Hot banana, rum + raisin caramel puddings w/ chocolate sauce

Name: Hot banana, rum + raisin caramel puddings w/ chocolate sauce
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) dark rum or spiced rum; 150 g (5½ oz/⅔ cup) caster (superfine) sugar; reserved rum liquid (drained from raisins); 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) dark rum or spiced rum; 250 g (9 oz/2 cups) raisins; 1 overripe banana, mashed with a fork; pinch of salt; reserved rum liquid (drained from raisins); 1 overripe banana, mashed with a fork; 25 g (1 oz) unsalted butter; 1 firm banana, cut into 24 thin slices

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 20

Appears in

Chefs Host Christmas Too

By Darren Purchese

Published 2018

About

I know it’s really cold in Europe and the US at Christmas, but it’s not always that warm here in Oz either. I remember my first Christmas ‘down under’ and it was freezing. I was working on Christmas Day and I remember looking out the kitchen door and seeing hailstones the size of golf balls. Wish I had a bowl of this on that day.

Ingredients

Rum + raisins

125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) dark rum or spiced rum

Americas
United States
Dessert
December
Gluten-free
Winter
Vegetarian

Method

For the rum and raisins, heat the rum in a small saucepan until just below boiling point. Remove the pan from the heat and add the raisins. Cover with the lid and leave to cool and plump up at room temperature for a minimum of 4 hours. Drain the raisins, reserving the liquid for the caramel sauce. Chop the raisins and set aside.
For the caramel sauce, place a n