CONTEST! Wood Fired Drunken Monkey Love

This recipe is a quick Italian dessert reminiscent of Bananas Foster, but with bourbon instead of rum, and a few other significant variations. Mostly what it is is rich, flavorful, and delicious!

No matter how full everyone is from a meal of amazing wood fired oven pizza, when the oven cools down a bit for banana cooking, no one will be able to resist the Drunken Monkey Love!

The recipe comes to us from Nicole Francis and Joe Famiglietti as part of an early Community Cookbook recipe contest. You will definitely want to try it out.

Drunken Monkey Love

Amore di Scimmia Ubriaca aka "Drunken Monkey Love"

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 5 minutes mins

Total Time 10 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine Italian

Equipment

• Cast Iron Skillet

Ingredients

  

• 3 whole Bananas
• 1 1/2 Tbsp Butter
• 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
• 1/4 cup Peanuts - roasted, salted
• 1/4 cup Bourbon Whiskey
• 1 pint Ice Cream - vanilla

Instructions

 

• Let the oven temperature drop to approx. 500 degF.

  Slice the bananas into a large cast iron skillet.
  
• Chop the butter into little cubes and distribute it over the bananas.
• Add brown sugar, peanuts, and 1/8 cup of bourbon whiskey. Cook for five minutes or so (depending on wood oven temperature) until sugar carmelizes and bananas are warm, but not mushy, stirring halfway through.
• Add the last 1/8 cup of bourbon whiskey to the pan right before serving. Spoon the combined topping over a bowl of vanilla ice cream.

Notes

Photo by Kate Famiglietti.