Banana Coconut Up Side Down Cake Food

BANANAS FOSTER UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
• For the topping: Melt together the brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, salt and allspice over medium-high heat in a 9- or 10-inch cast-iron skillet, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Bring to a bubble and let the syrup cook until thick, about 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and carefully stir in the dark rum (see Cook's Note) and vanilla, then return the pan to the heat for 1 minute. Arrange the banana slices cut side down on top of the syrup.
• For the cake: Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda and nutmeg in a large bowl.
• Beat together the brown sugar, granulated sugar and butter in a stand mixer or electric hand mixer until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well and scraping the bowl down after each addition. Beat in the mashed bananas and vanilla until incorporated. Beat in the dry ingredients, alternating with the buttermilk in two additions, scraping down the bowl to ensure all the dry ingredients are incorporated.
• Carefully, spread the batter over the top of the bananas in the skillet. Place a baking sheet on the bottom rack of the oven to catch any spillage! Bake until a tester comes out with some moist crumbs sticking to it, 45 to 50 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes before running a paring knife along the sides and inverting onto a serving platter while still warm.

BANANA COCONUT UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375. Make topping: Melt butter over medium-high heat in a 10-12 ovenproof skillet that is at least 2-inches deep. Stir in brown sugar and cook, stirring often, until smooth, 1 minute. Add lemon juice; stir until bubbling, 1 minute. Arrange bananas in a flat layer over bottom of pan and cook until softened, 2 minutes. Sprinkle coconut on top and remove from heat.
• Make cake: Mix flour, baking powder and salt. With an electric mixer, beat butter on high speed until creamy, 3 minutes. Add sugar; beat until light and fluffy, 5 minutes. Reduce speed and add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Beat in vanilla. Alternate adding flour, mixture and milk, starting and ending with flour.
• Pour batter over bananas; spread evenly. Be careful not to mix bananas and coconut into batter.
• Bake until cake springs back slightly when touched in center, 30-40 minutes. Let cake sit in skillet for 5 minutes to allow juices to blend into cake. Run a knife around outside of cake to loosen, then carefully invert onto a wire rack to cool. Serve warm or at room temperature, with ice cream or whipped cream, if desired.

BANANA COCONUT UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Beat baking mix, granulated sugar, sour cream, egg, water and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed just until moistened, stopping frequently to scrape side of bowl. Beat on medium speed 2 min.
• Pour butter into 9-inch round baking pan; sprinkle evenly with brown sugar. Arrange bananas and cherries in prepared pan; sprinkle evenly with coconut. Cover with prepared batter.
• Bake 30 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Run small knife around edge of pan to loosen cake; immediately invert onto serving plate. Cool completely.

UPSIDE-DOWN BANANA CAKE WITH MAPLE-CARAMEL SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease a 20cm square cake tin and line the base with baking parchment. For the cake, pour in half the syrup, swirling to coat the bottom. Peel and halve the 3 ripe bananas lengthways and lay, cut-side down, in the tin.
• Beat together the butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and overripe banana with an electric whisk. Tip the flour and pecans into a food processor and pulse until finely ground together. Stir into the butter mixture with the bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon, then stir in the yogurt. Carefully spoon into the tin without dislodging the bananas. Bake the cake for 45 mins-1 hr until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out with only moist crumbs.
• Meanwhile, make the sauce. Toast the pecans for 1-2 mins in a pan, add the remaining ingredients and cook until the butter has melted. Then bubble for 5 mins until it has thickened a little.
• When the cake is cooked, poke it all over with the skewer - inserting it about halfway into the cake each time. Pour over the remaining maple syrup and allow it to soak in for a few mins, then turn the cake out of the tin, upside-down, onto a serving plate. Reheat the sauce, and serve with Greek yogurt or vanilla ice cream.

PINEAPPLE-BANANA UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Melt butter in a 9-inch cast-iron skillet and sprinkle evenly with the brown sugar.
• Remove from heat.
• Drain pineapple slices over a bowl, reserving 1/2 cup juice.
• Place 1 pineapple ring in center of skillet Cut remaining pineapple rings in half and arrange around the center pineapple ring.
• In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and the salt.
• Combine reserved juice, banana, oil, and egg and stir with a whisk.
• Add pineapple juice mixture to flour mixture, stirring until combined.
• Pour over the pineapple, into the skillet.
• Bake for 30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Invert onto a wire rack and serve while still warm or at room temperature.

COCONUT UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 9x9-inch baking pan (greasing well on the bottom).
• In a small bowl, mix together 1/4 cup butter, 2 cups coconut and brown suagr; press into bottom of prepared baking dish.
• In a seperate bowl,cream 1/4 cup butter and white sugar until fluffy (about 5 minutes).
• Add in eggs; beat well.
• Sift/mix together flour, baking powder and salt.
• Beat the flour mixture into the creamed mixture.
• Add in half and half and vanilla; beat for about 5 minutes on high speed.
• Spread the cake batter over the coconut mixture in the pan.
• Bake for 30-40 minutes, or until cake is golden brown, and a toothpick in the middle comes out clean when inserted in center of the cake.
• IMMEDIATELY invert pan on a serving dish/plate.
• Serve with a topping/dollop of whipped cream.
• Delicious!

BANANA COCONUT CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl mix the coconut, brown sugar, cinnamon, and ginger. Set aside.
• Grease and flour a 9" tube pan.
• Cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time.
• Add bananas, buttermilk and vanilla.
• Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together. Beat into banana mixture to blend.
• Pour half of the batter into the tube pan. Sprinkle with half of the coconut mixture. Add remaining batter and sprinkle with remaining topping.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes.