Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Banana Bites

Happy Monday & to those of you who have the day off - enjoy it! To those of you reading this from your office desk - I feel you, so am I :)

I thought I’d start the week off with being real. Sometimes you just want to eat dessert first - so if you need it justified tell everyone I told you to do it. Sometimes real is dessert first & sometimes it isn't pretty. I wasn’t going to post these deliciously simple bites because well they’re just not that pretty [insert whiny frowny face & voice here] - but as Chris replied to my mini tantrum “they taste pretty” which translates to they taste good, put them on the blog - so I am. Here they are.

The other night as we indulged in season 2 of a House of Cards binge (OMG!!! that first episode) I felt we needed some dessert but I didn’t feel like baking & all of the brownies were gone already. I looked around to see what we had. Bananas, check. Peanut butter, check. Chocolate, check.  So I decided to make mini peanut butter & banana sandwiches covered in chocolate. Luckily, peanut butter & banana make a complete protein & dark chocolate has lots of happy antioxidants in it so I felt good about eating these sweet little bites & you should too.
Ingredients:

• 2 bananas (they don’t have to be super ripe - but at least no or little green not the outside)
• 1/4 cup peanut butter (I opted for natural chunky peanut butter but you can choose your fave)
• 1/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips/chunks

Make it!

1. Heat about an inch of water in the bottom of a heavy bottom pot with a heat proof bowl that fits on top of it. If the water touches the bottom of the bowl remove some of the water - you want to just use the steam to heat the bottom of the bowl. Reduce heat to low to keep the water simmering.
2. Place chocolate in bowl on top of the heated water.
3. Stir occasionally as the chocolate melts.
4. Peel & cut bananas into 1/4 inch slices.
5. Spread a layer of peanut butter on top of a banana slice & then cover with another banana slice making a sandwich. Do this for all banana slices.
6. Place peanut butter banana sandwiches on a dish with parchment paper/wax paper or foil on it.
7. After the chocolate has melted, cover each sandwich with chocolate as pretty as you can (mine were not pretty - so I call them rustic!).
8. Chill chocolate covered peanut butter banana bites in the freezer for 20 minutes or until the chocolate sets & hardens.
9. Serve chilled.