Name: Single Serve Bananas Foster
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 1 cup
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon butter; 2 tablespoons brown sugar dark or light; ⅛ tsp vanilla; 1 tablespoon chopped pecans; a few pinches cinnamon; 1 banana sliced lengthwise; 1 tbsp rum (dark or light) optional; 1 scoop vanilla bean ice cream

Single Serve Bananas Foster

Go big or go home with this decadent, New Orleans-style dessert. Single Serve Bananas Foster is one of the very few recipes where I actually don’t try to health-it-up, and I’m all-in on butter, sugar, and ice cream.

Total 10 minutes

Serves 1 cup

Desserts

American

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Go big or go home with this decadent, New Orleans-style dessert. Single Serve Bananas Foster is one of the very few recipes where I actually don’t try to health-it-up, and I’m all-in on butter, sugar, and ice cream. Oh, but wait…it has banana and pecans in it…that makes it healthy, right?

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Single Serve Bananas Foster

One of my favorite things about this recipe, besides caramelized bananas smothered in ice cream, is that it’s a single serve recipe in a cute little cast iron skillet. So, you can make as few or as many as you like…and they all look adorable.

Do you know just how ridiculously easy Bananas Foster is? So easy, you’d be crazy to not make this one! You’d be passing up the opportunity to impress someone, with little effort!

A word of caution. There is an optional part of this recipe involving an open flame in a skillet. If you decide to go that route, ALL precautions MUST be taken to avoid injury and prevent fire. You know, things like adult supervision and having a fire extinguisher on hand…things like that.

Mind you, these efforts are so worth it when you taste the magic that occurs from burning off alcohol and being left with the richness that is rum-flavored, buttery caramel sauce. It’s pure heaven!

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Ingredients you will need for Single Serve Bananas Foster:

butter
brown sugar
vanilla
chopped pecans
cinnamon
bananas
(optional) dark or light rum
vanilla bean ice cream

Kitchen tools I use for this recipe:

5” cast iron skillet
Paring knife
Silicone spatula
Ice cream scoop

$Single serve banana foster topped with vanilla ice cream in a 5\" skillet.$

Looking for more dessert decadence that goes with any holiday? Check out my Orange Olive Oil Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache. It’s a simple cake with very distinct orange and chocolate flavors. If you like chocolate, you’ll love these Black Truffle Salted Dark Chocolate Drizzled Nuts. Like the Bananas Foster, they’re super easy and decadent…only without the peril of igniting an open flame.

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