Bananas Foster Cake

Name: Bananas Foster Cake
Yield: Serves 10 to 12 (Makes 1 cake)
Ingredients: 1/2 cup, dark rum; 1/2 cup packed (3 1/2 ounces), dark brown sugar; Pinch, table salt; 2 tablespoons, unsalted butter, chilled; 4 , ripe bananas; 1/8 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 20 tablespoons (2½ sticks), unsalted butter, cut into 20 pieces and softened; 1/8 teaspoon, salt; 2 1/2 cups (10 ounces), confectioners' sugar; 1/4 cup, dark rum; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1 recipe, recipe (3 [8-inch] layers)

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2014

Desserts or Baked Goods

Cakes

Even without the classic dessert’s trademark flambé, this spin-off is a showstopper.

SERVES10 to 12 (Makes 1 cake)

TIME1 hour

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Bananas Foster is a delicious and impressive dessert that involves flambéing bananas in rum and serving them over ice cream. For a more party-friendly dessert, we fill layers of yellow cake with bananas cooked in a rum-laced caramel. The fl...

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