Y’all know how much I loved my friend Pam’s Reese’s Banana Bread Muffins, right? Something else I’ve become a little obsessed with different flavors of nut butters! Until a few weeks ago, I had never tried Nutella, Biscoff, or any other kind of exotic peanut butter. I’m a Peter Pan girl and I lived in ignorant bliss for nearly 50 years! Then, in the space of a few weeks several blogs I follow posted recipes using Nutella. I bought a jar and loved it! Then, I had to go on this cruddy diet so trust me – THAT was out. But this is my week to increase my calorie intake to a somewhat normal level and I’ve been looking around the grocery store when I visit experimenting with other “new” food products. Earlier this week, in the produce I found these mini-bananas. They are about 2 bites worth, taste delicious, and when you eat one, it gives you a shot of “sweet” without all the extra calories that bananas have. I would say that kids would like these as well because they are kid-sized.
I was all set to use several mini-bananas and make some more of Pam’s muffins but as I stood at the fridge peering in to see what I could find, I saw some crescent rolls that needed to be used up within the next day or two because they would go out of date during my next 2 week less than normal person calorie period. I pulled them out and laid them down by the bananas as a matter of convenience and since Mr. Picky-eater made a Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter sandwich this morning for breakfast, it was also sitting nearby. I had a moment, I guess and thought I could put them all together and make a warm ooey-gooey piece of paradise – or a hot mess whichever came first. Here is what I did:
Banana Nut Butter Crescents
1 can crescent rolls
Mini-bananas
Flavored nut butter
Lemon juice
Almonds – optional
As you can see I put ALL the flavored nut butters we have in the house and you could easily use any one of them. I used the dark chocolate peanut butter because that is what was opened. I also didn’t have any fresh lemons so I just used the bottled kind – you don’t even have to use that at all if you don’t care to. First I chopped up the almonds.
I set the oven at 350 F and rolled out the crescent rolls. Then I sliced a banana. I used a knife because while the peel is thin, it’s a tough little dickens. I sprinkled on a little lemon juice.
Then I spread on the butter – I didn’t pay much attention to how well I put in on.
Sprinkled on the almonds – only on some of them because Mr. Picky-eater doesn’t like them.
On the first one, I rolled it up like a traditional crescent roll.
Then on the others I did this:
I folded the wide end onto the banana:
Then the short end:
Finally, I smooshed up the sides and tried to seal them as best I could. They look a little like rolls.
Then I cooked them for 20 minutes and this is how they turned out!
These tasted sooooooooooo good, I ate two right away and that’s why there is a fork in the picture. So easy – so few ingredients – so delicious! And the dark chocolate peanut butter was just perfect!
I love Nutella but I’ve never tried the chocolate peanut butter. I’ve never used the crescent rolls but I always have small amounts of pie crust dough in the freezer which would probably be pretty good, too. Good idea.
Lillian
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I bet it would! The dark chocolate peanut better is really very good – As you can see some of the stuff seeped out of a few of them because I didn’t fix it well on the sides, but I put them in the fridge and they are just as good cold!
Haha isn’t it such an awesome feeling discovering nut butters? LOVE IT! 😀
This looks like a delicious chocolate crescent roll!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
It IS an awesome feeling!!
What a way to increase your calorie intake!
Yep and I enjoyed every morsel!! 🙂
Oh wow. This looks delicious! I’ve seen these made with chocolate chips and marshmallows (like a smore!). I want to make them all, lol.
That sounds wonderful! Maybe I’ll try that next time – in 2 more weeks! 🙂
I think I can make that in my easy bake oven, as my boss calls it. I will have to let you know how that comes out. I will have to make the dough myself. Cool recipe. 🙂
I want to see a picture when you are done!!!
OK!
OMG! Diet or no diet, none of the ingredients on that table are within my normal calorie load. But I do LOVE them and I love what you created. I’ll just come over for a quick bite. 🙂
That would be lovely – except my son-in-law ate most of them last night! 🙂 I’m kind of glad because I had 2 and needed no more!
Kelli, I love that you just used what you had in the fridge! I tried using crescent rolls with nutella one time and it just made a huge mess. Never thought about folding up the sides and sealing it! Will have to give it another go.
It sooooooooo worth it Joan! Some looked good and some (that I didn’t seal well) had nutella run out but my son in law said it really didn’t matter, he ate them all!
Oh that sounds wonderful! I sooo love each of these ingredients – putting them together HAS to be fantastic! Thanks so much for linking up at Weekend Potluck!
Thank you Marsha! My son-in-law ate them ALL Thursday night – straight out of the fridge. Of course, I had to do quality control so I ate 2 but still – he ate 6 in one sitting!