Chocolate-Dipped Frozen Bananas

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Awful recipe. It's a good start, but there is far, far more chocolate than you will ever need for 8 bananas. If you are making 5 bunches worth of bananas, feel free to use all of it, but it's a better bet to just use a smaller pan or bowl with less chocolate. Also, the chocolate does NOT thin down enough to make it dippable as written. Basically, while it has all of the ingredients that you need within the recipe, you will have to completely alter the proportions in order to make it work. I would advise finding a good recipe for making melted chocolate and then just use that with bananas. It will work much better.

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Great! A tip for melting chocolate: instead of melting chocolate in a double-boiler, just put it in a microwave-safe bowl with a little butter and/or cream or milk, nuke it on high for 1 minute, stir, nuke for another 15-30 seconds, stir. If still really chunky then nuke it for another 15-20 seconds. If only small chunks, just keep stirring until it melts in and you will have beautiful melted chocolate! Way easier and much faster and this way you don't scorch the chocolate and wont get gloppy. Happy eating!

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super easy!! my 3,5,& 7 helped add the "extras", which included granola, jimmies, sprinkles and toffee bits. i needed to add a little cream to thin the chocolate so it would cover more evenly and kept half the bananas in the freezer so as to stay cold enough (to harden chocolate as soon as i put it on. delicious!

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I just made these with my 4 year old daughter. Make sure the chocolate is thin enough to dip. I used cream to thin. I also added more cream as the chocolate cooled to keep it dippable! I held the banana over the warm pot of chocolate and spooned it on while I turned it. Then I dipped it in crushed smarties - this was my daughters part. I placed the crushed smarties on a plate, laid the dipped the banana on it and she sprinkled the top and sides with her fingers. Why bother freezing the bananas first? I used fresh ripe bananas - too green and they split when you stick the stick in. They coated nicely and didn't split. Worked really well! They look great for a kids party!

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I am about to make my second attempt. My first attempt was horrible! I think that I let water get in my chocolate...it turned into a big glob of unworkable chocolate. I just read that if even 1 drop of water gets into the chocolate, it will ruin it!!! So...her goes attempt #2. If this doesn't work, I'm giving up!!!!! I will post my results...wish me luck!

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Nothing went right with this recipe. I peeled the bananas, inserted the skewers, and froze them overnight overnight. Then I melted the chocolate and butter as directed in my double broiler. Here's what happened:

? The chocolate would not melt. The semi-sweet chips melted down and then began forming a huge ball of chocolate. It wouldn't thin out until I added milk and more butter

? The chocolate mixture would not stick to the bananas at all. Once they were out of the freezer the fruit began sweating which made the chocolate just slide off.

I ended up just laying bananas on a tray and pouring the chocolate over it. Tasted fine, but logistical nightmare.

I recommend NOT freezing the bananas beforehand. As for my chocolate, I don't know what went wrong.

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I'd like to add a couple of tips to this recipe that I've learned from experience. First, it's really important to let your bananas ripen until they are covered with *small* brown spots. That ensures that their sugar level is optimal. Next, when you freeze them, don't place them in a plastic bag. Doing so will cause the moisture that evaporates from them to crystallize on the bananas. This will melt into the chocolate when you dip them and quickly coagulate the chocolate. We makes tons of frozen bananas at Totally Bananas, Inc. If you wish, take a look at our web site: http://www.totally-bananas.net.

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The butter and chocolate was a mess! A normally calm person was wanting to curse in the kitchen! Provide better directions for the butter and chocolate. Next time I'll use the chocolate ration of paraffin wax to choc. chips (1 oz wax per 12 oz chips instead.

Oh well, my kids will probably still eat what now looks like a science project in my freezer!

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I made this and I needed to add much more butter to get the chocolate to a dipping consistency. Otherwise yummy. O, but I did halve the bananas before I speared them so the servings were smaller for little ones.

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I LIKE EGGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!