More ice cream is coming your way! I hope you aren’t getting tired of it yet.
Today’s recipe is for a delicious, simple ice cream sundae created by Top Chef All-Star, author and busy mom Antonia Lofaso. I have always loved Top Chef and it’s amazing to see the careers chefs build because of the show.
Antonia recently teamed up with Breyers to create 5 amazingly easy and delicious family friendly recipes inspired by her childhood and favorite ingredients. All the recipes feature Breyers Natural Vanilla Ice Cream which is now made only with milk and cream sourced from farmers who do not treat their cows with artificial growth hormones.
The vanilla beans that go into this sinfully simple ice cream are 100% obtained from Rainforest Alliance Certified vanilla beans and sustainable farmed sources. Pretty awesome, right? Because much of the time, there’s just not enough hours in the day to make homemade ice cream so knowing we can choose something that’s better for our family and the environment is a major plus.
All of the recipes seriously scream summer and it was incredibly hard to choose just one to feature this week.
After some family polling, we decided on the Banana Pudding Sundae. This sweet little sundae took about 5 minutes from start to finish and was a total crowd pleaser. The kids were hanging on my legs, begging for more.
It starts off with Breyers Natural Vanilla Ice Cream and is topped with caramelized bananas and vanilla wafers to simply recreate the childhood classic, banana pudding. The bananas were sweet and when combined with a bite of cookie, tasted like banana bread topped with ice cream. Honestly, I didn’t think I would enjoy it as much as I did. Sort of didn’t want to share with those little beggers.
The combination of temperatures and textures made this perfection for me and I predict it will be making many appearances around here this summer.
I have to share these last two photos of my little assistant. I told him I was going to take some pictures quick then we could eat. He disappeared and reappeared in a flash with his new camera he got for his birthday in hand. He thought we needed an extreme close up.
Gosh I love this boy. He’s going to be 5 on Sunday and I’m trying to keep it together.
*Disclaimer: the ice cream was provided to me free of charge but all opinions are my own.
- 1/2 large ripe banana, cut into 4 equal pieces
- 1 Tbsp. turbinado sugar
- 1 tsp. butter
- 1 cup Breyers® Natural Vanilla Ice Cream
- 4 vanilla wafer cookies
- Put banana pieces on a baking sheet and sprinkle flat sides with turbinado sugar. Melt butter in a small nonstick skillet and sauté bananas.
- To assemble each, scoop Breyers® Natural Vanilla Ice Cream into a small wide rimmed glass. Then wedge 2 cookies on either side and top with sautéed bananas.
