Bananas Foster Cake

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Believe it: This tall, majestic cake, a riff connected the New Orleans classical dessert of bananas caramelized successful brownish sweetener and food and past flambéed with rum, tastes adjacent amended than it looks. You tin marque the full barroom the time before, fto the buttercream harden successful the refrigerator and past screen it with integrative wrap. Do not garnish the cake’s apical with the pecan crunch until acceptable to serve, to debar melting the caramel.

You’ll request 3 8-by-2-inch circular barroom pans and an instant-read thermometer.

The barroom layers tin beryllium made 1 time successful advance, cooled, wrapped successful integrative wrapper and held astatine country temperature. The crunch tin beryllium made 2 days successful beforehand and stored successful an airtight container. The bananas tin beryllium prepared a time successful advance.

From cook Padua Player of Susan Gage Catering and the Suga Chef, his ain concern successful Fort Washington.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 16

For the cake

1 cupful rootlike oil, positive much for the pans
4 cups flour, positive much for the pans
6 precise ripe bananas, mashed
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 cupful loosely packed airy brownish sugar
5 ample eggs, astatine country temperature
1 cupful regular oregon low-fat sour pick (do not usage nonfat)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Finely grated zest of 1 orange
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 spoon crushed cinnamon
1 spoon kosher salt

For the pecan crunch

1 cupful granulated sugar
2 tablespoons water
2 cups pecan pieces, toasted (see NOTE)
1 spoon kosher salt

For the caramel buttercream

1 cupful positive 2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 cupful water
1/4 cupful dense cream
12 ounces (3 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
4 ample ovum whites, astatine country temperature
1 spoon vanilla extract

For the flambeed bananas

6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter
1 cupful packed airy brownish sugar
4 bananas, sliced lengthwise
1/2 cupful acheronian rum

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
920
Fat
49 g
Saturated Fat
18 g
Carbohydrates
113 g
Sodium
460 mg
Cholesterol
130 mg
Protein
9 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
79 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cook Padua Player of Susan Gage Catering and the Suga Chef, his ain concern successful Fort Washington.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published December 24, 2013

Updated March 14, 2026