These perfect tiny banana bread ice cream shooters made with caramel sauce and walnuts are the sweetest thing you will ever put in your shooter glasses! And they take almost no time to put together…now THAT’S sweet!
I have so much to explain about these little lovelies pictured above! Let me start by saying exactly what they are: crumbled up banana bread layered with a little vanilla ice cream and a few walnuts, all drizzled with caramel sauce.
And served in shooter glasses, so they are just the right amount of dessert for those times when you’ve had a lovely satisfying dinner but still want just a bite or two of something sweet. That’s the easy part to explain…but there’s more to the story!
I got the idea for these one day after I had made banana bread and was thinking about some creative things to do with it, and in my head the idea came out as “Banana Bread Ice Cream Shots.”
As in, a little bit of banana bread and ice cream and other things served in a shot glass, just like I described it above.
There was only one issue…I didn’t have any shot glasses. Nope, I’m a red wine kind of girl, and so while I have loads of wine glasses, there was not one shot glass on the premises.
So I ordered myself some, but when they arrived the Southern daughter explained to me that I had purchased shooter glasses. Not shot glasses. Shooter glasses.
Apparently there is a significant difference that people younger than I know all about, and clearly this was not part of the curriculum way back when I was in school.
So my recipe stayed exactly the same, except it was now known as “Banana Bread Ice Cream Shooters.”
And since the Southern daughter was so helpful with the terminology, I decided to recruit her to help me with the picture. I had a vision of taking a picture just as the caramel sauce was being drizzled on to the ice cream.
Which was already melting. So I clearly needed reinforcements, and I have to say, she has steady hands and did a great job of Pouring Under Pressure.
My caramel sauce needed to be heated just a little to make it pourable, which had the happy result of having the ice cream melt around the sauce and into the crumbled banana bread.
This recipe is of course endlessly customizable.
You can switch out the vanilla ice cream with butter pecan, or caramel. You can switch out the banana bread with chocolate cake, or little scoops of apple pie. You can switch out the caramel sauce with chocolate sauce (chocolate and bananas….mmmmmmmm!)
You can leave out the walnuts, or switch them out with pecans or almonds or raisins or chocolate chips. But if you have some banana bread lurking around, I highly recommend this combo.
In either a shot glass or a shooter glass…your choice! I hope this has been as educational for you as it was for me.
OTHER ICE CREAM RECIPES THAT WE THINK ARE SWEET!
- Easy Banana Bread Ice Cream. More frosty banana bread fun!
- Strawberry Banana Sorbet. Scrumptious and healthy.
- Banana Rum Raisin Ice Cream. No ice cream maker needed!
Banana Bread Ice Cream Shooters
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Yield: 6 1x
Category: Dessert
Method: No Cook
Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
These perfect tiny banana bread ice cream shooters made with caramel sauce and walnuts are the sweetest thing you will ever put in your shooter glasses!
Ingredients
- 1 slice of banana bread, crumbled into small pieces
- 1 cup vanilla ice cream
- 6 walnut halves
- 1/2 cup of your favorite caramel sauce, heated as necessary to be pourable
Instructions
- Assemble as follows: about a heaping teaspoon each of banana bread, ice cream and walnuts. Repeat for as many layers as you can get into your glasses, which should be two or three. Leave a little room at the top for the caramel sauce.
- Drizzle caramel sauce on top of each serving and top with a walnut half. Serve at once.
Notes
Need to add something to your kitchen equipment to make this recipe? Below are some of the items we used in the Framed Cooks kitchen to help cook this up. These are affiliate links to things we use and love, which helps to pay for all that bacon I keep buying!
Updated (and made even more delicious!) from a previously published Framed Cooks post!
Well, I got an education in shot/shooter glasses, too! Thanks for the lesson and for raising such a smart girl! :) I recently found sea salted caramel chips in the baking aisle of our grocery store, right next to the good ole chocolate chips and have been adding them to my banana muffin recipe. (I’ve actually been adding them to my brownies, too) Have to say, it is a brilliant addition. The bread version would likely also benefit from those chips and make for extra caramel-y shooters. Thanks for the great idea!
Oooh, sea salt caramel chips! Things just keep getting better in the baking aisle! :) Let me know if you need any shooter glasses – I have LOTS!