Tonight, my roommates and I made bananas flambees, and they RULED. I don't know if we did everything exactly right, but we got the main points and the result was delicious Plus, I got to use my kitchen torch! We turned off the lights to watch the blue flames circling the dish--it was dessert AND entertainment. If you don't have a kitchen torch, I can't encourage you strongly enough to get one immediately.
Henceforth, any dessert that doesn't end with me dousing everything in cognac and firing up my torch is going to seem like a disappointment.