Frozen Banana Peanut Butter Cups
The perfect vegan dessert bite! Frozen banana "ice cream" surrounded by peanut butter cookie dough and chocolate.
Equipment
- 1 Silicon chocolate mold linked above
Ingredients
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
- 1 cup fine almond flour bobs red mill
- 1/4 cup smooth creamy peanut butter
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup carob or chocolate bar, chopped into small bits
- 1/4 tsp flakey salt sub sea salt
Remaining ingredients
- 1/2 banana, sliced into half inch pieces frozen
- 1 carob or chocolate bar melted
- 2 tsp refined coconut oil melted
Instructions
- Sliced about half a banana into 1/2 inch pieces. You will need 6 pieces. Freeze for 3 hours for best results
- Into a food processor, combine almond flour, peanut butter, maple syrup, vanilla extract and sea salt and pulse into forms a crumbly dough. Add in chopped carob or chocolate bits and pulse a few times
- Remove the cookie dough onto a plate or cutting board and use your hands to form into a ball of dough.
- Into your chocolate molds, place a few tsp of dough into each circle and cover with the dough, forming little hallow half circles. *see notes if you don't have the mold*
- Then place a frozen banana piece into each one. Top the frozen banana with the cookie dough, filling in any gaps.
- Once they are covered, without any gaps (use your hands to press down until firm) place them into the freezer. Freeze for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Then melt your carob or chocolate bar with 2 tsp of coconut oil in a small pan or microwave. Mix together until combined.
- Remove your cookie dough bites from the freezer and coat them in the chocolate. Place on a cooling rack or parchment paper lined baking sheet. Top each with a pinch of flakey salt if you like.
- The chocolate will harden in about a minute. If you're in a warm climate, pop them in the freezer for a minute.
- Enjoy!
- Store in an airtight container in the freezer.
Notes
NOTES:
If you don't have the silicon baking molds, you can use muffin liners to make instead. Placing them in a muffin tin will give some structure to form them.