National Banana Split Day (August 25)
Guest Blogger: Danasha Wise
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August 25th is National Banana Split Day. Celebrate with these tips and a recipe from Gourmand World Award Winning Chef Maria Liberati.
A 23-year-old pharmacist at Tassel’s Pharmacy in Latrobe, Pennsylvania created the FIRST EVER banana split in 1904! David Evans Strickler loved creating various kinds of sundaes at a nearby store’s soda fountain. His first “banana-based triple ice cream sundae” sold for 10 cents, which at the time was double the cost of any other sundaes.
What’s a Classic Banana Split?
Served in a banana boat, a banana is split in half lengthwise, laid in the banana boat and slowly awaits its fate. Slowly, one scoop of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry gets piled high on the split banana and now here come the delicious toppings. Crushed pineapple tops the strawberry ice cream, chocolate syrup covers the vanilla ice cream (I mean, DUH), and strawberry topping gently covers the chocolate scoop. The banana split isn’t completed without a heaping of whipped cream, crushed nuts, and a pretty maraschino cherry on top. And that is the classic banana split!
Make your own!
Run and grab a bushel of bananas, various flavored ice cream, toppings and have FUN! In your banana split substitute, a scoop of strawberry ice cream for Maria Liberati’s lovely berry yogurt sorbet for a twist on a classic! Check out the sorbet recipe here: http://www.marialiberati.com/2016/07/05/a-berry-yogurt-sorbet/.
Invite your friends over for an impromptu ice cream social and make sure you take many pictures and post them on social media with the hashtag #NationalBananaSplitDay!
Enjoy!
Celebrity Chef/Award Winning Author-blogger Maria Liberati is the author of the Gourmand World Award Winning book series The Basic Art of Italian Cooking. She is executive editor of The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati and blog at http://www.marialiberati.com/blog2- winner of culinary travel blog of the year 2013 by the NY Travel Writers’ Society, and with 300,000 worldwide subscribers
