banana foster

Caramelized fruit flambe

Bananas Foster is a dessert of bananas sautéed in butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon, then flambéed with rum and served over vanilla ice cream.

Created in New Orleans in the 1950s, it remains associated with the city's cuisine: We ordered the bananas Foster for the table.

The singular form appears when modifying: banana Foster sauce.

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flaming dessert · caramel sauce · vanilla ice cream · ice cream topping · New Orleans · French Quarter · dessert · cinnamon · butter · skillet · flames · warm · decadent · tableside · dinner theater · pecans · brandy · sautéed

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preparation method

banana fosterfruit plate

Arrangement of cut produce

frozen banana · banana smoothie · crudités · banana ice cream · carpaccio

temperature and serving style

banana fosterfrozen banana

Solidified tropical fruit

banana ice cream · frozen yogurt

flavor profile

banana fosterfruit sorbet

Churned ice, plant-based

plain yogurt · sparkling water · palate cleanser · citrus salad

Family

banana, bananas, foster, fosters, fostered, fostering, fosterage

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Top 500,000
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Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G