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The Ultimate Banana Cake with Passionfruit Honey Frosting

Name: The Ultimate Banana Cake with Passionfruit Honey Frosting
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: PT1 hourM
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 250 g butter softened; 1 1/2 cups raw sugar; 1/4 cup honey; 4 eggs at room temperature; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 4 large ripe bananas mashed; 2 tsp baking soda; 1/2 cup hot milk; 3 cups plain flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 100 g butter softened; 2 tsp honey; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 3 tbsp passionfruit pulp or lemon juice; 3 cups icing sugar

This is a twist on one of our most popular recipes — we think it's better than ever with honey in the batter and a tangy passionfruit zing in the icing. The honey gives a wonderful moist texture, a golden crust and a rich caramel flavour.

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

1 hour mins

Serves

Baking

Vegetarian

Nut Free

Special Occasions

Dessert

Kiwi

Kids

Party

Ingredients

CAKE

250 g butter, softened

1 1/2 cups raw sugar

1/4 cup honey

4 eggs, at room temperature

2 tsp vanilla extract

4 large ripe bananas, mashed

2 tsp baking soda

1/2 cup hot milk

3 cups plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

PASSIONFRUIT HONEY FROSTING

100 g butter, softened

2 tsp honey

1 tsp vanilla extract

3 tbsp passionfruit pulp, or lemon juice

3 cups icing sugar

Cake

STEP 1

Preheat oven to 160°C fanbake.

Grease a 23cm-diameter springform cake tin and line the base with baking paper.

STEP 2

Beat together butter, sugar and honey until creamy.

Add eggs, vanilla and bananas, beating hard for 2-3 minutes. The mixture will look quite separated.

STEP 3

Dissolve baking soda in hot milk and add to mixture.

Gently stir in flour and baking powder until just combined (do not over-mix).

Spoon into prepared tin and smooth top.

Bake until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean and the top bounces back when pressed (60-70 minutes).

Cool in tin, then turn out and ice.

VARIATIONS

To make four small cakes instead of one big one, use 10cm tins (recycled large tuna cans are perfect – look for cans that don't have a plastic coating inside) and bake for 45-55 minutes. To make muffins simply divide the mixture between 12 muffin tins and cook for about 20 minutes.

Passionfruit Honey Frosting

STEP 1

To make Passionfruit Honey Frosting beat together butter, honey, vanilla, passionfruit or lemon and icing sugar until light and fluffy (2-3 minutes).

Spread evenly over the cooled cake.

Store iced or uniced cake in a sealed container in a cool place for 2-3 days or freeze. If desired, drizzle with extra passionfruit pulp just before serving.