitchen is 90 degrees or more.

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TIDBITS

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1) In 1904, David Evans Strickler, of Tassel Pharmacy created first banana split for the nearby sweet-toothed college students of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The tasty dessert spread like wildfire across the world. Alas, swirling controversy enveloped the tasty dish with multiple towns claiming to have created the first banana split. In 2004 the National Association of Ice Cream Retailers (NAICR) declared Latrobe to be the birthplace of the banana split. Nine years later the Pennsylvania Museum and Historical Commission placed a plaque at the former site of Tassel Pharmacy. Someone later,  perhaps at midnight, erected a gigantic banana split statue nearby. Show up there to see the activities of Latrobe’s annual Great American Banana Split Celebration. Be sure to go there and see how exciting and tasty history really can be. Latrobe welcomes you with open arms and split bananas.

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– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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