Banana Split
Banana split photo with ice cream, banana, chocolate sauce and flaked almonds
The dessert you will want to make again and again. Buy good quality milk, vanilla pods and chocolate! It’s totally worth it!
Serves 6
Ingredients:
6 bananas or 3 bananas, sliced in half lengthways
For 1.5L of the vanilla ice cream:
750 ml whole milk
250ml double cream
2 vanilla pods, sliced half in lengthways, seeds scraped out with a knife
150g egg yolks (8-9 eggs)
170-180g caster sugar
For the whipped cream:
200ml whipping cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp icing sugar
For the chocolate sauce:
200ml whipping cream
70g caster sugar
110g dark chocolate, broken up into pieces
10g unsalted butter
1 tsp Grand Marnier, optional
Almond flakes for serving
Method:
Ice cream:
For the ice cream, set a large saucepan to a medium heat and add the milk, cream and vanilla pods and seeds. Simmer for 4 mins until infused.
In a separate large bowl. add the yolks and sugar. Whisk together until pale, about 2 mins. Slowly whisk in a little of the infused milk, a little at a time until most is incorporated. Then pour the egg mix back into the saucepan.
Set to a medium to high heat and keep whisking the mix. Use a cooking thermometer and cook the mix until it reaches 82 C or until it coats the back of a spoon. Then remove from heat and leave to come to room temperature.
Strain to remove the vanilla skins. Then either pour into an ice cream machine to freeze or pour into a container, place in the freezer and stir at 25 min intervals until frozen.
Whipped cream:
Add the ingredients for the whipped cream together and whip until fluffy.
Chocolate sauce:
Set a saucepan to a medium to high heat and add the cream and sugar for the chocolate sauce.
Stir and let this heat up until dissolved.
Add chocolate unto a heat proof bowl and pour over cream.
Leave for 30 seconds before stirring until all has melted. Then stir in the butter and Grand Marnier.
Now assemble the banana split!