Banana Bread French Toast with Bananas Foster Sauce from Whispering Canyon Cafe Disney

By MJH

French toast made with banana bread and served with a bananas foster sauce

Ingredients

• Banana Bread:
• 1/4 Lb Sugar
• 1/4 Oz Baking Powder
• 1 Oz Shortening
• 1/16 Oz Salt
• 1/2 Lb All-purpose Flour
• 3/8 Cup Buttermilk
• 1/8 Cup Liquid Eggs Substitute
• 1/2 Lb Bananas
• 1/8 Oz Vanilla Extract
• Bananas Foster Sauce:
• 1 1/4 Lbs Bananas, sliced
• 1 1/4 Lbs Unsalted Butter, softened
• 1 3/4 Lbs Brown Sugar
• 1/4 Tbsp Buttered Rum extract
• 4 Oz Water
• 1/2 Tbsp Kosher Salt
• French Toast Batter:
• 6 Each Eggs, Large
• 1 1/2 Cups Milk
• 1/2 Cup Sugar
• 1/4 tsp Cinnamon Powder
• 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
• Banana Bread French Toast with Bananas Foster Sauce:
• Banana Bread, room temperature
• Bananas Foster Sauce, warmed
• French Toast Batter
• Butter for griddle
• Powdered Confectioner's Sugar for garnish

Details

Adapted from magicalrecipes.net

Preparation

Step 1

Banana Bread:
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Cream together sugar, baking powder, shortening, and salt, for 5 minutes. Scrape bowl well.
Add flower, buttermilk, and eggs and mix until incorporated, about 1 minute.
Add bananas and mix until blended.
Pour into baking pan sprayed with cooking spray.
Bake at 350°F about 40 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool slightly in the pan, then turn out onto a rack to cool further, and set aside.

Bananas Foster Sauce:
Put sugar in a pan over medium heat and bring to a soft ball stage.
Reduce heat and whisk in the softened butter.
Add bananas and bring to a simmer.
Remove the mixture to a blender or food processor and puree.
Add Buttered Rum extract.
Set aside.
Save any unused sauce in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

French Toast Batter:
Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Whisk until sugar is dissolved.
Store any unused batter in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Banana Bread French Toast with Bananas Foster Sauce:
Method of Preparation:
Slice the Banana Bread into thick slices, about 10 slices per loaf typically.
Preheat a griddle, and butter the griddle.
Dip the Banana Bread slices into the Pancake Batter.
Drain excess of the slices.
Place the slices onto the buttered griddle and cook until done and a nice golden brown.