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Dessert for 4

Banana Cream Dessert

Mashed bananas and sweetened cream combine with gelatin and liqueur for a softly set chilled dessert.

Typical price

$1.38for 4 servings

$0.34 per serving$1.38 for 4

Typical price: Salefork's estimate of an everyday US shelf price for each ingredient. Pick your city to price it from this week's ad.

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What it costs

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IngredientAmountCost
Bananas$0.62/lb typical0.85 lb$0.52Typical price
Heavy cream$0.22/oz typical0.5 oz$0.11Typical price
Total for the servings shown$1.38

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Ingredients

  • 3 sized bananas or 2 large-sized bananas
  • 1/2 us pint double cream
  • 1 1/2 oz caster sugar
  • 3/4 oz leaf gelatine
  • 1 tbsp warm water
  • 1 wineglassful benedictine or maraschino liqueur
  • pink food coloring

Steps

  1. Soak the leaf gelatin in the warm water for 5 minutes.
  2. Mash the bananas with the sugar, liqueur, and food coloring until smooth.
  3. Warm 2 tablespoons of the cream in a small saucepan over low heat, then stir in the softened gelatin until dissolved.
  4. Stir the gelatin mixture into the bananas until evenly combined.
  5. Whip the remaining cream until thick, then fold it into the banana mixture.
  6. Pour the mixture into a dish and chill for 30 minutes, until softly set.

Swaps

  • Heavy cream for Evaporated or condensed milkabout $0.08/oz less at typical prices

Ingredient list based on the Wikibooks Cookbook (CC BY-SA 4.0). Steps and description written by Salefork.

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