Banana Foster Sundae

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon orange juice
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 3 large firm bananas, sliced
• 2 tablespoons chopped pecans, toasted
• 3 cups vanilla ice cream
• 1/2 teaspoon rum extract(optional)

Steps

• In a large nonstick skillet, melt butter over medium-low heat.
• Stir in the brown sugar, orange juice, cinnamon and nutmeg until blended.
• Add bananas and pecans.
• Cook, stirring gently, for 2-3 minutes or until bananas are glazed and slightly softened.
• Remove from the heat.
• Stir in rum extract (optional)
• Serve with ice cream.

Do you know???

• Brown sugar is a product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of Molasses.
• Molasses is a viscous by-product of the refining of sugarcane.
• The word comes from the Portuguese 'melaço' ultimately derived from 'mel' , the Latin word for 'honey'.