When I first discovered Bananas Foster, I really had a moment with it. I made it again and again and again – I just couldn’t get enough of it! There’s something so irresistible about that combination of buttery, syrupy rum sauce and bananas over ice cream and it’s surprisingly easy to make. (And it certainly doesn’t hurt that you get to light your food on fire. That’s pretty fun.) This recipe brings you that same incredible combination in a different dessert form – sliceable, shareable cake. Bananas Foster is easy to make on the fly, but this scrumptious cake lets you plan ahead a bit for that incredible caramelized banana goodness.

Like Bananas Foster, this cake uses a quick caramel sauce made from butter, brown sugar, and rum. You don’t need to flambée anything here, you’ll just pour that sauce into the bottom of a cake pan and top it with rings of sliced bananas. The cake batter that goes over it uses mashed bananas as well, so you can be sure there’s plenty of banana flavor. And once it’s baked, it’s time for the fun part – inverting!

When you turn out this cake, the sugary rum syrup runs all down and into the cake (which means it’s equally perfect to serve with vanilla ice cream). It just goes to show that there’s so much more you can do with an extra bunch of bananas than make banana bread… If there’s rum and brown sugar and butter to be had – you just have to make this!