6 tropical fruit splits with and Recipes

bananas, sliced, tropical fruit salad, chilled and drained, chopped walnuts

dark rum, boiling-hot water, vanilla, sugar, unsalted butter, firm-ripe mango, peeled, papaya, peeled, halved, and seeded, fresh pineapple, peeled and cored, ripe finger bananas or 6 small regular bananas, chili powder, chile-macadamia brittle, premium vanilla ice cream, garnish: toasted fresh coconut shavings or toasted sweetened flaked coconut

gingerroot, peeled and roughly chopped, heavy cream, vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped, sugar, hawaiian golden pineapple, peeled, cored , and cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices, ripe champagne mangoes, peeled, pitted , and cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices, baby bananas, peeled and cut in 1/2, kiwi, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch thick slices, gooseberries, mint, leaves only and chopped, fresh pomegranate juice (from 1 11-oz pomegranate), sable bretons

unsalted macadamia nuts, honey, ripe pineapple, peeled, cored , and cut into 1/4-inch pieces, ripe kiwi fruits, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces, ripe papayas, peeled, seeded , and cut into 1-inch pieces, sugar, vanilla bean, split and scraped (preferably tahitian), freshly squeezed lime juice (not the bottled kind ), dark rum, heavy cream, dark muscovado sugar or 1 tbsp dark brown sugar