Tropical Wedding Cake

I stopped making wedding cakes for a living a long time ago, but when good friends such as Marguerite Thomas and Paul Lukacs got married on May 30, 2002, I made a loving exception. This two-tier banana cake, with its moist, dense, but soft crumb, is enriched with Passion Mousseline and encrusted with lightly toasted macadamia nuts. I decorated the cake with gum paste daisies and then enjoyed it, along with the guests, served with Banfi Rosa Regale.

Twelve large bananas will be more