Bananas Foster Cake

Banana cake is all too often a disappointment. Dry as a brick, austere as a bran muffin, many people think it’s perfectly all right to use any old banana bread recipe, slap some frosting on top, and call it dessert. Bananas can do so much better, given the freedom to embrace their sweeter side! Taking a page from the showstopping grand finale that is bananas Foster, these tender layers are soaked in rum before assembly and topped with a subtly salted caramel frosting that pulls the whole de