Recipe for delicious Rum and Brown Sugar Baked Bananas


Ingredients: (serves 8)

16 large bananas

8 tablespoons orange or lemon juice

8 tablespoons rum

6oz butter or coconut oil

6oz brown sugar

Cinnamon for sprinkling
Grated ginger


1. Skin the bananas and halve lengthways, laying them on a baking dish or in individual oven-proof dishes as we have used here

2. Cover with the juice and rum

3. Cube the butter and distribute evenly over the fruit. We added a little grated ginger.

4. Sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon on top

5. Cover and bake for 10 minutes in a hot oven until sweet, sticky and tantalizing.

6. Uncover and keep warm until demanded.

Serve with love. And pancakes.

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