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Chocolate bananas on the coals

The braai's only dessert worth the name, back from the 2011 archive. Bananas baked in their own skins with chocolate melting through them, on coals that have finished all their other work. Needs no plates, pleases all ages, costs nearly nothing.

Dying coals · after everything Serves 6 10 minutes

The braai's only dessert worth the name, back from the 2011 archive. Bananas baked in their own skins with chocolate melting through them, on coals that have finished all their other work. Needs no plates, pleases all ages, costs nearly nothing.

Ingredients

  • 6 firm bananas, skin on
  • 1 slab (150 g) milk or dark chocolate
  • A handful of marshmallows (optional, for the youth)
  • Foil — one square per banana

Method

  1. Slit each banana through the skin along the inner curve — deep, but not through the far side.
  2. Break the chocolate into squares and poke them into the slit, with a marshmallow or two if children are supervising.
  3. Wrap each banana snugly in foil, slit side up.
  4. Onto the dying coals for 8–10 minutes. The skins go black, the insides go molten. Open carefully and eat straight from the skin with a teaspoon.
Engineer's view

Read left to right: ingredients merge into steps, steps merge into supper.

IngredientProcess →
Bananas 6, firm, skin onSlit along the inner curve — not throughChocolate (& marshmallows) into the slit · wrap snugly, slit upDying coals · 8–10 min → skins black, insides molten · teaspoon, no plates
Chocolate 150 g slabBreak into squares
Marshmallows optionalFor the youth
Foil 1 square each→
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