Bananas Foster Surprise Cupcakes Recipes

BANANAS FOSTER CUPCAKES

Steps:

• For the Bananas:.
• In a saute pan over medium heat, combine the butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon.
• Cook until butter melts and sugar is dissolved (4 to 5 minutes).
• Add the banana slices and cook until tender, turning once for 1 to 2 minutes per side.
• Stir together rum and vanilla.
• Turn off the burner and add the rum mixture to the pan.
• Using a long match, light the alcohol by placing the flame just in the outer edge of the pan.
• Stand as far back as possible. The flame should extingish in a few seconds.
• Gently shake the pan from side to side to coat the bananas with the sauce.
• Spoon the bananas into a bowl and set aside.
• For the Cupcakes:.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy.
• In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt.
• Add eggs, vanilla, rum and banana mixture. Mix well.
• Add flour mixture alternately with sour cream; blend thoroughly but do not overmix.
• Pour into prepared cupcake pans.
• Bake 20 - 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Cool for 1- minutes in pan on rack. Remove and cool completely before frosting.
• For the frosting:.
• Beat together cream cheese, butter, cinnamon and vanilla on medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Add about half the powdered sugar and beat until mixed well. Then gradually add the remaining powdered sugar until you reach a spreading consistency.

BANANAS FOSTER SURPRISE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream the butter, sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the bananas, buttermilk, lemon juice and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; add to creamed mixture just until moistened., Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 375° until a toothpick inserted in cupcake comes out clean, 18-22 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., In a small bowl, combine the filling ingredients. Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag; insert a very small tip. Fill with caramel filling. Push the tip through the top to fill each cupcake., For frosting, in a large saucepan, combine brown sugar and cream. Bring to a boil over medium-low heat. Stir in baking soda; cook and stir until smooth. Stir in butter and extract. Remove from the heat; cool slightly. Transfer to a small bowl; refrigerate until chilled, at least 30 minutes., Beat frosting on high until thickened, 15-20 minutes. Top cupcakes with frosting, banana slices and whipped cream; sprinkle with turbinado sugar.

BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Melt butter in a 10-inch heavy skillet over low heat. Add brown sugar, allspice and nutmeg and stir until sugar dissolves. Add banana liqueur and bring sauce to simmer. Add bananas and cook for 1 minute on each side, carefully spooning sauce over bananas as they are cooking. Remove bananas from pan to a serving dish. Bring sauce to a simmer and carefully add the rum. If the sauce is very hot, the alcohol will flame on its own. If not, using stick flame, carefully ignite and continue cooking until flame dies out, approximately 1 to 2 minutes. If sauce is too thin, cook for 1 to 2 minutes until it is syrupy in consistency. Add orange zest and stir to combine. Immediately spoon the sauce over bananas and serve. Serve with waffles, crepes, or ice cream.

BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a heavy skillet over a medium-high heat. Add the brown sugar. Stir together and cook for a minute or two. Pour in the cream and stir it around to combine.
• Peel the bananas and slice them on the bias inside the peel. Drop the slices into the pan. Next, add the chopped nuts and stir them into the sauce. Then - and this is where you need to be a little careful - stir in the rum. Let it start to bubble, and then carefully use a long lighter to ignite it. (Be sure to have a lid handy in case you need to extinguish the flame.) Let the fire burn and go out (it'll only take about 30 seconds or so), and then stir in the cinnamon at the end. You may also cook the mixture without flambeing it.
• Spoon it over a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream and enjoy immediately.
• Spoon bananas Foster over French toast, waffles or crepes. Substitute peaches, pears or cherries for the bananas. Of course, then it probably wouldn't be considered bananas Foster.

BANANAS FOSTER CUPCAKES

Steps:

• For the Bananas:.
• In a saute pan over medium heat, combine the butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon.
• Cook until butter melts and sugar is dissolved (4 to 5 minutes).
• Add the banana slices and cook until tender, turning once for 1 to 2 minutes per side.
• Stir together rum and vanilla.
• Turn off the burner and add the rum mixture to the pan.
• Using a long match, light the alcohol by placing the flame just in the outer edge of the pan.
• Stand as far back as possible. The flame should extingish in a few seconds.
• Gently shake the pan from side to side to coat the bananas with the sauce.
• Spoon the bananas into a bowl and set aside.
• For the Cupcakes:.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy.
• In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt.
• Add eggs, vanilla, rum and banana mixture. Mix well.
• Add flour mixture alternately with sour cream; blend thoroughly but do not overmix.
• Pour into prepared cupcake pans.
• Bake 20 - 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Cool for 1- minutes in pan on rack. Remove and cool completely before frosting.
• For the frosting:.
• Beat together cream cheese, butter, cinnamon and vanilla on medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Add about half the powdered sugar and beat until mixed well. Then gradually add the remaining powdered sugar until you reach a spreading consistency.

ISLAND BANANAS FOSTER CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Allow butter and eggs to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, line twenty-four 2-1/2-inch muffin cups with paper bake cups. In a medium bowl stir together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large mixing bowl beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar, about 1/4 cup at a time, beating until combined. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Alternately add flour mixture and the 3/4 cup coconut milk to butter mixture, beating on low speed after each addition just until combined. Fold in the 3/4 cup coconut and the rum.
• Spoon batter into prepared cups, filling each about three-fourths full. Use the back of a spoon to smooth out batter in cups.
• Bake about 20 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool cupcakes in muffin cups on wire racks for 5 minutes. Remove cupcakes from muffin cups. Cool completely on wire racks.
• For the topping: In a large skillet melt butter over medium heat. Stir in brown sugar, cinnamon, and, if desired, nutmeg. Add bananas; toss gently to coat. Cook and stir for 1 to 2 minutes or until bananas are heated through. Meanwhile, in a small saucepan heat rum over low heat just until rum almost simmers; remove from heat. If desired, use a long match to carefully ignite the rum.* Once the flame dies down, pour rum into banana mixture. Gently stir in vanilla.
• Spoon Bananas Foster Topping over warm cupcakes. If desired, pipe or spoon whipped cream onto cupcakes and sprinkle with additional coconut. Makes 24 (2-1/2-inch) cupcakes.

BANANAS FOSTER CAKE

Steps:

• 1 Heat oven to 350°. Heat 1/4 cup butter and 1 tablespoon rum in rectangular pan, 13 x 9 x 2 inches, in oven, until butter is melted. Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over butter. Arrange bananas evenly over brown sugar sprinkle evenly with pecans. 2 Beat cake mix, water, 1/2 cup rum, 1/3 cup butter, the cinnamon and eggs in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds beat on medium speed 2 minutes. Pour batter over pecan mixture. 3 Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Immediately run knife around side of pan to loosen cake. Turn pan upside down onto heatproof serving plate leave pan over cake 1 minute so topping can drizzle over cake. Cool 30 minutes. Serve warm or cool. Store covered in refrigerator.High Altitude (3500 to 6500 feet): Heat oven to 375°. Decrease melted butter to 2 tablespoons. Add 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour to dry cake mix. Bake 38 to 43 minutes.1 Serving: Calories 345 (Calories from Fat 145) Fat 16g (Saturated 6g) Cholesterol 60mg Sodium 280mg Carbohydrate 48g (Dietary Fiber 1g) Protein 3g. % Daily Value: Vitamin A 6% Vitamin C 0% Calcium 8% Iron 6%.Betty's Tip Serve this ooey-gooey cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a generous dollop of whipped cream.