Bananas Foster

Perhaps you've heard of it, perhaps you haven't.  I'd never heard of Bananas Foster until I was served some at a church event a couple months back.  But I think everyone should have a couple impressive dessert recipes up their sleeve to make for company.  This, is one of ours (and by "ours", I mean my husband's and mine).

Servings: 2

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp unsalted butter or butter substitute
• 2 tbsp dark brown sugar - regular brown sugar works too but if you are going to the store anyway, get the dark stuff.  Thank me later :)
• 1/8 tsp ground all spice
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 tbsp banaba liqueur - yes I know you can't buy this in small quantities.  But you'll just have enough to make this recipe for dinner parties to come!  It's not like it goes bad!
• 2 under-ripe bananas, sliced lengthwise
• 1/4 cup dark rum, 151 proof

Directions

1. In a skillet, melt the butter over low heat
2. Add brown sugar, nutmeg, and all spice and stir CONSTANTLY until they melt into the butter
3. Add banana liqueur and bring to light simmer, continuing to stir.
4. Add bananas and cook 1 minute on each side. Cover with sauce as they cook.
5. Carefully remove bananas and set aside.
6. If needed, bring sauce back to a simmer.  Then add the rum and stir well.
7. Using a long igniting device (such as a long fireplace match or a triggered lighter), light the fumes coming from the rum.  Be careful please!  If there is a microwave or something else over your stovetop, you may hold the skillet away from that!
8. Allow flames to cook off the alcohol, approximately 1 to 2 minutes.  This is important, especially if your guests plan on driving home. If not, feel free to extinguish early :)
9. Place bananas in serving dishes with vanilla ice cream.  
10. Drizzle syrup from skillet over bananas and ice cream
11. Serve and enjoy immediately

Please note that the pictures below are not my own.  I will be posting legit pics of my recipes but I just recently made this one and am not sure when I will make it again, but wanted to have a picture to go with the post:

Enjoy and feel free to comment back about how it went!

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