Chocolate covered PB banana bites

Need I say more? There's chocolate, peanut butter and banana, what more do you need in life?

I saw this recipe online the other day and had to give it a try with the kids. I'd like to say I got pictures of the finished product but sadly we ate them before I could get photographic evidence. Suffice it to say that they were good. Oh, and you can dip pretty much everything in chocolate and it's good. After we did bananas, the strawberries and marshmallows came next. 

Chocolate covered peanut butter banana bites:

Ingredients:

3 ripe large bananasabout 1/2 cup creamy no-salt added natural peanut (or almond) butter 10 ounces dark chocolate chips  2 tablespoons coconut oil 1/3 cup finely chopped peanuts (OPTIONAL) small popsicle sticks (or pretzel sticks or toothpicks)


Directions:
1. Line cookie sheet or pan with parchment paper (makes for easy clean-up!)
2. Melt chocolate chips and coconut oil in microwave on low heat (about 2 minutes, stir in the middle.)
3. Cut banana into 1" chunks and spread peanut butter on one side of each banana slice. 
4. Stack one banana on the other (peanut butter sides facing) and spear with a popsicle stick or tooth pick.
5. Dip fruit into chocolate/oil mixture, let excess drip off before placing on cookie sheet. Try to hold yourself back from eating them all as you dip - they're better once frozen!
6. Freeze for 1-3 hours or as long as you can hold out. My kids made it about 5 minutes during which time they were opening and closing the freezer asking "Is it ready yet?"

To give a sense of how far the chocolate can stretch, we made 3 large bananas, about 20 strawberries and 10 marshmallow stacks with our 10 oz. of chocolate/oil mixture and that was with a substantial amount of finger licking on the kids' part.

This was before chocolate dipping mayhem ensued as the kids discovered anything can be dipped in chocolate and be made better.