No-Bake Banana and Peanut Butter Lollipops with Dark Chocolate

Last month Ceri made choco­late peanut but­ter balls for Choco­late Week and we fea­tured them on City­line. I’m not gonna lie but the City­line crew (and a few other guests of the show) lost their minds over them. We snacked on them as we pre­pared them for our seg­ment and then con­tin­ued to gob­ble them up through­out the rest of the tap­ing. By the time we left the stu­dio, I ate about half a dozen and had got­ten choco­late all over the stu­dio and on a few of my fel­low guests. After that day, I wanted to come up with  a ver­sion that was slightly heathier–not mix­ing confectioner’s sugar into the peanut butter–and equally as portable. After all, have you been read­ing all the lat­est news on the dan­gers of sugar like here in the Globe and Mail. I hadn’t even read that piece and I wanted to omit the sugar. I think I’m a trend set­ter. Ok, you’re right. I’m not.

Even though the advice against too much sugar has been mount­ing for years, I still think I’m pretty smart for mak­ing these lit­tle gems. Maybe it’s because I’ve stuck them onto lol­lipop sticks or the fact that I’ve also used fruit, but Scar­lett really loved these. You can’t deny the hap­pi­ness achieved when a banana and peanut but­ter hook up and if you add choco­late, you’ve got your­self snack ecstasy. Did you notice I called this a snack, not a treat? Since dark choco­late is full of antiox­i­dants, min­er­als like potas­sium and iron and can help con­trol blood sugar, I’m not going to con­sider this lolli some­thing only reserved for dessert. Unless you eat as many as I do, then it’s def­i­nitely a treat because you’re not meant to eat that much dark choco­late in one sitting.

1 ripe

Serve with a tall glass of milk and try to eat just one. Just try.