South African Banana Cake Dessert Recipes

Steps:

• In a medium mixing bowl sift together the first five ingredients, set aside. Cream together the 10 ounces of butter with 2 cups of sugar in another medium mixing bowl. Lightly beat eggs and blend into creamed mixture, set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl mash 8 bananas and add coarsely chopped peanuts. Alternately add sifted dry ingredients and creamed mixture to bananas and peanuts. Combine well and pour into greased 9 x 12 inch baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
• In a small mixing bowl, combine 1/2 cup sugar with 1 teaspoons cinnamon. When cake comes out of oven and still warm, sprinkle sugar and cinnamon mixture on top.

Steps:

• Buy one those slabs of un-iced cake in a supermarket for this.
• Pour the warm milk over the cake crumbs and leave for 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350 deg F/180 deg. Celsius.
• Whisk milk mixture to make sure there are no clumps. You could put it in a processor to get a really smooth mixture.
• Add all the other ingredients to the milk mixture.
• Mix well, and pour into either greased individual bowls, or into a large greased oven dish.
• Place the bowl(s) in a pan with water (which comes about 1/3 up the sides) and bake about 40 minutes or until set.
• Remove from oven and let stand 5 minutes.
• Turn out and serve with a cream or butter sauce. (Whatever that means. I copied this from "Cook and Enjoy It", the South African cooking bible!).

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F.
• Cut bananas crosswise into halves.
• Cut each half lengthwise into halves and arrange in greased 9-inch pie plate.
• Dot with margarine or butter and drizzle with orange and lemon juices.
• Sprinkle with brown sugar and coconut.
• Bake until coconut is golden, 8 to 10 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Generously butter a 9x5" loaf pan.or 8" round cake pan.dust with flour and shake out excess.set aside.
• Coarsely chop walnuts and toss with 2 tbls of flour.
• Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and set aside.
• Combine mashed bananas with orange juce, set aside.
• Combine eggs, sugar, oil, sour cream and orange peel in the bowl of a stand mixer with paddle and beat on medium-high 2-3 minutes.
• Stir in mashed banana mixture.and beat for 1 more minute.
• Add flour mixture on low speed just till combined.
• Stir in floured walnuts with wooden spoon.
• Pour into prepared pan; shake gently.
• Place on lower rack in oven.
• Bake for 50-55 minutes at 350°F.
• Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes.
• Remove from pan and cool completely on rack.
• To prepare GLAZE: Combine all glaze ingredients except butter and vanilla; in a saucepan and cook on medium heat for 3-4 minutes.
• Cover pan, raise heat and boil for 3 minutes.
• Uncover, reduce heat to medium -- cook without stirring, but swirl pan until honey thickness, about 5-7 minutes.
• Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla.
• Cool completely and spread on cake.