If you want a dessert that’s bound to impress the gentry, then it’s Bananas with Coconut Cream or, in our parlance, Guineos con Crema de Coco. Strikingly simple and sumptuous.  For r dessert that tops the end of a fine meal, this is it.

Let me add that this recipe calls for cream of coconut as a main ingredient. Today you can find cream of coconut in most stores and supermarkets. Goya makes a good brand; and a company called Native Forest has an organic type. As for the peaches noted in the recipe, it can be fresh and, if you can’t find those, canned peaches will do.

GUINENOS CON CREMA DE COCO
(Bananas with Coconut Cream)

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons butter
4 bananas, peeled and sliced in haff lengthwise
1 tablespoon lime juice (about ½ a lime)
½ cup cream of coconut
Fresh peach halves for garnish

Instructions:

  1. Melt butter in a large saucepan or skillet.
  2.  Add bananas and sauté briefly until well coated.
  3.  Sprinkle with lime juice.
  4.  Remove bananas to a serving dish and spoon cream of coconut over them.
  5.  Garnish with peach halves and serve.
    4 or more servings.