Banana Coffee Ice Cream Sundae

I recently discovered something wonderful: a banana split sundae with coffee ice cream instead of the more traditional vanilla or chocolate is so totally yummy. The banana’s mellow sweetness and the coffee ice cream’s slight bitterness make this amazing contrast. Throw on some chocolate sauce, whipped cream and nuts (and cherries, or whatever else you like), and it’s delicious.

Ingredients

Banana, sliced in half lengthwise
Coffee Ice Cream (I like Haagen Daas, because it’s only got a few ingredients and none of them are bizarre chemicals – and it’s delicious)
Chocolate sauce (I like Nesquik)
Whipped cream
Almonds or cashews – both are wonderful, as would be probably most other types of nuts
Maraschino cherries (optional)

ingredients

This is really simple, and you can make it in whatever order you want, but just for fun I photographed my own creation stage by stage.

Let’s go bananas – and nuts!

bananas

First, go bananas.

chocolate

The bananas want to be close to the chocolate. Indulge them.

icecream

The coffee ice cream comes next – right in the middle, and stirring up trouble.

nuts

After coffee, sometimes we go a little bit nuts.

chocolate2

The nuts also want to be close to the chocolate, and if you’re smart, you know better than to mess with them. Besides, there’s nothing wrong with two drizzles of chocolate. Right?

whipped