St Lucia Banana Cake
From ahmed1 16 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 10
"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.
Ingredients
- 350 grams self raising flour shopping list
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda shopping list
- 2 tsp mixed spice (I used 1tsp ginger + 1 tsp nutmeg) shopping list
- 175 grams light brown sugar shopping list
- 4 eggs shopping list
- 200ml sunflower oil shopping list
- 2 bananas, mashed shopping list
- 100 grams pineapple, very finely chopped shopping list
- Finely grated rind and juice of 1 orange shopping list
- 100 grams walnuts, roughly chopped. shopping list
- Frosting: shopping list
- 2 (200grams) medium fat soft cheese, at room temperature. shopping list
- 50 grams butter, softened shopping list
- 200 grams icing sugar. shopping list
- 3 medium bananas. shopping list
- 2 tbsp caster sugar. shopping list
- ½ tsp lemon juice shopping list
How to make it
- 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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Reviewed by 8 people-
This sounds wonderful and moist, thank you so much.
organicmama
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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.....
zena824
in Somewhere, USA loved it
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Oh no....!!! this is too much!!! ... wonderful.
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