My recipe experiment tonight

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Banana Fosters Bread Pudding
Inspired by this recipe, I thought how wonderful a bread pudding based on banana fosters would be IF it came out. So I modified the recipe to this

1 loaf challah bread that has been in my refrigerator for a week (I had planned to make bread pudding last weekend)
3 eggs
2.5 C half-and-half I prefer this over cooking with whole milk
0.5 C good dark rum I prefer Plantation which is now Planteray (wise decision Plantation)
1 C brown sugar This in the original recipe is what inspired me to make a BFBP
1 T vanilla A little extra to simulate the vanilla in the ice cream
1.5 t cinnamon A little extra because bananas foster
Pinch of salt
2 black-ripe bananas Another 3 hours and they would have been rotten

Right now the bread is soaking in the custard for an hour. Then into a buttered cast iron Dutch oven that hopefully gives it a little brulee.

I think the proportion of custard to bread may be off in the original leaving it dry but bananas tend to gooify whatever they’re in when baking so I’m hoping that will make this moistness near perfect.

Updates as they develop.

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That sounds delicious. Replying just so I can find out how it turned out.

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Some body has been watching Barbecue Showdown … :wink:

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When do you light it on fire?

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Hopefully, not until I arrive.

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Tasted the raw custard. The taste is dead on but may need 2t of cinnamon total. Not more than that.

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Baked for an hour at 350 degrees. A little longer than usual but no liquid custard and top lightly browned. Too hot to eat (for now).

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That sounds like it will be delicious. I am always looking for banana recipes as I hate throwing them away.

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Modifications for next time
2 3/4 C 1/2 & 1/2
1/4 C Rum
I’d top with brown sugar as it finishes cooking to give a brulee crust
1 full tablespoon of cinnamon

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What? You cut the rum? Leave it the same - just drink the overage!

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So as I said last night, after cooking the pudding was very rum forward and it was a little dry like I was concerned.
But wait, no one ate that hand of bananas I bought last week. And I have brown sugar left over.
So 7 small mashed bananas cooked down with 2 C brown sugar, a stick of butter and 1T of cinnamon, I made bananas foster (sans rum) to put over my banana fosters bread pudding.

Update when it cools.

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Until it cools and we hear back…
My experiment today. I was going to make banana bread anyway but came into possession of a cantaloupe so split it 1/2 banana 1/2 cantaloupe. Turned out amazing.

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Two things, neither particularly key.

When I make Banana Fosters Milk Shakes, I do like to cook the bananas for a bit in pan, with butter, and cinnamon (vanilla) sugar (Penzys), before adding a splash of Cruzan dark rum and letting them finish.

I like the extra bit of caramelization that it provides, and I think for this one particular application, Cruzan Blackstrap Rum is superior to Planteray (which is a better overall rum, 100%, but the Blackstrap works really well for dessert applications IMHO).