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This is the easiest most satisfying dessert. All you need are a few bananas or one if you are solo (however after tasting it you may want to make several at a time and store them in an air tight container in the fridge), chocolate,chopped almonds, and popscicle sticks.

Frozen Chocolate Dipped Bananas
Stick your popscicle sticks into your banana from the bottom with the peel on. Do not peel your banana and then try to insert your popscicle stick as you will end up with a big glob of mush in your hands. Once inserted remove the peel from the banana. Freeze for several hours or better yet overnight. Remove your bananas from the freezer and pour your cooled chocolate all over your banana (I actually cheated a bit and used the Hersheys squeezable shell chocolate that hardens instantly). Cover your banana in chocolate twice. Sprinkle your almonds on top of chocolate. If using Hersheys shell chocolate you will want to sprinkle your almonds quickly as it does freeze within seconds just as it says on the bottle.

If you have kids then I highly suggest adding colorful sprinkles to the scene. Our five year old absolutely LOVED this dessert and I did not feel too bad eating it myself, I mean hey, it’s a banana…that’s healthy right? LOL No, but seriously it is a lot better than sugary popscicles or fattening ice cream. Enjoy!

Good morning everybody! Oh my, I got a lot done over these past few days and I want to thank you all for checking in on me and for visiting JuBella while I was on my little hiatus! My mission for organization was quite successful and eye opening. I managed to clean every single inch of our little apt…from top to bottom, I now know where everything is and exactly what we have in our home and it feels great! I also finalized my daily schedule for home tasks, homeschooling the little one, blogging, creating, me time, etc. After I got everything cleared out I did manage to get in a bit of mini decorating(because that’s the real reward of cleaning up)! YAY…I still have a lot of loose ends to pull together(don’t you hate when you are cleaning and re-decorating and it seems once you get one thing done you notice something else that just does not quite fit in with your decor? This happened to me a lot) but I will be sure to share a few corners of our playful little home in a few weeks or so!

So I trust everyone had a wonderful weekend? I recently fixed this Banana Nut Bread which makes a sweet little treat for welcoming in the morning sunshine every now and then and goes great with some warm chai tea. The little bundt cake in the photo above is the banana nut muffin mix only it has chocolate chips in it(per my little ones request…and I must say that it was VERY good!) OK, Here’s the recipe:

Banana Nut Bread

Ingredients
1 3/4 C. Unbleached Flour
2 tsp. Baking Powder
1/2 tsp. Salt
1/4 tsp. Baking Soda
1/3 C. Butter or Margarine
2/3 C. Natural Turbinado(cane) Sugar
2 Eggs
2. C Ripe Bananas, mashed (about 4-5)
1/2 C. Chopped Walnuts
Chocolate Chips(optional)

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift together the first 4 ingredients(flour, baking powder, salt, & baking soda). Cream margarine. Then add sugar and continue to cream. Add eggs one at a time making sure to beat well after each egg. Now gradually mix in your sifted dry ingredients alternating between the flour mixture and your mashed bananas. Stir in your walnuts and chocolate chips if you are using them. Pour batter into a greased(non-stick spray) loaf pan or mini bundt cake pans. Bake until golden brown and center comes out clean. Enjoy! I am back to posting regularly now, so keep an eye out for your daily creative dosage!