The easiest braai dessert recipe — chocolate and marshmallow stuffed bananas cooked in foil on the fire. Gooey, quick, and always a hit
There’s something magic about ending a braai around the fire, coals glowing low, everyone still chatting with a plate in hand — and this is exactly the dessert for that moment. Banana Chocolate Braai Pudding takes almost no effort and delivers pure, gooey reward: soft roasted banana, melted chocolate, and pillowy marshmallow, all self-contained in its own foil parcel. No dishes, no fuss, no excuses not to make it.
Looking for the easiest braai dessert in your recipe book? This Banana Chocolate Braai Pudding is a five-minute-prep, ten-minute-cook showstopper that turns simple bananas into a molten chocolate-marshmallow treat, cooked right on the coals in their own foil jacket. It’s the kind of recipe that gets requested every single braai.
Great desserts don’t have to be complicated — sometimes the best ones are the simplest. This Banana Chocolate Braai Pudding proves it: a whole banana, split and stuffed with chocolate and marshmallow, wrapped in foil and left to work its magic over hot coals. What comes out is a warm, silky, chocolate-laced banana that needs nothing more than a splash of cream or a nip of liqueur to finish it off.
Ingredients:
- 4 ripe, unpeeled bananas
- 60g semi-sweet chocolate chips or chunks (chocolate with almonds works beautifully)
- 60g miniature marshmallows
- Whipped cream or ice cream, to serve (optional)
- A splash of Van der Hum liqueur, to serve (optional)
- Aluminium foil
Instructions:
- Slit unpeeled bananas lengthwise, stuff with chocolate and mini marshmallows, wrap tightly in foil, and braai for 10 minutes over hot coals, turning halfway.
- Serve in the foil with cream, ice cream, or a splash of Van der Hum.
How to Make Chocolate Marshmallow Braai Bananas (South African Campfire Dessert)
Equipment
- Tin Foil Heavy duty is best
Ingredients
- 4 ripe unpeeled bananas
- 60g semi-sweet chocolate chips or chunks chocolate with almonds works beautifully
- 60g miniature marshmallows
- whipped cream or ice cream to serve (optional)
- a splash of Van der Hum liqueur to serve (optional)
Instructions
- Get your coals ready: build a steady bed of hot coals before you start prepping —braai pudding waits for no one.
- Slit the bananas: keeping the peel on, cut a slit lengthwise along each banana with a sharp knife, almost through to the other side but not quite
- Stuff generously: press chocolate and marshmallows into each slit, packing them intight, then close the banana back around the filling.
- Wrap tightly: wrap each stuffed banana snugly in foil, sealing the ends so no melted chocolate escapes.
- Braai the packets: place on the grid over the coals and cook for 10 minutes total, turning once at the halfway mark.
- Rest briefly: pull off the grid and let sit for a minute — the filling stayslava-hot longer than the foil suggests.
- Serve: open carefully (steam will billow) and serve straight from thefoil, topped with cream or ice cream and a splash of Van der Hum if you like.