This started off with a moist rum and cinnamon cake. I made a traditional bananas foster as a filling - bananas, creme de banane liqueur, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, pecans, and lots of rum! It was finished off with a brown sugar buttercream. The entire cake should have served 56 people.. but 25 or so people finished it off within minutes!

 About the title of this blog.. I had leftover filling, and it was just tooooo good to waste.. so I piled it on top of the cake. Later that evening when we were about to serve it, my inner pyromaniac emerged, and we decided to try to set the cake on fire. Bananas Foster IS supposed to be served flambed afterall!

Well, either I cooked the alcohol off, it soaked in too much, evaporated, or just plain wasn’t high enough proof.. for whatever reason, we were unsuccessful in igniting it. Set the cake stand on fire for a brief moment, though! Good times.

I was pretty disappointed - a picture of a flaming cake would have been a wonderful addition to this blog! So, we’ll be doing a re-do at some point, with some modifications made to accomplish that one simple goal - a flaming cake. I will post photos when we do!

In the meantime, the cake earned rave reviews, and the weirdest compliment I’ve ever received. “I’d order a whole one of these if I wanted to kill myself!”. I was a bit taken aback by such a comment (from a sweet old man, at that!).. but then he explained it as a way to go by eating so much, that he loved it. LOL!! 

I LOVE experimenting with new flavors, and I am thrilled at how this one turned out!