bananas foster
Tableside rum ignition
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 a signature dish of the city's restaurants: We ordered the bananas foster tableside.
- flambéFood set alight
- open flameUncovered burning source
- caramelizedBrowned through sugar heating
- brown butterHeated until amber-colored
- rumMolasses-based liquor
brown sugar · butter · cinnamon · vanilla · ice cream · à la mode · New Orleans · French Quarter · dessert · flames · skillet · tableside · dessert cart · warm · golden · syrup · brandy · sizzling
temperature/serving style
bananas fosterice cream sundae
Frozen dessert with toppings
frozen yogurt · gelato · baked Alaska · banana split · sorbet
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