Bananas foster is a great, warm dessert, which is easy to make and fun to light on fire.
Course: Dessert
Keyword: banana, brown sugar, cinnamon, dark rum
Ingredients
1/4cupbutter
1cupbrown sugar
1teaspooncinnamon
1/4teaspoonsalt
4bananas
1/4cupdark rum
vanilla ice creamfor serving
Instructions
Combine the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt in a large skillet (you'll need to fit the bananas in there later, too) over low heat.
As the butter melts, keep whisking the ingredients together until they're smooth and fully combined.
Slice the peeled bananas in half lengthwise and crosswise to get four equal pieces out of each banana.
Add the bananas to the sauce and gently stir to coat them in the sugar mixture.
Let them cook for about five minutes or until the bananas are fully warmed through.
Now, you could skip this next step and go straight to the ice cream, but I highly recommend doing it.
Remove the bananas from the heat, and drizzle the rum over the top. Using a long match or a wand lighter, light the surface of the liquid on fire (you'll barely be able to see a flame, and you'll be able to hear a soft whooshing noise). Let the fire burn until it burns itself out.
Serve the bananas over scoops of vanilla ice cream, making sure to drizzle the sugar mixture over top, too.
Refrigerate any leftovers to reheat and use later on.