Banana Mousse Cake with Banana Foster Sauce

Make 7 individual desserts. 

Banana Cake

Ingredients

2 eggs

8 oz sugar

6 oz oil

1/8 oz baking powder

1/8 oz baking soda

1`/8 oz ground cinnamon

Pinch of salt

9 oz bread flour

14 oz banana puree

Method

Mix egg, sugar and oil together. Add Baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and flour. Add banana puree. Put some mix on a ½ sheet pan and bake for 18 minutes at 380 f. and the rest of the mix you can use for banana bread or banana muffins.

Banana Foster Sauce

Ingredients

6 oz brown sugar

2 oz butter

Pinch of salt

½ tsp ground cinnamon

3 oz banana liqueur

1 tsp vanilla extract

4 large bananas sliced

4 oz spiced rum

Method

Melt butter. Add sugar, vanilla extract, salt and cinnamon. Add banana liqueur. Add banana and caramelize Add rum and cook for 3 minutes more. Use this for your sauce either cold or warm.

Banana Mousse

Ingredients

3 sheet gelatin

3 large banana

2 oz milk chocolate

Juice of 1 lemon

7 oz heavy cream

3 oz heavy cream

Method

Soak gelatin in gold water. Warm egg whites and sugar together. {Swiss Meringue.} Puree the banana with the lemon juice. Make a genache with the 2 oz of milk chocolate and 3 oz of heavy cream. Whip the 7 oz of heavy cream to soft peak. Mix the banana puree with the genache and fold it into the cream. Mix the meringue. Melt the gelatin and fold it into the meringue the fold it into the cream. Put into prepared molds, layered with 2 layers of banana cake. Freeze desserts so the can be unmolded.

Make 7 individual desserts.

Start a few days before, take a few bananas and sliced them very thin. Dip them in lemon juice and then dry them on a paper towel. When dry, place them on a baking sheet and place in an oven for a day or 2.

The dried bananas are used for the garnish and to be put around the dessert mold. We started by putting a strip of acetate plastic around the dessert mold and then we took some of the dried banana and lined them around the edge.

We then took the banana bread and cut some cake circles to put inside the dessert, we used 1 piece for the bottom and 1 for the middle. After you put 1 piece of banana bread in the bottom of the mold, take some of the banana mousse and fill the dessert mold about 1/3 of the way up. Place another piece of banana bread on top, add more of the mousse and fill the rest of the mold leaving about a quarter inch fromthe top of the mold. Freeze the dessert until it is ready to be un molded for the plate up.

To Plate

Place the dessert in the middle of the plate put some of your banana foster sauce around the dessert, place some of the dried bananas on top and around the dessert and add some chocolate sauce for a extra touch.