Bananas Foster Trifle Food

BANANAS FOSTER PUDDING

Steps:

• For the pudding: Fold together pudding, cream and orange zest in a large bowl until combined.
• Pour a very thin layer of honey or corn syrup on a small plate. Make a pile of gold sanding sugar on another small plate. Hold a coupe glass upside down and gently tap the rim in the honey (a little goes a long way). Immediately roll the edge of the glass in the sanding sugar and place upright to dry. Repeat with 3 more coupe glasses.
• Dollop about 1/4 cup pudding mixture into the bottom of each glass. Top with a layer of crumbled cookies, then a layer of banana slices and another 1/4 cup pudding. Chill until ready to serve, up to 2 hours.
• For the bananas Foster: When you are ready to serve, melt the butter in a medium nonstick skillet. Add brown sugar and cook until sugar dissolves. Stir in bananas until coated well. Take off the heat and carefully add rum, then light with a lighter or match and let burn until the liquor burns off. Let bananas cool slightly, then add a spoonful of bananas to each of the glasses. Serve immediately.

BANANAS FOSTER

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.

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.)

DIRTY BANANA TRIFLE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat 1 package cream cheese and 1 can condensed milk until blended. Beat in Kahlua, 1/2 cup milk and chocolate pudding mixes until thickened, about 2 minutes. Fold in 1 carton whipped topping, then chocolate graham crackers. Set aside., In another large bowl, beat remaining cream cheese and condensed milk until blended. Beat in the remaining 2 cups milk and the banana pudding mixes until thickened, about 2 minutes. Fold in 1 carton whipped topping, vanilla wafers and bananas., Spread chocolate pudding mixture in the bottom of a 6- or 7-qt. trifle bowl or glass bowl. Layer with 1-1/2 cups whipped topping and banana pudding mixture; top with remaining 1-1/2 cups whipped topping. Cover and refrigerate overnight., Garnish with additional wafers, crushed chocolate graham crackers and sliced bananas before serving.

BANANAS FOSTER II

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.

BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Set ice cream out to soften. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat butter, sugar, and rum over medium-low. Cook, stirring occasionally, until smooth and bubbly, 4 to 6 minutes.
• Add bananas, and cook, gently swirling skillet, until bananas are just warmed through, 1 to 2 minutes. Scoop ice cream into bowls, and top with bananas and caramel sauce. Serve immediately.

BANANA TRIFLE

Steps:

• Whisk pudding mix with milk until smooth. Stir in chopped bananas; set aside.
• In a large bowl, whip cream until stiff peaks are just about to form. Beat in vanilla and sugar until peaks form. Make sure not to over-beat, or cream will become lumpy and butter-like.
• Layer half the pound cake cubes, half the pudding, half the whipped cream, and half the crushed vanilla wafers in a trifle bowl. Repeat with the remaining cake, pudding, and whipped cream, and top with the remaining crushed wafers. Chill in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

EASY BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
• Add sliced bananas and stir for 2 minutes.
• Add brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt.
• Lower heat and continue cooking, stirring constantly for 2 more minutes.
• Serve over a scoops of ice cream.
• Note: 1 oz of booze may be added during the last 2 minutes of cooking (Rum works well), add with the pan off of the heat- Beware of flaming.

BANANAS FOSTER TRIFLE WITH BLUEBERRIES

Steps:

• Heat butter and brown bananas on one side for 3-4 minutes flip and sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon brown other side for 3-4 minutes. Add rum to pan and ignite to burn off alcohol. Separate the bananas and rum. Set off heat and let sit till ready to use.
• Prepare pudding with low fat milk blending 2 cups into each mix. Set aside.
• Place half the lady fingers in a clear bowl a trifle dish if possible.
• Sprinkle 1/2 the rum over ladyfingers.
• Sprinkle 1/2 cup blueberries.
• Spread 1/2 vanilla pudding.
• Top 1/2 the bananas.
• Spread 1/2 the chocolate pudding.
• Spread 1/2 whipped cream.
• Repeat the layers with remaining ladyfinger, rum, blueberries, puddings, bananas, and whipped cream.
• Chill for 2 hours.
• Garnish with cinnamon and sugar.

BANANA FOSTER TRIFLE

Steps:

• Prepare cake mix according to package directions,(the 1 1/3 cup water, 3 T. oil, 3 large eggs, adding mashed bananas and ginger to the mix. Pour mixture into a lightly greased and floured 13 X 9 inch pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Brush cake with 1/4 cup rum. Cool in pan 20 minutes. Crumble into 2 inch chunks.
• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat; add dark brown sugar and cinnamon, and cook 1 minute. Add sliced bananas, and cook, stirring constrantly, 2 to 3 minutes or until bananas are tender. Remove from heat, and pour remaining 1/4 cup rum over banana mixture. Pour mixture into a large bowl. Let cool 15 minutes. Cover and chill 1 hour.
• Prepare pudding mix as directed, using 2 cups milk; stir into banana mixture. Cover and chill 2 hours.
• Place half of banana cake chunks in a large trifle dish. Spread half of pudding mixture over cake. Top with half of Cream Cheese Topping. Repeat layers once. Sprinkle with grated chocolate.
• To make Cream Cheese Topping:.
• Beat first 3 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixture until smooth. Stir in whipped topping until well blended.

BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add the brown sugar and stir until the sugar completely dissolves, about 2 minutes. Lay the bananas in the pan and cook on both sides until they become slightly soft and begin to brown, about 3 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and add the banana liqueur and then the rum and cinnamon. Tip the pan slightly and carefully ignite the alcohol with a long kitchen match or kitchen lighter to flambe. Put the pan back on the heat and shake it back and forth basting the bananas, until the flame dies out.
• Divide the ice cream among dessert bowls. Gently lift the bananas from the pan and place 2 pieces on the ice cream. Spoon the sauce over the ice cream and serve immediately.

BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Melt butter in a 10-inch heavy skillet over low heat. Add brown sugar, allspice and nutmeg and stir until sugar dissolves. Add banana liqueur and bring sauce to simmer. Add bananas and cook for 1 minute on each side, carefully spooning sauce over bananas as they are cooking. Remove bananas from pan to a serving dish. Bring sauce to a simmer and carefully add the rum. If the sauce is very hot, the alcohol will flame on its own. If not, using stick flame, carefully ignite and continue cooking until flame dies out, approximately 1 to 2 minutes. If sauce is too thin, cook for 1 to 2 minutes until it is syrupy in consistency. Add orange zest and stir to combine. Immediately spoon the sauce over bananas and serve. Serve with waffles, crepes, or ice cream.

SLOW-COOKER BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Cut bananas in half lengthwise, then widthwise; layer in the bottom of a 1-1/2-qt. slow cooker. Combine the brown sugar, butter, rum, vanilla and cinnamon; pour over bananas. Cover and cook on low for 1-1/2 hours or until heated through., Sprinkle with walnuts and coconut; cook 30 minutes longer. Serve with ice cream or pound cake.