PEANUT BUTTER BREAD BANANAS FOSTER

My version of Bananas Foster, Peanut Butter Bread Bananas Foster, is a decadent rum-lace caramel sauce over peanut butter bread. It’s made with sliced bananas, brown sugar, butter, and peanut butter bread and tastes absolutely amazing!

This famous New Orleans dessert is the epitome of decadence!

WHAT IS BANANAS FOSTER?

Bananas Foster is a dessert made from bananas and vanilla ice cream, with a sauce made from butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, dark rum, and banana liqueur. The butter, sugar, and bananas are cooked, and then alcohol is added and ignited. The bananas and sauce are then served over the ice cream.

Owen Brennan, owner of Brennan’s Restaurant, challenged chef Paul Blangé in 1951 to create a banana dessert. Chef Paul named the dessert after Richard Foster, who was a regular at the restaurant.

PEANUT BUTTER BREAD BANANAS FOSTER

I took the classic Bananas Foster Dessert, added pecan,s and spooned the sauce over toasted peanut butter bread. Of course, you can add vanilla ice cream if you want. And Wow!! Just wow!!

 

WHAT BANANAS ARE BEST?

The day I bought bananas they were slightly under-ripe. Under-ripe bananas are not good for this recipe; they’ll be tough and have a ‘chalky’ taste.

However, over-ripe bananas are not good in this recipe either, they will be too mushy and fall apart. Like Goldilocks, bananas have to be just right for Bananas Foster!

You can speed the ripening process by placing them in a brown paper bag. As well, for ripe bananas that you are not ready to use yet, place in the refrigerator, the skins will darken but the fruit will not ripen any further.

These bananas are just right! They have slightly speckled skins and will be tender and sweet.

TIPS AND TRICKS FOR PEANUT BUTTER BREAD BANANAS FOSTER

One important tip for making this recipe is: Have all your ingredients (and serving dishes) ready before you start. Once you start cooking the butter and sugar, the recipe moves very quickly. You can easily over cook the brown sugar if you aren’t careful.

As well, if you plan to serve this sauce with ice cream, scoop it into bowls and place them in the freezer.

Have the bananas sliced before you start

Toast the Peanut Butter Bread as you begin melting the butter
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Add brown sugar to melted butter on med heat. Stir and watch carefully.

Cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. If you over-cook this mixture, you’ll have brickle, or toffee, or a hard slab of burnt yuckiness!! Watch it carefully!

Add the bananas to the mixture and remove from heat.

Carefully add the rum (away from any heat source). Ignite with a long lighter or long match and let flames die. Plate and serve immediately!

Peanut Butter Bread Bananas Foster (Serves 6 to 8), you’ll need one loaf of Peanut Butter Bread. This bread is not very sweet. It’s almost like coffee cake and, therefore, good for breakfast as well.

I updated this post from an earlier version with new photos and simplified recipe instructions.

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