Banana Bread Pudding With Caramel Sauce

Happy belated Halloween to my lovely readers! I like to spend my Halloween down at Danielle's, my college roommate, house. She's one of my best friends and like me, loves to bake. This is the first time in a few years I've been able to get down to South Jersey to see her around this time. We spend a lot of time together when she has off for her job and I'm lucky enough to have a four-day weekend after being weekend reporter. This year we went to a charity Halloween party to benefit the Dream Foundation. My other roommate Shannon and our friend Derek came with us and we had a blast.

Myself and Danielle from Friday's party

Yesterdaywas my last day there before it was back to the daily grind of work. Danielle, her mom, brother, grandma, great-aunt, her grandma's boyfriend and I went to her aunt's house for dinner and we decided to make a dessert. She looked up something up and we ended up combining two. Thus we have our banana bread pudding with caramel sauce. It made the house smell delicious. Like fall! And everyone really seemed to like it. Her grandma even wants the recipe for a church gathering. We didn't have time to make biscuit dough, so we cheated and used Pillsbury Grands biscuits. Next time I make it, I won't cheat! I'll make biscuit dough from scratch.

Banana Bread Pudding With Caramel Sauce

Ingredients:

4 bananas, sliced

2 cans Pillsbury Brands biscuits, cubed

1/2 cup butter, melted

1/2 cup sugar

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1 cup pecans, crushed [optional]

35 Werther's chewy caramels

1/2 cup heavy cream

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease a 9x13 glass dish with butter or cooking spray. Cube the biscuit dough in one-half to one inch pieces. Slice up the bananas. In a separate bowl, mix together the cinnamon and sugar to make cinnamon sugar. [You can add as much cinnamon as you'd like, but I'm not a huge cinnamon fan.] Dip the dough into the butter, then in the cinnamon sugar mix. Dip the banana in the cinnamon sugar mix as well.

Layer about half of cinnamon sugar-coated dough and all the bananas. Sprinkle in around half of the pecans. Layer the rest of the cinnamon sugar-coated dough over the bananas and sprinkle the rest of the pecans on top.

 

Combine the caramels and cream in a medium sauce pan, stirring continuously over medium-low heat until smooth. Using a large spoon, drizzle a few spoonfuls of the caramel sauce over the dough.

 

Bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Drizzle caramel over the pure awesomeness and serve!