Recipe: Bananas Foster Pancakes

Every once in a while I will cook something over the weekend that just can't wait until Monday to make an appearance on the blog. The recipe for these insanely delicious bananas foster pancakes needed to be shared ASAP.

I found the inspiration for this recipe from one of my favorite food blogs, Closet Cooking. Both a Bisquick and a from-scratch recipe are listed below.

Ingredients:

Pancakes:
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1 egg

2 tsps cinnamon

2 overripe bananas (peeled and mashed)

Sauce:

1/4 tsp cinnamon
2 tbsps brown sugar

2 tbsps unsalted butter (melted)
2 ripe bananas (peeled and sliced)
2 ounces dark rum

Directions:
1. Mix the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon) in a large bowl.
2. Mix the wet ingredients (milk, egg, sugar, butter and bananas) in another bowl.
3. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients slowly. Making sure not to over mix.
4. Heat pan and melt about half a tbsp of butter in it.
5. Pour a little less than 1/4 cup of the batter into the hot pan and heat until the edges start to look dry and the surface starts to bubble (about 2-3 minutes).
6. Flip the pancake and cook the other side until the bottom is golden brown (about 1-2 minutes).
7. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a separate pan (I had mine on a medium high heat about a 6-7 on a scale of 1-10).
8. Add the brown sugar and cinnamon and let the mixture come to a simmer.
9. Add the bananas and cook until caramelized on both sides (about 3 minutes on each side).
10. Add the rum and simmer (about a minute).

Top the pancakes with the sauce and serve while hot.

To use Bisquick:
1.) Follow recipe on Bisquick box (2 cups Bisquick, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs)
2.) Add 1 tbsp sugar.
3.) Add 1 tsp vanilla.
3.) Add 1 tsp cinnamon.
4.) Add 2 overripe mashed bananas and mix together.
5.) Pour 1/4 cup of the mixture into the pan and heat until the edges start to look dry and the surface bubbles.
6.) Flip and heat opposite side for about 2-3 minutes.

Follow instructions above for sauce.


If you are looking for a way to amp up your typical pancake recipe, look no further. Enjoy!