Brazillian Coffee Banana Cake
Source of Recipe
Marla
Recipe Introduction
A juicy, rather "heavy" cake with a very interesting taste of banana, coffeeand spices. It keeps very well and can therefore be made several days inadvance.
List of Ingredients
Brazillian Coffee Banana Cake
150 g (5 oz) butter or margarine
3 dl (1 1/4 cups) sugar
2 eggs
5 dl (2 cups) flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp ground cinnamon
5 middle-size bananas
1/2 dl (scant 1/4 cup) strong coffee
Icing:
2 dl (good 3/4 cup) powdered sugar
2 tbs strong coffee
2 tbs flaked coconut
Recipe
Heat the oven to 200C/400F. Grease and flour a baking dish, capacity 1 1/2
liters / 6 cups.
Stir fat and sugar fluffy and add the eggs, one by one. Mix flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and spices and stir this into the batter, alternating with mashed bananas and coffee. Pour the batter in the dish and bake on the lowest shelf for about 50 minutes. Allow the cake to cool slightly in the dish before unmolding.
Stir powdered sugar with coffee to a smooth mixture and spread the icing over the cake while still slightly warm. Sprinkle with flaked coconut.
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