Tropical Banana Cake

Name: Tropical Banana Cake
Ingredients: 1 pound icing sugar; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 ripe banana, mashed; 1-2 teaspoons rum; ¼ pound butter; 2 ripe bananas; ½ pound castor sugar; 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind; 2 eggs; ½ teaspoon vanilla essence; 1 level dessertspoon baking powder; ½ pound sifted plain flour; 4 tablespoons milk; ¾ teaspoon salt

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Great Dishes of the World

By Robert Carrier

Published 1963

About

Ingredients

2 ripe bananas
¼ pound butter
1 teaspoon grated lem

Dessert
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Combine butter, lemon rind, sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Scrape sides with a rubber scraper and beat in eggs, one at a time, until thoroughly mixed.

Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Peel bananas and mash to a pulp.

Add dry ingredients to egg mixture in 3 portions, alternately with banana pulp and milk. Beat after each additio