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St Lucia Banana Cake Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Ahmed1 / All my dishes 1 year, 7 months ago "This cake conjures up the taste of the Caribbean".That's how they described it on 101 cakes&bakes from GoodFood magazine,from where I got the recipe.I made some additions and it was really great. Prep:25m Cook:45m Servings:10	Ahmed1
	moist creamy rich cake

mixing all ingredien

spices

frosting

caramelized bananas

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Ingredients

350 grams self raising flour

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

2 tsp mixed spice (I used 1tsp ginger + 1 tsp nutmeg)

175 grams light brown sugar

4 eggs

200ml sunflower oil

2 bananas, mashed

100 grams pineapple, very finely chopped

Finely grated rind and juice of 1 orange

100 grams walnuts, roughly chopped.

Frosting:

2 (200grams) medium fat soft cheese, at room temperature.

50 grams butter, softened

200 grams icing sugar.

3 medium bananas.

2 tbsp caster sugar.

½ tsp lemon juice

Directions

Preheat oven to 375F.Butter and line two 20 cm cake pans. Sift flour in a large bowl

With the soda, spices and sugar.

Whisk the eggs and the oil until smooth. Stir the egg mixture in the flour mixture

With the banans, pineapple, orange rind and juice and walnuts; stir well. Divide the

Mixture in the pans. Bake 45 minutes, remove from pans and cool.

Frosting:

Beat the soft cheese and butter till smooth and combined, gradually add the icing sugar

To give a smooth frosting. Spread half of the frosting over one cake, cut one banana into

Thin slices and arrange over frosting. Put the other cake on top. Spread over the remaining frosting. Arrange caramelized bananas on top (see directions).

Caramelized bananas:

Line a cookie sheet with greased foil, Cut 2 bananas into thin slices. Toss slices with

Lemon juice and sugar in a bowl and arrange in the cookie sheet. Put the sheet under

The broiler for 2-3 minutes till bananas is caramelized, cool.

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organicmama 1 year, 7 months ago said:
This sounds wonderful and moist, thank you so much.

tcvillegas 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Simply wonderful!

zena824 1 year, 7 months ago said:
I love the cakes and pies you keep coming up with....this is definately a winner Ahmed...your wife must be really proud of you for cooking all of this great food.....

zanna 1 year, 7 months ago said:
GOING BANANAS OVER YOUR BANANA CAKE.LOL THANKS

berry 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Oh no....!!! this is too much!!! ... wonderful.

kukla 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Looks devine! and has lots of my favourite ingredients, too... Thank you (again) Ahmed.

iffyo 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Looks beautiful,and i'm sure it tastes equally good!awesome!!

chefmeow 1 year, 7 months ago said:
I have to agree with all of the above. Yummy. Thanks for another great post.

cholena 1 year, 7 months ago said:
I just baked this cake . It smells great esp the ginger and nutmeg ..... and the fruits just compliments each other . I substitute butter n' sunflower oil for rich and fruity olive oil ... Thx for the recipe : )

cholena 1 year, 7 months ago said:
I have added a picture for you : )

notyourmomma 1 year, 6 months ago said:
Stunning recipe, wonderful post. Thanks dear.

minitindel 1 year, 3 months ago said:
Ahmed you are quite the baker, you do a fantasic job , do you work in a bakery??? or is all of this on your own, this recipe sounds fantasic, thanks my friend.

brianna 10 months ago said:
Please accept my '5' for another great recipe. My printer is hot so I can make this soon. It looks delious. Love your new Ferrari. Thanks

lanacountry 8 months, 3 weeks ago said:
I just found this and a 55555! Yummy!

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