Summer family recipe for 4 people, takes only 12 mins; recipe has peanut butter, golden caster sugar, dark chocolate, egg, banana, double cream and vanilla essence.
Quick banana ice cream sandwiches
Course: Summer family
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Dark Chocolate: 75g dark chocolate, chopped into chunks
- Egg: 1 large egg
- Golden Caster Sugar: 175g golden caster sugar
- Banana: 3 bananas, peeled, chopped and frozen in advance
- Double Cream: 2 tbsp double cream
- Peanut Butter: 200g peanut butter (crunchy or smooth is fine)
- Vanilla Essence: 1 tsp vanilla essence
Directions
- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 and line two largebaking sheetswith baking parchment. Put the peanut butter, sugar, 1/4 tsp fine table salt and chocolate chunks in abowland mix well with a wooden spoon. Crack in the egg and mix again until the mixture clumps together and forms a dough.
- Break off chunks of dough (about the size of a cherry tomato) and arrange them, spaced apart, on the sheets. Press the cookies down with the back of a fork to squash them a little. (The cookies can be frozen for up to two months - to cook from frozen, add an extra 1-2 mins to the cooking time.) Bake for about 12 mins until golden around the edges and paler in the centre. Leave to cool on the trays for 5 mins.
- Meanwhile, put the bananas, cream and vanilla in afood processorand blend until they make a thick ice cream. Scoop into balls with an ice cream scoop, and sandwich between the cookies. Serve immediately.
