Delicious Bananas Foster a La Mode

"A beautiful finale to cool your palate after enjoying a generous serving of SEAFOOD GUMBO-NEW ORLEANS STYLE. The Bananas Foster recipe appeared in Spring/99 issue of Gusto Manazine, compliments of Brennan's Restaurant, New Orleans. Double recipe to serve 8-10 persons."
 
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Ready In:
25mins
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • In a large skillet, over low heat, combine butter, sugar and cinnamon, stirring until sugar dissolves.
  • Add bananas, stirring gently until bananas begin to soften and brown.
  • Carefully add rum and liqueur, cooking until rum is hot.
  • Tip pan slightly and ignite rum.
  • When flames subside, remove bananas from pan and serve 4 pieces of banana with 1 scoop of ice cream Generously spoon warm sauce over top and serve immediately.

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Reviews

  1. This dessert is so easy and so wonderful. It is the perfect ending to any meal. When I really want to be bad I add some roasted chopped pecans, but it doesn't need any additional ingredients. I wish I could give it more than *5* stars.
     
  2. I made this sans liquor and flambe for the girls as a special dessert tonite. You should have seen their eyes! :-o They may never eat 'plain' bananas again, lol. I can't wait to fix this for dh (maybe one night with your Seafood for Two, mmmm!)...we first had Bananas Foster for an anniversary dinner over a decade ago and he still talks about it. Boy is he going to be surprised! (And if the girls thought it was an interesting way to fix bananas before, wait 'til they seem them go up in flames!!!!)
     
  3. My DH has made this for me several times. It tastes absolutely heavenly! The sauce is rich and buttery tasting and has a slight kick to it. If there is sauce left over, my DH likes to eat it over waffles the next morning.
     
  4. I had this dessert at a B & B on the weekend and it was absolutely heavenly ! Now I am going to try to replicate it at home using this recipe.....seems like all of the same ingredients. Can't wait to surprise hubby with this one !
     
  5. I reduced the recipe by half to serve 2 people. I used light brown sugar, added pinches of cinnamon and nutmeg, and substituted 1/4 cup water for the alcohol. It was dee-ee-lish served with vanilla ice cream, but I think a slice of homemade pound cake underneath it all would really send it over the top! Needs to be eaten immediately, does not keep well. Sharing my photo of it.
     
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  1. I reduced the recipe by half to serve 2 people. I used light brown sugar, added pinches of cinnamon and nutmeg, and substituted 1/4 cup water for the alcohol. It was dee-ee-lish served with vanilla ice cream, but I think a slice of homemade pound cake underneath it all would really send it over the top! Needs to be eaten immediately, does not keep well. Sharing my photo of it.
     
  2. OH MY! i was craving bananas but didnt want to have them with chocolate so i came to this. never had it before but man it was AWESOME! i didnt have ice cream but i did have lady fingers and heavy cream, so i whipped it up and put a nice dollop on top of the lady fingers and the bananas on top. SOOOOOO GOOD! oh and i replaced the rum and banana liquor for coffee liquor...still good lol
     
  3. This was wonderful! It came together very easily and tasted wonderful. I put it on top of cheesecake instead of ice cream and it just made dessert!
     

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