Caramelized Bananas With Ice Cream

The boys love desserts, and we’ve tried every kind of muffins, cookies, and crumbles. However final night time, we made one thing so scrumptious (and simple!), we all know it can change into a brand new traditional: caramelized bananas from the attractive 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 leads to probably the most satisfying mixture of heat, caramelized bananas and chilly ice cream.” Right here’s make it…

Recipe: Caramelized Bananas With Ice Cream
From Sizzling Sheet
Serves 4

“Ensure to decide on bananas which can be simply ripe however not too ripe, in any other case they gained’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, corresponding to Maldon, for sprinkling

Place a rack in the midst 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, lower the bananas in half crosswise, then cut up the banana halves lengthwise.

Gently rub the bananas throughout with the brown sugar. Place on the ready sheet pan, lower 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 via, 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.)

Enable to chill for five minutes on the sheet. Utilizing a skinny metallic spatula or a small offset spatula, gently switch the banana slices to 4 small plates. (The bananas alongside the sides of the sheet pan shall be extra caramelized — be certain everybody will get a type of — although the center ones are additionally scrumptious.) Instantly prime 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 glad” 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.)