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Sticky Date, Banana & Peanut Butter Cake

Sticky Date & Banana Cake Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups loosely packed dried dates finely chopped
  • 5 ripe dole bobby bananas or 3 large bananas
  • 3 large eggs
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 3/4 vegetable or canola oil
  • 1 3/4 cup self-rising flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Mascarpone Peanut Butter Icing Ingredients

  • 100g white chocolate melted
  • 250g mascarpone cheese
  • 250g cream cheese
  • 1/3 cup smooth salted peanut butter
  • 2 tbls dulce de leche (or caramel/butterscotch sauce)

To Decorate

  • 4 ripe Dole Bobby bananas or 2 large bananas
  • 1/3 dulce de leche
  • 1/4 cup smooth salted peanut butter
  • Handful of crushed white chocolate

Directions for Cake

  1. Preheat oven to 170C bake
  2. Grease and line a 20cm cake tin w/baking paper, make sure it goes higher then the tin
  3. Bring a full kettle to the boil
  4. Finely chop dates, add to heat-proof bowl and cover with boiling water
  5. Leave to soak for 10 mins, then drain well, discard soaking liquid
  6. Peel bananas and add to large bowl, mash well, until no chunks remain
  7. Add eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla and whisk well until combined
  8. Add self-rising flour, baking soda and 1/2 a tsp salt and whisk again
  9. Fold through the drained dates
  10. Spoon batter into the prepared cake tin & bake on lower middle oven rack for 45-50minutes until cooked through
  11. Leave to cook in tin for 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely

Directions for Icing

  1. Add all ingredients to a large bowl
  2. Use hand held electric beaters on high for 1-2 minutes until smooth and fluffy
  3. Set aside until ready to use

Assemble & Decorate Cake

  1. Cut bananas into 1cm thick slices and set aside
  2. Once the cake has cooked completely, cut the cake into 2 layers (score the cake 1cm around so you don’t have an uneven cut)
  3. Make sure the cake has cooled completely before icing or the icing will melt
  4. Place the bottom cake layer onto the servicing plate
  5. Spread over half the icing
  6. Spoon over half the dulce de leche and swirl it into the icing with the back of the spoon
  7. Arrange over half the sliced bananas and drizzle half the peanut butter
  8. Sprinkle half of the white chocolate if using
  9. Place the 2nd layer on top and repeat with the remaining icing/dulche de leche/banana/peanut butter
  10. Garnish with edible flowers if you want

Recipe from melies_kitchen

Category: Desserts
Posted: June 10th, 2023

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