Banana Boat

Are you ever just helpless with the overwhelming urge to bake something? Anything? I am. All the time. I try to keep my dessert making down to one or two desserts a week - usually Monday and Saturday. Saturday because I'm typically home all day and Monday because... well, who doesn't need a little happy pick-me-up on Monday? Bob Ross made his happy trees and I make my happy cookies.

Probably the main reason I'm overcome with the urge to bake so often is because I'm overcome with the urge for something sweet. We don't buy store bought sweets. Ever. Not because I'm all high and mighty and oppose feeding my family sugar. (hahahaha) Nope. Around here, when it comes to sweets, we have a "worth it" and a "not worth it" chart. Store bought chocolate chip cookies? Not worth it. Homemade chocolate chip cookies? Sooo worth it.  So if it's not worth the extra calories and fat, why even eat it?

But, I often do crave something sweet and something that seems like it took a lot of time and effort to make. And I don't want to make a huge cake or any other dessert that will sit around the house all week tempting us. And I have yet to find one of those coffee mug cakes that doesn't taste like poorly made playdough. So, in comes a little dessert idea that I found on Pinterest. This is so easy and perfect I just about kicked myself for not coming up with this on my own.

Worth it!!

Just take a banana (whole or half), split it down the middle and open it up a bit. Add a handful of chocolate chips and mini marshmallows and pop it into the microwave for about 20 seconds or until the chocolate has softened and the marshmallows plumped.

You won't believe how good this is. The banana gets all warm and soft and the chocolate chips and marshmallows get all gooey and delicious. And, if you're doing Weight Watchers, it's only 2 points! (Just be sure to keep the marshmallow count under seven and the mini chocolate chips under one tablespoon).

In the original Pinterest recipe, they added graham crackers broken up. But I don't really like graham crackers. (Not worth it). And they cooked these wrapped in aluminum foil on the grill. That seemed like too much trouble. Maybe if you were grilling out anyway. But for a random Tuesday night, I'll use the microwave. 

Enjoy!