This Easy Grilled Banana Dessert Bar Ideais sure to be a hit with family and friends at your next summer BBQ! Learn how to make grilled bananas, plus get plenty of topping ideas.
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Grilling is a major part of our summer. We do grill year-round, but the summer is when we kick it up a notch. Dessert isn’t always part of our grilling (much to the disappoint of my kids), but on holidays, like 4th of July and other random times, it’s fun to make a dessert that can be made on the grill.
While s’mores are a favorite dessert to have when we are grilling, this year we finally got around to trying stuffed grilled bananas after hearing about them from friends. They are really easy to make and inexpensive too. Plus, including a lot of topping choices, like we do, is easy because you don’t need much for each banana. Each kids makes their own, which is always a hit in our house. No two bananas are topped the same!
Ingredients Needed for Easy Grilled Banana Dessert Bar:
- Bananas
- Toppings: Chocolate Chips , Peanut Butter Chips , Honey , Granola , Coconut , Marshmallows , Chopped Pecans , Graham Crackers , Strawberries , Pineapple .
Cooking Equipment Needed for Easy Grilled Banana Dessert Bar:
To make grilled bananas, you will want one banana per person. Hold the banana so it curves upward and cut a slit from the stem to the opposite end through the top of the peel and through the banana, but making sure you don’t cut through the peel on the other site.
Open up the banana a bit and start stuffing it with your desired toppings.
I like to set up a a variety of toppings — things like granola, coconut, marshmallows, chocolate chips, chopped pecans, peanut butter chips, and graham cracker pieces. I placed most of my toppings in small 4 oz canning jars.
I even include some honey and cinnamon sugar too, which are delicious additions.
After you have filled your banana, it’s wrapped up in foil and placed on the grill.
After grilling, the skin will get a bit dark (depends on how long you keep it on the grill), but the inside with be full of warm, gooey, and delicious!
Easy Grilled Banana Dessert Bar Idea
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Description
This Easy Grilled Banana Dessert Bar Ideais sure to be a hit with family and friends at your next summer BBQ! Learn how to make grilled bananas, plus get plenty of topping ideas.
Ingredients
- Bananas (1 per person)
- Foil
- pieces Assorted Toppings: chocolate chips (peanut butter chips, granola, coconut, marshmallows, chopped pecans, peanut butter chips, graham cracker , strawberries, crushed pineapple)
Instructions
- Heat grill to medium heat.
- Hold a banana with the curve upwards. With a knife, carefully cut a slit in one side peel, from the stem to the opposite end, similar to how you cut up a baked potato. Take care to make sure you don’t cut through to the other side of the peel. With fingers, gently open up the banana a bit. Add toppings as desired inside of the banana. Wrap banana up in foil (either heavy duty foil or a double layer of thinner foil).
- Place on grill for about 8-10 minutes, or until toppings are melted as desired and banana has softened. Remove from grill, open up foil and serve.
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Grilling
- Cuisine: American
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I love this dessert idea! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday, we sure enjoyed your post!
Miz Helen
My kids will love this. Thank you for joining the To Grandma’s House We Go DIY, Crafts, Recipes and More Link Party! Pinned this! Hope to see you again next week!
Oh my gosh! We used to make these when I was a kid and I had forgotten all about them! Thanks for sharing at the What’s for Dinner party – have a fabulous week!
Oh my – this Looks incredibly delicious! Thanks for sharing at the What’s for Dinner Link party!
This is a recipe I have always wanted to try out with our neighbors for dinner one evening. Summer’s almost over, so I guess I better get on it. I’m pretty sure we’re all going to be oohing and ahhing over these! Happy Fiesta Friday! – Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck – Colleen
Looks beautiful and sounds decadent. what a great dessert idea!
I find funny that people get so excited about banana boats. It is a very common German BBQ treat in summer. Actually, we like to put slices of chocolate in the middle or Nutella, keep it simple. So yummy! Banana and chocolate to the rescue!
What a fun and yummy dessert! Thanks for sharing with us at #overthemoon link party and have a great day!
Theses look so yummy! I know my boys would love them. Thanks for sharing #HomeMattersParty
This is the perfect summer dessert! You could use so many different toppings.
Congrats on being featured in the This Is How We Roll link party at Organized 31! I’m pinning this post now.