Banana Cake with Passion Fruit Icing

Name: Banana Cake with Passion Fruit Icing
Cuisine: Samoan
Ingredients: 2¼ cups of cake flour; 2 teaspoons of baking powder; ¾ teaspoon of baking soda; ½ teaspoon of salt; 1 stick (½ cup) of unsalted butter; 1½ cups of sugar; 2 eggs; 1½ cups of ripe bananas, peeled, mashed and forced through a sieve; 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract; ¼ cup of thick coconut milk; 2 ripe (unblemished) bananas, peeled and thinly sliced into disks

Preparation info

Yield:
1
9-inch, double-layer cake

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Tradewinds & Coconuts

By Jennifer Brennan

Published 1997

About

The cliff-girdled island of Niue, southeast of the Samoas and east of Tonga, has no rivers nor streams but its coral rock retains rainwater and its shallow soil is fertile. Sugar cane, limes, passion fruit, coconuts and bananas all flourish. This local cake recipe utilizes Niue’s home-grown best.

Ingredients

2¼ cups of cake flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder
¾ teaspoon</