Nutella And Banana Tarts
Chocolate and banana is a winning combination. Add a few macadamia nuts and sweet wholemeal pastry and you have this recipe for totally scrumptious Nutella and banana tarts. Wow your guests with something slightly more sophisticated than a Nutella and banana sandwich. Best eaten warm or soon after baking.
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Wholemeal Pastry
I’ve recently fallen in love with pastry. I’ve always enjoyed eating it, but hated making it. I found it tedious and the results were usually disappointing. Although my wholemeal pastry always tasted good, it crumbled terribly and was really difficult to use.
However, this year I’ve turned a corner and now find it less of a chore to make. And despite using different recipes I’ve had a number of successes. It’s taken me a long time, but now I want to make tarts – lots of them. I even bought six more tartlet tins for a recent pop-up I was catering for, which brings the count up to ten.
The game changer for me is this wholemeal pastry recipe where I use yoghurt as the binder. It produces a delicious flaky pastry that’s really easy to handle. Having said that it was the addition of eggs that initially made the difference and I sometimes still use eggs rather than yoghurt. This is mostly just because it’s nice to change things around a bit.
When I was sent a little Nutella book, 30 Nutella Recipes, a few weeks ago to see what I thought of it, I had no hesitation in deciding which recipe I was going to try first. Banana and Nutella tartlets it had to be.
Nutella And Banana Tarts
I didn’t follow the recipe exactly – no surprises there. Naturally I used some wholemeal flour in the pastry. I also went with one whole egg rather than two egg yolks. As I used a large duck egg, I had no need to add the required milk. And I found I only needed to use two rather than the three bananas stated.
The duck egg was actually a little too big and made for a rather damp mixture. An ordinary large hens egg is ideal.
I ate the first one whilst it was still warm from the oven and it was absolutely scrumptious. They had slightly caramelised around the edges and the banana and Nutella together made for a winning combination. I was very tempted to wolf down another one straight away, but restrained myself.
The tarts were almost as good cold. However, the bananas started to go brown after a couple of hours out of the oven. When I make these again, as I surely will, I will try dipping the banana slices in lemon juice which should help retain their colour.
The pastry made enough for eleven tartlets rather than the six stated in the recipe, but that was fine. The cases would keep for a while and I could use them for other purposes. However, I did feel that the quantities were a little off, not everyone wants lumps of spare pastry hanging around their fridge or freezer.
Of course, now I’m far more likely to use my own homemade chocolate nut spread. I’ve never been too keen on the ingredients used in Nutella, especially the palm oil.
Nutella And Banana Tarts: Top Tips
- If feeding a crowd, the pastry will make eleven tart cases. Just slice up another banana and use a bit more Nutella and extra macadamia nuts to fill them.
- The bananas start to go brown after a couple of hours. If not eating straight away, lightly toss the slices in lemon juice prior to baking.
- You can buy a set of ten centimetre tart tins* from Amazon. They’re well worth having.
Nutella Cookbook
The book, 30 Nutella Recipes, comes in the shape of a Nutella jar which is really rather fun. I liked the sturdy design with its thick, almost cardboard like pages that lie flat (ish) once opened. Each recipe is on one page with a rather delectable picture of the finished article on the opposite side.
The recipes themselves are really quite interesting and I will certainly be trying out a few more. The financiers as made recently by the Caked Crusader are definitely on my list as is the coconut coulants, tuiles and mango spring rolls.
If nothing else, this book shows you there is a lot more to Nutella than simply spreading it on bread. However, if you’re a real Nutella fan, this book is definitely for you.
Other Chocolate Banana Recipes You Might Like
- Bailey’s chocolate banana pie
- Banana chocolate ‘honey’ cake (vegan)
- Banana ricotta pancakes with chocolate sauce
- Chocolate banana cashew cake (vegan)
- Healthy chocolate mousse (vegan)
- Peanut butter, chocolate & banana quesadilla (vegan)
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Nutella And Banana Tarts
Ingredients
Pastry
- 180 g unsalted butter fridge cold
- 250 g flour (half wholemeal, half unbleached white).
- ⅛ tsp sea or rock salt
- 1 tbsp golden caster sugar (I used homemade vanilla sugar)
- 1 large egg (I used a duck egg)
Filling
- 6 tbsp chocolate hazelnut spread (I used Nutella)
- 2 bananas (medium or large)
- 50 g macadamia nuts
Instructions
Pastry
- In a large bowl, cut the butter into the flours. Add the salt and sugar.180 g unsalted butter, 250 g flour, ⅛ tsp sea or rock salt, 1 tbsp golden caster sugar
- Rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Break the egg into the bowl and stir it in to the flour mixture with a flat bladed knife.1 large egg
- Gather the dough together to form ball then flatten it in your hands to form a disc. Put it into a plastic bag and place in the fridge for half an hour to rest.
- Roll the pastry out and cut circles to fit six 10 cm tartlet tins (although I actually made 11).
- Bake at 200℃ (180℃ fan, 400℉, Gas 6) for 10 minutes.
Filling
- Spread 1 tbsp of Nutella over each of the six tartlet bases.6 tbsp chocolate hazelnut spread
- Cut the bananas into slices and lay a sixth of the slices over the Nutella in each tart.2 bananas
- Roughly chop the nuts and scatter the pieces over the banana.50 g macadamia nuts
- Pop back into the oven and bake for a further 10 minutes.
Notes
Nutrition Estimate
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Straight from the jar with a spoon! Mmmm!!
My mum just eats it from a spoon or with crepes 🙂
Jamie
straight out of the jar with a spoon! Really need to try some of these more sophisticated ways!
I do love nutella on toast however you cant beat a nutella and banana sandwich.
Straight from a jar with the biggest spoon i can find!! 🙂
Made into ice lolly’s called fudgesicles!
On English muffins, warm from the toaster mmmmmm
Smothered on the hairless chest of my other half 😀 lmao
ok now i’m blushing… it took me ages to get through the comments, you greedy lot! 😉 anyway, i like nutella straight out of the jar and i tell myself that by completely by-passing the bread/toast i’m keeping the carbs down and can therefore have twice as much nutella as i would have done! simple maths really! 😀
On toast with some marshmallows on top and then popped under the grill!
My daughter eats loads of nutella with a spoon straight out the jar
Love Nutella!! I make a little instant dessert with a digestive biscuit, spread of Nutella, topped with a sliced strawberry and a walnut half. Yum.
From the jar, on a spoon! Or on toasted muffins! Or as a cake filling! Or, or, or, Do I really have to choose???
Either straight from the jar or on strawberries. Delish!
I’ve only ever eaten it out the jar, so this would educate me lol
Can’t beat a banana, peanut butter and Nutella sandwich 🙂
I’m thrilled I found your blog. Wow that looks like quite the dessert, i know my husband would go bonkers for it! Nutella is something we always have on hand!
I really enjoyed my visit today, please stop by when you have a moment, I love company, and new friends are always welcome!
I am very impatient and Nutella is irresistible…so for me it is straight from the jar..no time for a spoon.. I use my fingers!
I prefer my Nutella melted inside of two warm crusts of a loaf of bread.. deeeelicious!! With love, Faye xx
Wouldn’t even think about eating crepes without Nutella!
With breadsticks – kind of a giant version of the chocolate kp dips I had as a child 🙂
sounds gross to some but tastes absolutely amazing = nutella on crumpets mmm
These look lovely – I love banana in baking but no one else in my family does. I suppose I could make these and eat them all myself!
It sounds very random but Nutella on Jacobs cream crackers is amazing! Me and my son love it.
My daughter would LOVE this! On holiday in Italy she ate Nutella Pizza. Its her new favourite way to eat it and we will be attempting to recreate at home..
on warm croissants – just like the French do…
With a spoon, straight from the jar!
I shouldn’t tell you this but straight out of the jar on a teaspoon!
with warm Croissants mmmmmmmm yummy 🙂
isn’t it funny how something simple like pastry can be such a chore and yet once you master its simplicity and get that light touch you need it can be a joy to make and play around with… these tarts really look fabulous and banana and nutella must be a match made in heaven… so I would say my fave way of eating nutella is how you’ve made them!
I wonder whether there’s a recipe in the book for Nutella frozen yoghurt, the version I made was really nice 🙂
with a spoon! haha failing that, mixed in with weetabix!
I made something similar tonight for Cooper using puff pastry, but I added peanut butter. He loved it!
These tartlets look heavenly!
I’m afraid I can’t narrow it down to just one. I love Nutella on toast, on strawberries, on cakes, in cakes, straight out of the jar… =)
I honestly mistook the picture of the book for a real nutella jar. I’d be pretty interested to see this book as my main (and favourite)way of eating nutella is straight from the jar…
These tarts look amazing – worth getting your pastry mojo working for – I have got better at pastry even though my last attempt was pitiful – but still avoid it where possible. I would made pastry for these tarts though
My favourite way? You’d probably have the blog closed for indecency if I told you……
On toast! Love it right from the jar too though!
@ashlallan
have a feeling this is going to be the most popular method 😉