BANANA FOSTER RECIPES 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:

• Heat oven to 400°F. Bake pie crust as directed on package for One-Crust Baked Pie Shell. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Reserve 8 vanilla wafer cookies; coarsely crush remaining 16 cookies. Set aside.
• In large bowl, beat pudding mix and cold milk with whisk about 2 minutes or until thickened.
• Spoon and spread 3/4 cup pudding into bottom of cooled baked shell. Top with half of the crushed vanilla wafer cookies and half of the banana slices. Repeat layers; top with remaining pudding. Cover filling with plastic wrap. Refrigerate at least 3 hours until set.
• When ready to serve, remove plastic wrap from filling. Top each serving with a dollop of whipped topping and a vanilla wafer cookie. Store loosely covered in refrigerator.