Bananas Foster Cake

While watching Food Network recently we came across the most incredible looking dessert at Bradley Ogden’s restaurant in Las Vegas. Chocolate sauce, banana bread, bananas foster, & cream cheese ice cream. Hello gorgeous! Where have you been all my life?

The sweet, flambéed bananas side by side with the cool cream cheese ice cream make for a devilishly good combination. Add in moist, delicious banana bread with a hint of chocolate, and this dessert is through the roof. 

Bananas Foster Cake 

Ingredients: 

Cake:

 2/3 cups all-purpose flour 

1 teaspoon baking soda 

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 

1/2 teaspoon salt 

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar 

2 eggs 

1/2 cup oil 

3.5 bananas, ripe, mashed 

2 tablespoons sour cream 

1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

Bananas Foster:

1 stick butter 

1/2 cup brown sugar 

4 bananas, ripe, peeled and sliced diagonally 

1/4 cup dark rum

Additional:

1 pint vanilla ice cream

8oz package cream cheese

Whipped cream

Chocolate sauce

Preparation:

1. Allow the ice cream and cream cheese to soften. Whip together until blended. Refreeze.
2. For the banana bread: Set oven to 350 degrees F. Line the bottom of a loaf pan with parchment paper.
   In a medium bowl mix together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. 
3. Beat sugar and eggs with a whisk until light and fluffy, about 10 minutes. Drizzle in oil. Add mashed bananas, sour cream, and vanilla. Fold in dry ingredients. Pour into a lined loaf pan and bake for about 45 minutes to 1 hour. 
4. For the bananas: Melt butter in a large skillet over Medium-High heat. Add brown sugar and stir together. Add the bananas and cook until caramelized. 
5. Pour in the rum and carefully catch a flame off of the gas stove or a BBQ lighter. Stand back when ignited and flambé. Let flame die down. 
6. Plate a smear of chocolate sauce; a slice of banana bread; topped with bananas and a dollop of whip cream alongside cream cheese ice cream.