Low Carb Frozen Chocolate Banana Nut Drops

I was inspired to create these Low Carb Frozen Chocolate Banana Nut Drops by those little baby food yogurt drops my toddler loves. These are easy and can be kinda fancy if you use the right tools. These could be a little addicting, but try to control yourself if you’re to eat these during your 4-Hour BODY diet.

Fruit isn’t on the list of things to eat if you are following the diet closely to lose weight, so you may want to save these for your cheat day, but if you’re dying to have something sweet, one of these could satisfy your craving and not be too damaging. Juuuust so you know…. dark chocolate is rich in antioxidants, bananas are full of potassium, and Tim Ferriss says a handful of nuts (especially almonds) are okay to eat during the 6 days on the diet, but just to limit them. If you want to add a little of your favourite (chocolate) protein powder to the “mash” it would probably up your game even more.

This is banana chocolate dreamland. How can it not be addicting when it starts with mashed bananas, gooey nut butter, squeezed into bite sized drops and then covered in rich dark chocolate, and is then topped with sweet coconut or more chopped nuts. When you freeze all of that together, something amazing happens and it’s going to make you the most popular person this labor day.

Okay, so maybe it’s a little last minute of me to be posting a recipe that could be for labor day just 3 weeks before, or maybe not. But I’ve always been a little last minute when it comes to holiday specific foods. And besides, isn’t this just anytime summer food? Uhum… anytime food?

I actually like these frozen treats, even in the winter. In Canada. I live on the edge people! I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that I keep our house ridiculously, expensively, embarrassingly warm throughout the winter so that my thin blood from living in San Diego and Hawaii, can handle the cold winters.

You don’t have to make them look this fancy either. You could simply cut the tip off of a ziplock bag to pipe the mixture out onto a cookie sheet, or even just use a spoon or as my toddler says “poon” into little clumpy balls of deliciousness.

I have a few tips for success as you start to create these Low Carb Frozen Chocolate Banana Nut Drops in the next 20 seconds.

First, don’t use too much peanut butter. Otherwise the drops won’t freeze properly. And then you’ll end up with something called Low Carb Frozen Chocolate Banana Nut Goop instead. And if you too have a food blog? You may not feel too good about that. Even though it actually tastes kind of good because it’s banana and nut butter with chocolate, and what doesn’t taste good about that?

LOW CARB FROZEN CHOCOLATE BANANA NUT DROPS

2015-08-21 16:29:03

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Ingredients

1. 4 large bananas - mashed
2. About 3/4 cup of nut butter – your choice (hazelnut, cashew, almond, etc.)
3. 1 Tbsp. protein powder (Vanilla , chocolate, or banana flavor)****Optional
4. 12 ounces of dark chocolate chips - melted

Instructions

1. Mash bananas in a bowl
2. Mix your favorite nut butter (and optional protein powder) in with the bananas
3. Line a cookie sheet with parchment or wax paper
4. Add mixture to a piping bag, ziplock bag and squeeze 1inch drops on to the cookie sheet
5. Place sheet into freezer for about 30 minutes
6. In a small saucepan over low heat, melt chocolate – stir until melted,then remove from heat
7. Remove drops from the freezer
8. Place each drop on a fork and hold it over the saucepan
9. Spoon melted chocolate over to coat all sides and letting the excess chocolate drip through the fork and back into the pan
10. Set each coated banana drop upright on cookie sheet, and place back into the freezer
11. Allow to chill at least 30-60 minutes
12. You can remove all and place in a smaller tupperware container once frozen

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