Bananas Foster Coffee Parfaits Recipes

Steps:

• In a medium saute pan over medium to high heat, add butter. Let melt then add bananas. Saute 1 minute on each side, and remove from pan.
• In same pan, add sugar, banana liqueur, dark rum, and espresso liqueur. Let simmer for 2 minutes and tilt pan to side to ignite evaporating alcohol in pan. When flame is extinguished, add orange juice, cinnamon and nutmeg. Simmer for 3 to 5 minutes or until desired consistency is achieved.
• Add bananas back into pan and ladle sauce over bananas for 1 minute to coat. To serve, place 1 banana half in 4 long bowls with scoops of vanilla ice cream. Spoon sauce evenly over the 4 bowls.

Steps:

• In a medium saute pan over medium to high heat, add butter. Let melt then add bananas. Saute 1 minute on each side, and remove from pan.
• In same pan, add sugar, banana liqueur, dark rum, and cold coffee. Let simmer for 2 minutes and tilt pan to side to ignite evaporating alcohol in pan. When flame is extinguished, add orange juice, cinnamon and nutmeg. Simmer for 3 to 5 minutes or until desired consistency is achieved
• Add bananas back into pan and ladle sauce over bananas for 1 minute to coat. To serve, place 1 banana half in 4 long bowls with scoops of vanilla ice cream. Spoon sauce evenly on top and serve.

Steps:

• Cake:Preheat oven to 350°.
• Butter a 12 cup tube pan and set aside.
• Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg; set aside.
• Beat butter until light.
• Slowly beat in sugar and beat until it is light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
• At low speed, beat in eggs, 2 at a time, just until blended.
• Beat in the flour mixture and banana mixture alternately, beginning and ending with flour.
• Beat just until blended.
• Stir in coconut and nuts by hand, spread in pan smoothing top.
• Bake until cake is golden brown and begins to pull away from sides of pan, about 60 to 70 minutes.
• Test in center.
• Loosely cover with foil if cake starts to become too brown.
• Remove from oven; let cool on wire rack 10 minutes in pan.
• Carefully invert cake onto cake plate.
• Brush with the 1/4 cup liqueur.
• Let cool.
• Glaze with either of the glazes or dust with powdered sugar.
• Glaze:Combine all ingredients until well blended.
• When the cake is lukewarm, spoon over top.
• Let cake cool completely.

Steps:

• Melt butter and sugar in a small frying pan. Add banana pieces and sauté over medium heat until lightly browned, turning pieces once. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Remove pan from heat.
• Add liqueur and rum to pan. To flambé, carefully light sauce with long-reach lighter. Spoon flaming sauce over the banana pieces until flame is extinguished.
• Serve warm banana pieces and sauce over vanilla ice cream.

Steps:

• In a large, deep skillet over medium heat, melt butter. Stir in sugar, rum, vanilla and cinnamon. When mixture begins to bubble, place bananas and walnuts in pan. Cook until bananas are hot, 1 to 2 minutes. Serve at once over vanilla ice cream.

Steps:

• Combine yolks, 1/2 cup cream, 1/3 cup sugar, molasses, rum, liqueur and instant coffee in medium stainless steel bowl. Set bowl over saucepan of simmering water (do not let bottom of bowl touch water.) Using handheld electric mixer, beat yolk mixture until thick and thermometer registers 160°F, about 18 minutes. Remove from over water; continue beating until zabaglione is cool, about 4 minutes.
• Using same beaters, beat 1 cup cream and vanilla in medium bowl until medium-firm peaks form. Fold cream into zabaglione in 2 additions. Cover and chill until thickened, about 4 hours. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Keep chilled.)
• Preheat broiler. Place banana chunks on baking sheet. Push 1/3 cup brown sugar through sieve onto bananas, coating evenly. Place close to heat; broil until sugar melts and crisps on bananas.
• Spoon 1/4 cup zabaglione into each of six 1 1/4- to 1 1/2-cup goblets.
• Spoon bananas over, dividing equally. Sprinkle each with 1 rounded tablespoon crushed gingersnaps. Top each with 1/4 cup zabaglione. Garnish each with gingersnap, banana slice and mint, if desired.