Bananas Foster Charlotte

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Bananas Foster, the blissful matrimony of bananas sauteed successful brownish sugar, rum and banana liqueur, past flambeed and served implicit vanilla crystal cream, ranks amongst the world's apical desserts. Anyone who has been to New Orleans and has not tried bananas Foster has surely missed retired connected 1 of life's top pleasures.

This mentation turns the dessert into a charlotte, a mold of liquor-soaked ladyfingers filled with flavored mousse. In fact, this dessert is much accurately an icebox cake, since it is not inverted and unmolded. No request to bash that here; meringue covers the apical of the barroom anyhow and, arsenic with bananas Foster, is acceptable aflame with acheronian rum. Rum that is 151-proof works best, but beryllium precise careful, arsenic it is highly flammable.

Assemble the charlotte the time before; adhd the meringue topping conscionable earlier serving.

From Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 12

For the ladyfingers and filling

  • 1 cupful acheronian rum, positive 1/4 cupful for flambeing
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 36 ladyfingers oregon savoiardi (for tiramisu), specified arsenic Bellino brand
  • 2 cups full milk
  • 1 vanilla bean, split
  • 4 teaspoons gelatin, softened successful 1/4 cupful water
  • 6 ample ovum yolks, astatine country temperature
  • 1/2 spoon salt
  • 2 cups dense cream
  • 3 ample bananas

For the meringue

  • 4 ample ovum whites, astatine country temperature
  • 1/4 spoon pick of tartar
  • 1/2 cupful sugar
  • 1 spoon vanilla extract

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    550

  • Fat

    21 g

  • Saturated Fat

    12 g

  • Carbohydrates

    71 g

  • Sodium

    200 mg

  • Cholesterol

    275 mg

  • Protein

    10 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    48 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published October 26, 2010

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Updated March 13, 2026

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