Macaroon Bananas

Preparation info
  • 20

    pastries, 4 × 1 inch each
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef

By Bo Friberg

Published 2003

  • About

I am somewhat surprised that I rarely see these pastries in either shops or cookbooks. They were a standard item in many German pastry shops when I first picked up the idea back in the 1960s. With banana stylishly scripted on top, Macaroon Bananas are a great way to add variety to a fancy French pastry assortment. They are easy to pick up and eat with your hands, and they taste even better one or two days after they are made, when the macaroon has absorbed some moisture from the bana