Description
These bananas foster pancakes are the best way to eat pancakes. Ripe bananas are sautéed in a butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and rum extract sauce, with pecans and walnuts mixed in for some crunch. The banana foster sauce is then poured over a stack of fluffy, golden pancakes.
Ingredients
Scale
- Pancakes:
- 1 cup + 2 ½ tbsp (140g) all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp (14g) butter, melted
- 2 tbsp (25g) brown sugar, packed
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp rum extract
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup (240ml) milk
- Bananas Foster Topping:
- ¼ cup (57g) butter
- ¼ cup (50g) brown sugar, packed
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ccnutmeg
- ½ tsp rum extract
- 1 ½ bananas, sliced
- ¼ cup (30g) walnuts, roughly chopped
- ¼ cup (30g) pecans, roughly chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and lay out the walnuts and pecans in a single layer. Toast for 7 to 10 minutes, flipping them halfway through. Let cool to room temperature. Once cool, roughly chop the toasted nuts. Set aside for now.
- In a large mixing bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt together.
- In a medium mixing bowl, mix the melted butter and brown sugar together. Beat in the egg, rum extract and vanilla extract.
- In several steps, add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, alternating with adding the milk. Mix until just combined. Don’t overmix the batter.
- On a large nonstick skillet or a griddle, melt a small amount of butter over medium heat and spread it to cover the surface. Use a ⅓ or ¼ measuring cup to scoop the batter onto the pan. Cook the pancake until small bubbles begin to form on the surface of the batter. Flip the pancake and cook until cooked through and golden brown on both sides.
- Meanwhile, begin making the bananas foster sauce at the same time. On a small skillet over low to medium heat, melt the butter. Add the brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and rum extract. Continue to heat for 2 to 3 minutes until the brown sugar is melted. Don’t let the sauce boil.
- Add in the banana slices, pecans and walnuts. Stir to coat them in the sauce. Cook for a couple more minutes, but don’t over cook the bananas or they will become mushy.
- When both the pancakes and bananas foster sauce is ready, serve the pancakes fresh, topped with the bananas foster sauce. Enjoy!
Notes
- Use a kitchen scale. It is easy to accidentally add too much flour when measuring with measuring cups. A kitchen scale is the most accurate way to measure ingredients.
- Don’t heat the bananas foster sauce too much. If you heat the sauce on too high a temperature or for too long, it may become too thick. If this happens, add more butter while cooking the sauce on low heat until it smoothes out.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Category: Pancakes
- Method: Stove
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 pancake
- Calories: 337
- Sugar: 18.4g
- Sodium: 613mg
- Fat: 18.6g
- Saturated Fat: 7.5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 9.6g
- Trans Fat: 0.4g
- Carbohydrates: 38.4g
- Fiber: 2.2g
- Protein: 6.2g
- Cholesterol: 60mg