Banana Pastries Recipes

BANANA PASTRIES

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 425°F.
• In a large bowl mash bananas.
• Add in brown sugar, pecans, cinnamon, honey, almond extract, vanilla extract, nutmeg, and cloves. Mix thoroughly.
• Roll out the refrigerated pie crust on a large flat surface.
• Use a rolling pin to roll the crust out thinner. Thinner is better as it gives you more crust to gather into the center of each pastry.
• Cut the pie crust into triangular quarters using a sharp knife.
• Place the quarters onto a non-stick cooking sheet (sprayed with cooking spray if needed).
• Spoon a quarter of the banana mixture onto the center of each crust wedge.
• Gather the corners of each wedge in the center. Then gather, the new corners into the middle as well to create the rounded dumpling shape. Press the gathered corners down onto the middle of the dumpling.
• Bake 10-12 minutes at 425 F or until pastry begins to turn golden brown.
• Remove pastries from oven and allow to cool.
• Dust pastries with powdered sugar and serve.

CHOCOLATE AND BANANA PASTRIES

Steps:

• Place the chocolate in a saucepan with the milk and heat until just before boiling point, stirring until the chocolate has melted.
• In a bowl whisk together the egg yolks and sugar until light and creamy then stir in the flour.
• Then, while whisking, pour in the hot chocolate milk and whisk until well blended.
• Place the mixture in a double-boiler. Heat over simmering water, stirring constantly, until very thick (around 3 minutes).
• Remove from heat and stir until smooth. Place a piece of plastic wrap or baking paper over the surface to prevent a skin forming and chill (this can be overnight for baking the pastries fresh in the morning).
• Preheat oven to 425°F Roll out the pastry to 0.5cm thickness and cut into 8 rectangles (about 10cm x 8cm).
• Lightly score a rectangle 1cm inside the edges of each. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper and prick the bases a few times.
• Spread each inside the scoring line with about 1/8 of the chocolate custard.
• In a bowl mix together the honey and lemon juice.
• Halve the bananas lengthwise and toss with the lemon honey and top each pastry with 2 pieces of banana.
• Bake for 15 minutes. Brush the top with extra honey to glaze and cool slightly on a wire rack before serving.