Carrot Cake Bananas Combi Recipe

Carrot Cake Bananas Combi Recipe

This is a beautiful carrot cake bananas combi recipe. This is made with a special with maraschino cherries, chopped nuts, coconut, and mashed bananas. The cake is baked in a tube cake pan and frosted with cream cheese frosting. It’s make it yummy and tasty.

Total: 80 mins
Prep: 20 mins
Cook: 60 mins
Yield: 12 to 16 Servings

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil (use such as corn oil, safflower, etc)
• 2 cups carrots (grated)
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup coconut (flaked)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3 cups all-purpose flour (13 1/2 ounces)
• 1 cup maraschino cherries (well drained)
• 1 cup pecans (or walnuts, chopped)
• 2 bananas (ripe, mashed)

For the Cream Cheese Frosting :

• 1/2 cup butter (softened)
• 1 package/8 ounce cream cheese (softened)
• 1 cup pecans (or walnuts, chopped)
• 2 to 4 teaspoons milk (to thin the frosting, as needed)
• 1 box/16 ounce confectioners’ sugar (sifted; approx. 4 1/4 cups)

Method :

1. Heat the oven to 350 F (180 C/Gas 4). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube cake pan or Bundt cake pan or spray it with baking spray with flour.
2. Into a medium bowl sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda; set aside.
3. In a mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the sugar and vegetable oil until well blended. Add th eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla and beat to blend.
4. With the mixer on low speed, gradually beat in the sifted flour mixture until well blended. Add the grated carrots, chopped pecans or walnuts, coconut, maraschino cherries, and the mashed bananas. Stir to mix the ingredients thoroughly; spoon the batter into the prepared tube cake pan.
5. Bake the cake for 1 hour, or until it tests done (a wooden pick inserted in center should come out clean).
6. Cool the cake in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes, then carefully remove it from the pan and cool completely on the rack.
7. While the cake is cooling, prepare the frosting.
8. In a mixing bowl with an electric mixer, beat the butter, cream cheese, and confectioners’ sugar until smooth and creamy. Add milk, a few teaspoons at a time, until the frosting is a good spreading consistency. With a spoon, fold in the chopped pecans or walnuts and then spread the frosting over the cooled cake.
9. Your carrot cake bananas combi is ready now.