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Our easy-to-make Frozen Chocolate-Covered Bananas are perfect for a 4th of July Party, a backyard barbecue, or a hot summer day.

Closeup on five Frozen Chocolate-Covered Bananas laying on a white platter and decorated in Red White and Blue for 4th of July.

My husband LOVES frozen bananas – he calls them Monkey Tails! I don’t quite get it. They are fine, but his love knows no bounds. When I talked to Laurie about it, we figured we would try recreating this amusement park staple for a 4th of July party. We thought it can’t be hard, and we were right. This ended up being a fairly straightforward process with lots of room for embellishments for any other holiday you can think of. I am happy to say my husband wasn’t disappointed. He loved our Frozen Chocolate-Covered Bananas and we hope you do too.

Ingredients You Will Need

All the ingredients you will need to make a Homemade Frozen Banana including bananas, chocolate and lollipop sticks.

How to Prepare the Bananas

Collage image showing how to prepare the bananas to make a Frozen Banana.

Step 1:  Peel the bananas and then cut them in half. Skewer each banana piece with a lollipop stick.
Step 2: Place the bananas on a cookie sheet and freeze them for at least two hours.

How to Cover the Bananas in Chocolate

Collage image showing the steps for how to cover the Frozen Banana in chocolate.

Steps 3-5: Melt Ghirardelli Chocolate Melting Wafers or Chocolate Chips in the microwave and then use a spoon to cover the frozen banana with the melted chocolate. We left the bottom of the banana uncovered so people could see what it was.
Step 6:  Place the chocolate-covered bananas back in the freezer until the chocolate is also frozen.

Decorating the Frozen Bananas

Collage image showing how to decorate the Chocolate Covered Bananas with colored melting chocolate drizzles.

Step 7:  If you want to decorate your Frozen Bananas you have a couple of options.  One is to drizzle them with melted candy melts.  We chose Red White and Blue for the 4th of July.  For the candy drizzle, place 15 Wilton Royal Blue, Red, and Bright White Candy Melts in Ziploc bags. 
Step 8: Place the plastic bags in the microwave.  We started at 40 seconds, took out the bags and massage the candy, and then microwaved them again in 10-second increments until the candy melts were fully melted.
Step 9:  Once the candy was melted, we cut the tip off the bag and drizzled the candy over the frozen bananas. Make sure you only cut the very very tip of the bag. You only want a small hole to give yourself more control over the drizzle.  Place the decorated Red White and Blue Frozen Bananas back in the freezer until you are ready to serve them.

Collage image showing how to add decorate the Frozen Bananas with Sprinkles.

Steps 10-11:  Another decorating option is sprinkles.  If you are going to decorate your Frozen Chocolate-Covered Bananas with sprinkles, add the sprinkles as soon as cover them with chocolate and then place them back in the freezer until the chocolate hardens back up.

Other Holiday Decoration Ideas

Close up of four Halloween Frozen Bananas laying on a white platter in front of a Orange Jack-o-Lantern Halloween decoration.

Step 12: Did you know that Frozen Bananas are great any time of year?  A little holiday sprinkles and you are good to go for any seasonal party. These are the Halloween Frozen Bananas we made for a kid’s party and they were a huge hit! So grab the bananas and the sprinkles and let your creativity be your guide!

Close up on five Frozen Chocolate-Covered Bananas laying on a white serving platter in from of Red White and Blue 4th of July decorations.

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Frozen Chocolate-Covered Bananas

Yield 8
Prep Time 15 minutes
Additional Time 15 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes

Easy to make patriotic homemade chocolate covered Red White and Blue Frozen Bananas for a 4th of July Party or a Memorial Day Barbecue.

Ingredients

  • 4 Med/Lrg Bananas
  • 1 package Ghirardelli Chocolate Melting Wafers or Chocolate Chips
  • Wilton Candy Melts - Red
  • Wilton Candy Melts - Royal Blue
  • Wilton Candy Melts - Bright White
  • Lollipop Sticks
  • Sprinkles

Instructions

  1. Peel the bananas and then cut them in half.
  2. Place each banana piece on a lollipop stick.
  3. Freeze the bananas for at least two hours.
  4. Melt Ghirardelli Chocolate Melting Wafers or Chocolate Chips in the microwave and then use a spoon to cover the frozen banana with the melted chocolate.
  5. If you are going to decorate your Red White and Blue Frozen Bananas with sprinkles, add the sprinkles before the chocolate hardens. If you want to drizzle on candy melts, place the chocolate covered frozen bananas back in the freezer until the chocolate is completely hardened.
  6. For the candy drizzle, place 15 Wilton Royal Blue, Red and Bright White Candy Melts in a Ziploc bags. Place the plastic bags in the microwave. We started at 40 seconds, took out the bags and massage the candy and then microwaved them again in 10 second increments until the candy melts were fully melted.
  7. Once the candy melts are melted, cut the tip off the bag and drizzle the candy over the frozen bananas.
  8. Place the decorated Red White and Blue Frozen Bananas back in the freezer until you are ready to serve them.

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Cuisine: American / Category: Desserts