I was planning to do yet another Valentines bake when I had three very ripe bananas looking at me from the fruit bowl. So, I decided to incorporate them into the bake and make a banana cake with passionfruit icing.
This super moist banana cake, with passionfruit cream cheese icing, is so delicious and easy to make. I used my love heart tins to give it a Valentine's Day feel to it.
I love using ingredients that are in season or available to me. Using ripe bananas brings a natural sweetness to your bakes. This cake was especially sweet and moist due to the ripe bananas.
Happy Baking xo
Passionfruit Banana Cake
Ingredients
· 125 grams butter, softened
· 1 ¼ cups brown sugar
· 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
· 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
· 2 eggs
· 1 cup self-raising flour
· ½ cup plain flour
· ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
· 3 large over-ripe mashed bananas
· ½ cup buttermilk, at room temperature
Passionfruit cream-cheese icing
· 125 grams cream cheese, softened
· 40 grams butter, softened
· 2 cup icing sugar mixture, sifted
· 2 tablespoon passionfruit pulp
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
2. Spray two love heart tins with oil and dust some flour around the tins.
3. Use an electric mixer to beat the butter, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla in a bowl until pale and creamy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
4. Combine the plain flour and raising flour in a separate bowl. Add the flours, bicarbonate of soda, banana and buttermilk to the butter and egg mixture, in batches, stirring until just combined after each addition.
5. Spoon the mixture into the two tins. Make sure to only fill them up a third full and smooth the tops with the back of a spoon or off set spatula.
6. Bake oven for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the cakes comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool in pans for 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Passionfruit Icing
7. Use an electric mixer to beat the cream cheese and butter in a bowl until smooth and creamy. Gradually add the icing sugar, in batches, beating well after each addition. Add the passionfruit pulp and beat until well combined.
8. Use a butter or pallet knife to spread some icing over the top of one of the cakes and place the other cake on top. Spread the remaining icing on top and decorate with some passionfruit pulp.
Tips
· Allow cakes to cool completely before icing with the cream cheese icing, otherwise the icing will just melt.
· You can place this mixture into a loaf or round tin if you don’t have the love heart tins.
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