The boys love desserts, and we’ve tried all types of truffles, cookies, and crumbles. However final evening, we made one thing so scrumptious (and straightforward!), we all know it is going to grow to be a brand new basic: caramelized bananas from the gorgeous new cookbook, Sizzling Sheet: Candy and Savory Sheet Pan Recipes for Each Day and Celebrations.
“This dessert — an ode to Bananas Foster, minus the rum – couldn’t be less complicated,” says Sanaë Lemoine, the co-author, together with Olga Massov. “It ends in probably the most satisfying mixture of heat, caramelized bananas and chilly ice cream.” Right here’s find out how to make it…
Recipe: Caramelized Bananas With Ice Cream
From Sizzling Sheet
Serves 4
“Ensure to decide on bananas which might be simply ripe however not too ripe, in any other case they received’t maintain their form,” says Sanaë. “The flaky salt brings this dessert collectively — please don’t skip it!”
You’ll want:
2 tablespoons coconut oil or ghee, melted, divided
4 not-too-ripe bananas, peeled
2 tablespoons darkish brown sugar
4 scoops vanilla ice cream
Flaky sea salt, equivalent to Maldon, for sprinkling
Place a rack in the course of the oven and preheat to 425°F (220°C). Line a half-sheet pan with parchment paper. Brush the parchment with 1 tablespoon of the oil.
Utilizing a pointy knife, minimize the bananas in half crosswise, then break up the banana halves lengthwise.
Gently rub the bananas throughout with the brown sugar. Place on the ready sheet pan, minimize aspect down. Brush the tops of the bananas with the remaining 1 tablespoon oil.
Roast for 10 to fifteen minutes, rotating the pan entrance to again midway by, or till the sugar is effervescent across the edges and a shade darker. (The bananas ought to nonetheless maintain their form and never look collapsed; begin checking at 10 minutes.)
Permit to chill for five minutes on the sheet. Utilizing a skinny steel spatula or a small offset spatula, gently switch the banana slices to 4 small plates. (The bananas alongside the sides of the sheet pan will likely be extra caramelized — ensure everybody will get a kind of — although the center ones are additionally scrumptious.) Instantly high every plate of bananas with a scoop of ice cream and sprinkle with a beneficiant pinch of flaky sea salt.
Ideas? Will you make this? The cookbook options all sheet-pan recipes, together with spiced yogurt rooster, ritzy fish and chips, quesadilla for a crowd, cauliflower steaks, halloumi kebabs, and “make somebody blissful” cake. So good, I’m excited to strive extra.
P.S. Magical banana ice cream, and chocolate banana bread that tastes higher than cake.
(From HOT SHEET by Olga Massov and Sanaë Lemoine. Copyright © 2024 Olga Massov and Sanaë Lemoine. Reprinted by permission of Harvest, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.)
