Making Bananas Foster Pancakes

I'm not usually into sweets for breakfast, but when I do have a craving for something sweet in the morning, I go all in. Since bananas foster is one of my favorite desserts, I'm always looking for ways to turn it into a dish that could legitimately be called breakfast. I've done a bananas foster dutch baby before, but this weekend I was still jetlagged from a trip around the globe and wasn't in the mood to fire up the oven.

These easy pancakes capture the best part of bananas foster (the caramelized bananas and butterscotch sauce), and stuffs them into a form factor that makes for a decadent breakfast. For the pancakes, I like to use yogurt because it adds some richness to the batter while providing all the leavening power of buttermilk. I also figure you're more likely to have yogurt on hand than you do buttermilk.

By pressing the bananas into the batter once it's in the pan, you're able to add a ton of bananas into each pancake. When they get flipped over, the bananas have a chance to caramelize giving them a golden brown color and creamy sweet taste that turns these ordinary pancakes into something extraordinary.

To finish the pancakes off, I made a simple butterscotch sauce with butter, brown sugar and cream. Rum is the usual choice of liquor to add to Bananas Foster, but I love the flavor a good Armagnac adds. Top the pancakes with some fresh bananas and a generous drizzle of this sauce and you have a sinfully delicious breakfast that wouldn't look out of place on a dessert menu.