Bananas Foster Bread with Cinnamon Butter Rum Glaze

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Last week we celebrated National Banana Bread Day. And national pancake day... and tortilla day... margarita day... pistachio day and kahlua day. Oh and then we celebrated pancake day again this week (thanks, IHOP). It seems that every food has its own holiday lately. Tomorrow is banana cream pie day. So being late to banana bread day, and early to banana cream pie day, I'll stick to the banana theme and combine two familiar banana desserts - bananas foster and banana bread.

Pineapple Rum Upside-Down Cake

Last weekend was my dad's 50th birthday. For years he's requested a pineapple upside down cake to celebrate. We usually break out a box of yellow cake mix, a jar of maraschino cherries and a can of sliced pineapple and whip up a generic, yet delicious upside-down cake. The kind of cake that I imagine 1950s housewives made to serve alongside a meal of tuna noodle casserole or beside a jello mold at holiday parties.

Since this blog has given me reason to challenge my baking skills, I knew I couldn't just whip up the cake from a box. So, I did a little research and found this recipe. It's a little classier, a little boozier. The canned pineapple is replaced with a fresh ripe pineapple. Yet, it tastes very similar to the original (minus the blinding red cherries).