Description
A warm, festive twist on a banana split — sliced bananas baked under a spiced nut crumble, served with a tangy cherry sauce. Perfect for holiday brunch or dessert.
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 ripe but firm bananas, sliced lengthwise or into rounds
- 1 cup cherries (fresh or frozen, pitted)
- 2 tbsp sugar (or to taste)
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ tsp cornstarch (optional, for thickening)
- 1 cup mixed nuts (almonds, walnuts, pecans), roughly chopped
- ¼ cup rolled oats
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
- 2 tbsp butter (or coconut oil) melted
- Pinch of salt
- Optional: whipped cream or mascarpone, for serving
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 °C (350 °F). Butter or lightly grease a baking dish.
- Arrange the banana slices in a single layer in the dish.
- Make the cherry sauce: in a small saucepan, combine cherries, sugar, lemon juice, and cornstarch (if using). Cook over medium heat, stirring, until the cherries break down and the sauce thickens slightly. Remove from heat.
- In a bowl, mix nuts, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, salt. Stir in melted butter until crumbly.
- Sprinkle the spiced nut crumble evenly over the bananas in the dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 15–20 minutes, until the crumble is golden and bananas are soft.
- Remove from oven, let rest a few minutes. Drizzle the warm cherry sauce over the top just before serving.
- Serve individually with optional whipped cream or mascarpone.
Notes
- You can prepare the cherry sauce ahead and reheat before serving.
- Feel free to substitute or omit nut varieties to accommodate allergies.
- For extra richness, mix a little brown butter into the crumble.
- If cherries are sweet, reduce sugar; if tart, add a bit more.
- Leftovers can be reheated gently in a 160 °C oven or in microwave.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Dessert, Brunch
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: Holiday / Fusion
Nutrition
- Sugar: 15 g
- Fat: 15 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 12 g
- Carbohydrates: 38 g
- Fiber: 4 g
- Protein: 5 g