Banana Cake Recipe With Passion Fruit Icing

Banana loaf with passion fruit frosting

Name: Banana loaf with passion fruit frosting
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: Serves 10
Ingredients: 75g butter softened; 110g soft brown sugar; 125g plain flour; 75g wholemeal flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 2 eggs; 4 very ripe bananas mashed; 75g pecans each snapped in half; 75g butter; 75g cream cheese; 150g icing sugar; 3 passion fruit halved and seeds and pulp scooped out

Published: December 19, 2014 at 2:33 PM

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Serves 10

Easy

Total time: 1 hr and 30 mins

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Our take on the ever-popular banana loaf. Made with pecans and a tropical passion fruit frosting, this is a teatime treat to share with family and friends

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Ingredients

Nutrition

75g butter

softened
110g soft brown sugar
125g plain flour
75g wholemeal flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
4 very ripe bananas

mashed
75g pecans

each snapped in half

frosting

75g butter
75g cream cheese
150g icing sugar
3 passion fruit

halved and seeds and pulp scooped out

Nutrition: per serving

kcal428
fat22.7g
carbs49.4g
fibre2.5g
protein5.2g
salt0.6g

Method

step 1

Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Beat the butter, sugar, flours, baking powder, eggs and banana together.
step 2

Stir in the nuts and spoon into a lined and buttered 450g loaf tin. Bake for 1¼ - 1½ hours or until a skewer comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in the tin then lift out and cool on a rack.
step 3

To make the frosting beat the butter until soft, beat in the cream cheese and then the sugar and 2 tbsp passion fruit juice. Frost the loaf and drizzle over the remaining juice, leave seeds in if you like or sieve them out.

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