This dessert dish has bananas and ice cream as its fundamental ingredients. The banana is cut in half lengthways - which is where the "split" part of the name comes from - and then placed in a long dish. Dishes made especially for serving banana splits can be bought.
The classic recipe tops the banana split with scoops of the three traditional ice cream flavours; vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. The ice cream is then topped, respectively, with chocolate sauce, strawberry and pineapple. The dish is then garnished with whipped cream, chopped nuts and a maraschino cherry. This is the simplest version; there are more complex recipes.
The first banana split was made in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, by David Evans Strickler in 1904.
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