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Sizzling Cinnamon Bananas Foster Crockpot Recipe
Although this dessert is traditionally set alight, you should not inflict that on your slow cooker! You can serve this wonderful banana recipe over butter pecan ice cream or vanilla ice cream. It is also great served over pound cake or angel food cake. If you love the taste of bananas, you will love this hot dessert because the bananas become soft and mushy and their flavor and aroma seems to intensify. The rum adds a great flavor to this wonderful crockpot dessert recipe.
Bananas Foster is usually made with bananas, cinnamon, dark rum, banana liqueur, and brown sugar, although the ingredients do vary from recipe to recipe. First the bananas are cooked with the sugar and butter (never use margarine instead of butter in this recipe - it will not be good) and then the alcohol is added to the mixture and ignited. The hot sauce and bananas are then served with ice cream so you get the heat from the sauce contrasting with the cold ice cream. This recipe is often made tableside so you can enjoy the flambé performance.
1951 at Brennan's Restaurant, which is in New Orleans. He named it after Richard Foster, the New Orleans Crime Commission chairman and a friend of the restaurant owner. This famous banana dessert recipe is still served at a lot of the restaurants in New Orleans and also around the world. You can get a take-home printout of the recipe from Brennan's Restaurant and according to that, white rum (clear rum) was used in the first recipe instead of the dark rum used more commonly today to make Bananas Foster.
Famous Bananas Foster topping for Ice Cream or Cake
Ingredients -
6 peeled, sliced bananas
4 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon
20 walnut halves
½ cup brown sugar
¼ cup rum
Preparation:
Add the brown sugar and butter to a 3 ½ or 4 quart slow cooker and let the butter melt for about 15 minutes.
Stir the mixture to combine.
Add the nuts, cinnamon, rum, and bananas and stir gently.
Cover and cook for an hour on low or until the bananas are soft and glazed.
Divide half the mixture between 6 serving plates and top each one with ice cream.
Drizzle the rest of the Bananas Foster over the ice cream and serve immediately while it is still warm.
(Serves 6)
Photo Description:
As you can see in the picture, the hot banana mixture makes a delicious dessert when you serve it with whipped cream or ice cream. The ice cream melts a bit when it comes into contact with the hot sauce and the contrast in temperatures and flavors is so good. If you have never made Bananas Foster before, you will really like it. You will not miss anything by not igniting the sauce when you add the rum (like in the original recipe). The ignition is mainly just to cook off the alcohol and impress diners tableside rather than add any new flavors or dimensions to the recipe. Leave out the rum if this is for kids!
