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Brazilian 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

Makes 1 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.

Enjoy!