Banana and coconut carribean banana fun cake

 Think of the most amazing cake ever, then times it by ten! Then times it by ten again.



Spider likes this cake too.


You're not even close to the amazingness of this cake.

So where did it come from? How did I think of something so amazing???!!!

Truth is I took this recipe from Nigel Slater then changed a few things as that's what I had in the cupboard. The results however.... were spectacular. Let the statistics speak for themselves

100% of people who tried this cake said it was the best banana bread they'd ever tasted.
100% of people said they didn't care about the calories and butter they just want another slice
100% of people said even with a large scary spider made out of pipe cleaners guarding it they would go back for more

(2 people surveyed)

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Ingredients

• 175g/6oz unsalted butter, softened
• 175g/6oz sugar (half light muscovado, half golden caster)
• 75g/2½oz hazelnuts - AHA! swap that for the same amount of dessicated coconut.
• 2 free-range eggs
• 175g/6oz self-raising flour
• 2 very ripe bananas (about 250g/9oz total weight)
• drop vanilla extract - NO, add a good glug of Jamaican rum and some Angostura bitters
• 175g/6oz good-quality dark or milk chocolate chips
• a little demerara sugar
• Assorted pipe cleaners in dark colours

Preparation method

1. Preheat the oven to 170C/325F/Gas 3. Line the base and sides of a 20cm x 12cm/8in x 5in loaf tin with baking parchment.
2. Beat the butter and sugars until light and coffee-coloured. This is best achieved in a food mixer.
3. Toast the hazelnuts, rub them in a tea towel to remove their skins, then grind quite finely.
4. Slowly add the eggs to the butter and sugar mixture, then mix in the toasted ground hazelnuts and self-raising flour.
5. Peel the bananas and chop them the small pieces. Gently fold the vanilla extract, the bananas and the chocolate chips into the cake mixture, turning gently and taking care not to overmix. I loosened the mixture with some milk.
6. Scoop the cake batter into the prepared loaf tin. Dust with a little demerara sugar. Bake for between 1 hour and 1 hour 10 minutes, covering the cake with foil if the top starts to darken too quickly.
7. Whilst cooking make a spider out of pipe cleaners to guard the cake from terrorists.