This next "recipe" is a good example of the all-too-common Retro WW mistake of taking a perfectly good food and turning it into an utter catastrophe.
Chocolate Covered Banana
(1978)
(1978)
1 tsp unsweetened cocoa
1 tsp brown food coloring
1/4 tsp coconut extract
1/4 tsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp butter flavor
1 tbsp water
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup non-fat dry milk
4 tsp artificial sweetener
1 medium banana - peeled, cut in half and frozen
Combine first 7 ingredients and add milk and sweetener. Pour over frozen banana and return to freezer. Serve frozen.
So here is a pictorial review of how to take a perfectly good banana and turn it into a barely edible mess:
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| BEFORE |
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| Assemble the culprits |
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| The unholy mixture |
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| AFTER |
The lesson here: Sometimes, when you need a snack, simple is better. Sure, it may sound like a great idea to top a frozen banana with a grainy, artificially colored and artificially flavored chocolate sauce from Hell. But trust me on this one - it is not. Just eat a banana, and be done with it.
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| Food should not stick to the plate like this. |
After one bite, I threw this one in the trash.... Plate and all.
5 comments:
That looks...fecal. Just reading the ingredients list I could sense this wouldn't end well. That's a lot of mess going on in that sauce!
Anything involving brown food colouring is usually a warning sign. I didn't know brown food colouring even existed.
Isn't it monkey tails that are frozen chocolate-covered bananas? I can see where they were going, but... just no.
You have to mix Red & Green to make brown. Sadly I have done this on more than one occasion. Its a Retro WW trick for making something "chocolate" --Mimi
But wouldn't the cocoa make it brown? Maybe just not dark enough?
I personally have no real issue with most of it, except that I hate frozen bananas. I'm very particular about my bananas. I have to eat them fresh and when they're still quite firm and have green in the peel yet. I also don't go in for artificial sweetener, but I'm assuming stevia could be substituted here. So I would have eaten it before freezing.
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