Microwaved Bananas Foster Recipes

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.

Steps:

• Prepare a grill for medium-high heat.
• Heat a cast-iron skillet over direct heat. Melt the butter until it begins to brown, then stir in the sugar and cinnamon until the sugar melts. Stir in the salt. Add the bananas in an even layer and cook, turning the bananas once to coat in the sauce, until lightly browned, 1 to 2 minutes per side.
• Remove the skillet from the heat and add the rum. Light the sauce with a lighter and allow it to flame. Once the flames have extinguished, baste the bananas with the sauce. Add the orange zest. Serve warm over vanilla ice cream.
• (Alternatively, you can cook the bananas over medium-high heat on a stovetop.)

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.

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.

Steps:

• Cook butter and sugar in a large skillet over medium heat until melted. Meanwhile, slice bananas in half lengthwise. Add to skillet and cook until bananas are tender, about 2 minutes. Carefully add rum and brandy and ignite. Spoon sauce gently over the bananas a few times and then serve immediately over vanilla ice cream.

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in sugar until smooth. Add bananas and cook until caramelized. Pour rum into a measuring cup and then pour it into skillet. Stand back and carefully light rum with a long match or barbecue lighter. When flame has died down and most of rum has cooked off, spoon out bananas and sauce into bowls of vanilla ice cream.

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine all ingredients except rum extract. and bananas.
• Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally until sugar is dissolved and mixture is smooth; bring to a boil.
• Remove from heat; stir in rum extract and bananas.
• Serve over vanilla ice cream.
• Serving size is 1/3 cup.

Steps:

• Melt butter, brown sugar, lime juice, rum, and seasonings in a large skillet over medium-low heat.
• Add bananas and pineapple.
• Saute until tender, but not soft, about 2 minutes.
• Serve over scoops of vanilla ice cream, garnished with coconut.
• **To toast your coconut, place in a nonstick skillet over medium heat about 5 minutes or until golden.

Steps:

• Cut bananas in half lengthwise; set aside.
• In skillet or chafing dish, melt butter over medium heat; stir in sugar until melted.
• Add bananas, cut side down; cook, turning once, for about 5 minutes or until just barely tender.
• Sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Pour rum and banana liqueur over bananas, shaking pan to distribute liquid.
• Ignite with long wooden match (Be Careful!).
• Using long handled spoon baste bananas with flaming sauce until the flames subside.
• Serve immediately with ice cream.

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed 12-inch skillet over medium heat.
• Add the brown sugar, cinnamon stick, and lemon zest; stir to dissolve the sugar, about 1 minute.
• (If the heat is too high, the butter and sugar will separate instead of combining to form a sauce).
• Add the bananas and spoon some sauce over each piece.
• Cook until the bananas are glossy and golden on the bottom, about 1 1/2 minutes.
• Turn the bananas and continue cooking until they are very soft but not mushy or falling apart, about 1 1/2 more minutes.
• Remove the skillet from the heat.
• Add the rum and wait until the rum has warmed slightly, about 5 seconds.
• Wave a lit match over the pan until the rum ignites, shaking the pan to distribute the flame over the entire pan.
• When the flames subside (this will take 15 to 30 seconds), divide the bananas and sauce among the four bowls of ice cream and serve.

Steps:

• Place the first 4 ingredients in a large microwave-safe bowl. Place butter, brown sugar and cinnamon in a small microwave-safe bowl; microwave on high for 2 minutes, stirring once. Stir in extracts. Pour over cereal mixture; toss to coat., Microwave cereal mixture on high for 3 minutes, stirring every minute. Spread onto baking sheets to cool. Store in an airtight container.

Steps:

• Microwave caramels and milk in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 min. or until caramels are completely melted and mixture is well blended, stirring every 30 sec. Cover to keep warm.
• Melt butter in large cast-iron skillet on medium heat. Cut bananas crosswise, then lengthwise in half; add to skillet. Cook 1 to 2 min. or until heated through, turning occasionally. Remove skillet from heat. Add rum. Return skillet to heat; cook 30 sec. Carefully ignite rum with long match; let stand until flames subside.
• Place bananas in 6 dessert dishes, reserving liquid in skillet. Add caramel sauce to reserved liquid; stir until blended. Drizzle over bananas. Serve warm.

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.

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large skillet.
• Add brown sugar and stir together.
• Add the bananas and cook until caramelized over medium-high heat.
• Pour in the rum and catch a flame off of the gas stove or a BBQ lighter. (BE CAREFUL!)
• Stand back when ignited and flambe.
• Let flame die down.
• Serve over vanilla ice cream.

Steps:

• Melt butter over an alcohol burner in a flambe pan or attractive skillet.
• Add the sugar, cinnamon, and banana liqueur and stir to mix. Heat for a few minutes.
• Place the halved bananas in the sauce and sauté until soft and slightly browned.
• Add the rum and allow it to heat well, and then tip the pan so that the flame from the burner causes the sauce to light. Wait until the rum gets hot, so that you get a good flame after its ignited. Allow the sauce to flame until it dies out, tipping the pan with a circular motion to prolong the flaming.
• Carefully lift the bananas out of the pan and place four pieces over each portion of ice cream, and then spoon the hot sauce from the pan over the top.
• This can be prepared over a stove burner.