Maple Sweetened Faux Bananas Foster Recipes

MAPLE-SWEETENED FAUX BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• 1 . Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add the maple syrup and heat until it begins to bubble slightly. Gently stir in the sliced bananas, coating them with the butter/syrup mixture. Cook for 1-2 minutes.
• 2. Add the pecans to the bananas and cook for 1 minute more. Remove from heat and gently stir in the vanilla extract.
• 3. Serve warm over vanilla ice cream.

BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Set ice cream out to soften. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat butter, sugar, and rum over medium-low. Cook, stirring occasionally, until smooth and bubbly, 4 to 6 minutes.
• Add bananas, and cook, gently swirling skillet, until bananas are just warmed through, 1 to 2 minutes. Scoop ice cream into bowls, and top with bananas and caramel sauce. Serve immediately.

BANANAS FOSTER II

Steps:

• In a large, deep skillet over medium heat, melt butter. Stir in sugar, rum, vanilla and cinnamon. When mixture begins to bubble, place bananas and walnuts in pan. Cook until bananas are hot, 1 to 2 minutes. Serve at once over vanilla ice cream.

BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Melt butter in a flat chafing dish or skillet. Add brown sugar and stir until sugar is melted. Add bananas and saute until tender, about 3 minutes on each side. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Pour banana liqueur and rum over bananas, shake pan to distribute the liquid and flame. Baste bananas with the flaming sauce until flames die out. Serve immediately over 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 SPLIT

Steps:

• Melt butter with sugar in a 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Cook, swirling skillet occasionally, until color deepens, about 3 minutes. Add bananas, cut sides down. Cook, swirling occasionally to make sure bananas are coated, 3 1/2 minutes. Flip bananas, and cook 2 1/2 minutes more.
• Remove skillet from heat. Add rum. Return to medium heat, and cook about 10 seconds to allow rum to heat up. If using a gas stove, carefully tip the pan away from you until the vapors from the rum ignite. (Alternatively, light the rum with a long match.) When the flames subside, remove pan from heat. Serve bananas topped with vanilla ice cream.

MICROWAVED BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Melt butter in 8-ounce custard cup on high for 30 seconds; slice banana and add to melted butter.
• Combine brown sugar, cinnamon and lemon peel; sprinkle over sliced bananas.
• Cook on High for 45 seconds to 1 minute, or until banana is soft.
• Warm rum in glass measuring cup on High for 8 seconds; pour over bananas and carefully ignite. After the alcohol has burned off, serve over ice cream.

BANANAS FOSTER SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, melt butter. Stir in the brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Cook and stir until sugar is dissolved, about 2 minutes. Stir in cream. Add bananas and extract. Serve warm, with waffles, pancakes or vanilla ice cream if desired.