Pacific fruit cake
Similar to the famous hummingbird cake, this variation is full of delicious tropical fruit. Here's a cake for all occasions.
SERVES16
TIME TO MAKE1 - 2 hours
MEAL TYPEDessert
TIME TO MAKE1 - 2 hours
MEAL TYPEDessert
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Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Grease a 23cm round spring form cake tin and line the base with baking paper.
- In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla.
- Add the banana, pineapple and baking soda and mix well.
- Add flours, baking powder and cinnamon. Mix until just combined.
- Pour the mixture into the cake tin and sprinkle thread coconut on top.
- Bake for 50-55 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Leave in cake tin for 15 minutes before turning out.
- 3eggs
- ¾ cupsugar
- ⅔ cupvegetable oil
- 1 tspvanilla essence
- 3bananas, mashed
- 225gcanned crushed pineapple, well drained
- 1 tspbaking soda
- 1 cupwhite flour
- 1 cupwholemeal flour
- 2 tspbaking powder
- 1 tspground cinnamon
- ¼ cupcoconut thread
Per serve
- Energy929kJ
- Total Fat12g
- Saturated Fat2g
- Total Carbohydrate25g
- Sugars14.4g
- Dietary Fibre2.2g
- Sodium22mg
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Grease a 23cm round spring form cake tin and line the base with baking paper.
- In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla.
- Add the banana, pineapple and baking soda and mix well.
- Add flours, baking powder and cinnamon. Mix until just combined.
- Pour the mixture into the cake tin and sprinkle thread coconut on top.
- Bake for 50-55 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Leave in cake tin for 15 minutes before turning out.
Ingredients
- 3eggs
- ¾ cupsugar
- ⅔ cupvegetable oil
- 1 tspvanilla essence
- 3bananas, mashed
- 225gcanned crushed pineapple, well drained
- 1 tspbaking soda
- 1 cupwhite flour
- 1 cupwholemeal flour
- 2 tspbaking powder
- 1 tspground cinnamon
- ¼ cupcoconut thread
Ingredients
- 3eggs
- ¾ cupsugar
- ⅔ cupvegetable oil
- 1 tspvanilla essence
- 3bananas, mashed
- 225gcanned crushed pineapple, well drained
- 1 tspbaking soda
- 1 cupwhite flour
- 1 cupwholemeal flour
- 2 tspbaking powder
- 1 tspground cinnamon
- ¼ cupcoconut thread
Nutrition Facts
Per serve
- Energy929kJ
- Total Fat12g
- Saturated Fat2g
- Total Carbohydrate25g
- Sugars14.4g
- Dietary Fibre2.2g
- Sodium22mg
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Grease a 23cm round spring form cake tin and line the base with baking paper.
- In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla.
- Add the banana, pineapple and baking soda and mix well.
- Add flours, baking powder and cinnamon. Mix until just combined.
- Pour the mixture into the cake tin and sprinkle thread coconut on top.
- Bake for 50-55 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Leave in cake tin for 15 minutes before turning out.
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