Name: Caramelized Banana Splits with Hot Chocolate Sauce
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons unsalted butter; 3 firm-ripe bananas, sliced diagonally 1/2 inch thick; 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar; 1 cup heavy cream; 4 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (no more than 60% cacao if marked), finely chopped; 1 pint cinnamon or vanilla ice cream; 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, toasted and cooled

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With its warm, gooey goodness, this dessert will bring bananas Foster to mind. You'll have some sauce left over, which will be handy because, we assure you, you'll be in the mood to have this again the next night—if not sooner.

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