This is one of those recipes…
One of those recipes that’s impossible to stop eating until every last chocolate bite has disappeared. Rich dark chocolate, complemented by creamy banana filling…
I made two batches (for five of us who were watching the Olympics last night). One batch was just banana and a second batch was peanut butter banana, where I blended a big spoonful of crunchy peanut butter into the filling.
There were no leftovers.
Monkey See Monkey… Eat
The summer after I finished third grade, my family took a trip to Vermont and stopped at the Ben & Jerry’s factory to see how ice cream is made. (I think that same summer, we visited a brewery and got to see how beer is made. It was a very educational summer for me!)
After touring the factory came the best part: sampling ice cream. We tried chocolate, we tried Cherry Garcia, and finally we tried their #1 seller, Chunky Monkey. I decided this flavor was my favorite, mostly because I thought the name was funny. The tour guide then informed us that this particular product had a different name in Japan; it was simply called Banana Nut. Apparently, if you try to translate the name to Japanese, you get “Chunks of Monkey.”
Ever since that trip, whenever I see anything chocolate-and-banana flavored, my mind automatically thinks of chunks of monkey.
So… who’s hungry now? 
Chocolate Monkey Bites
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup virgin coconut oil, melted
- 20-30 nunaturals vanilla stevia drops (or 3-4 tbsp liquid sweetener, such as agave)
- 1/2 a banana (see “nutrition info” link below for all substitution notes in this recipe)
- tiny pinch salt
- optional: 1-2 tbsp peanut butter (or pb2, or another nut butter)
Combine first three ingredients in a bowl and stir until it makes a chocolate sauce. Pour a little of the sauce (saving the rest for later) into the bottoms of cupcake liners, mini cupcake liners, or candy molds. Then freeze 8-10 minutes. Meanwhile, blend (or mash and stir with a fork) the banana, salt, and optional ingredients. Take liners out of the freezer and top each with banana mixture. Now evenly distribute the rest of the chocolate and re-freeze until solid. This recipe makes 9-10 mini cups (as shown in the photos).
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I loved Mounds candy so I definitely want this with a coconut filling. Yum, yum!
oh my gosh — INCREDIBLE! i love banana/peanut butter combo — especially with chocolate!! 🙂
I just made chocolate covered frozen bananas today! Yum. Mixed regular bittersweet chocolate with coconut oil, dipped the bananas, and covered in unsweetened coconut flakes.
I love all things coconut, I do think the best combo with chocolate is coconut. Coconut almond joy type filling???? Have you done that already?
I love coconut larabars too. I am getting off topic 🙂
Looks very yummy. I was looking through some of your milkshake recipes and i saw one for a cookie dough style and it called for pb cookie dough, is there somewhere you can actually buy instead of making it??
Buy the cookie dough, you mean? If it’s the shake I’m thinking, it’s amazing even without the cookie dough so you can easily omit. You could probably find one of those pre-made refrigerated Pillsbury cookie dough tubes at the store, but obviously that wouldn’t be vegan (if that’s important to you).
Chocolate, PB, and caramel, maybe with some nut pieces, kinda like a snickers.
Or PB and Strawberry jelly…. BTW u should try and make a faux pop tart with PB and J in it… my dream haha 🙂
I also like the ice cream idea, I will always like ice cream with anything.
Banana’s Foster!!!
I would love caramel I’ve tried Vegan caramel recipes with no luck! !
Katie I went on a Vegan food crawl in LA and the bag of goodies had dark chocolate agave sauce….was so good!!! Maybe ill use that as the sweeter for this….I could drink that stuff lol
Katie! I have been waiting since you posted this for a free day to make them. And OHHHH MY!! No one would ever believe me if i said there was no plain chocolate in them and no sugar!! Fantastic recipe, and so simple too. Love how lovely the banana and peanut butter tastes after freezing. I mean i was eating it out of the bowel before i added it 😛 But after the freezing it seemed even more salty and delicious. I made a second batch with less sweetener for my bitter chocolate loving boyfriend. Thank you!! I want to try adding desiccated coconut to the banana mixture as well or instead of peanut butter.
LAVENDER peanut butter cup :))))))) lavender and chocolate is the best combo! and pb makes everything better.
I made these today!! (well, I hardened the chocolate like that and then took a bite of banana with it)… very yummy!!! also, I just made some healthy chocolate “milkshake”/smoothie drink thing and blended the rest of the steamed broccoli left over from my dinner into it… thought you’d appreciate :p
I feel like I’m the only person who doesn’t like peanut butter and chocolate together. But almond butter and chocolate, that I understand.