Bananas Foster

• 1 stick butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 4 bananas peeled, halved, and cut lengthwise
• 1/4 cup dark rum
• Ice cream, optional
• Pound cake, optional

1. In a large skillet, melt butter.
2. Using a wooden spoon, add brown sugar and stir together.
3. Add the bananas and cook until caramelized on both sides, over medium-high heat.
4. Move pan off heat, add the rum and return to the stove to catch a flame from the gas stove or a long lighter.
5. Stand back when ignited and flambe the bananas.
6. Be careful a flame will shoot up above the pan.
7. Let flame die down and the alcohol cook out.
8. Serve bananas over vanilla ice cream and/or a slice of pound cake.

butter, brown sugar, bananas, dark rum, cream, cake

Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/bananas-foster-recipe.html (may not work)