Flambéed Bananas

We saw this item on a restaurant menu, but decided to try making it instead of ordering.

I ran into some trouble when trying to cut the portions in half. If you use fewer bananas, but a big pan, do you use all the butter and all the brown sugar? I did, and that I think that was the start of my problems.

Here you bake the bananas (halved longitudinally) on butter and brown sugar, with more butter and brown sugar on top, and some lemon zest and juice. After 10 minutes at 450Ëš, you remove from the oven, add rum, and ignite. Its very dramatic as you spoon the flaming mess over the bananas. When the excitement was over, though, I had a pan with some soupy stuff, and a big lump of caramel.

We pulled the caramel out, and broke put it over the bananas. Somehow it was supposed to end up on top of them. I think this is an example of operator error.

My son doesn't like bananas, didn't even want to taste this, but ended up enjoying it quite a bit.

Photo credit goes to 13 daughter.