Deep Fried Bananas Foster Food

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.

CAMPFIRE BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Remove the skin from the banana (DO NOT cook with peel).
• Place banana on non-stick side of a double 12-inch sheet of aluminum foil.
• Cut each banana crosswise into nine bite-sized pieces.
• Do not cut foil!
• Squeeze tablespoon butter over banana pieces.
• Sprinkle brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and rum extract over butter.
• Wrap tightly in foil, being sure to seal ends.
• Place on grill over gas, campfire or coals, seam side up.
• Cook for six minutes.
• Remove from heat.
• Open carefully.
• Top with diced pound cake.
• Spoon the whipped topping onto the dessert.
• Sprinkle topping with dash of cinnamon.
• Eat directly from foil.

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.

DEEP FRIED BANANAS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the first four ingredients.
• In a large bowl, combine the egg, oil, milk, and vanilla. Gradually add the flour mixture to the egg mixture, stirring often.
• Pour the oil to a depth of 2 inches into a Dutch oven; heat to 375 degrees. Dip the banana slices into the batter; fry in hot oil 3 1/2 to 4 minutes or until golden. Drain on paper towels.