Jamaican Mystery Cake
Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Ingredients
- Servings: 8
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups sifted flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup milk
- 3 ripe bananas, mashed
- 3/4 cup toasted chopped walnuts
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoons instant coffee, dissolved in
- 1/4 cup coffee liqueur
- 1 banana
- 2 tablespoons grand marnier
- 1/2 cup toasted chopped walnuts
Recipe
- 1 for cake: preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- 2 cream butter and sugar in mixing bowl.
- 3 add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- 4 sift together dry ingredients and add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
- 5 fold in mashed banana and walnuts.
- 6 pour into greased 9x5 loaf pan and bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 hour.
- 7 let cool in pan 5 mins, invert on cake rack to cool.
- 8 for icing: in small bowl cream butter and sugar at medium speed.
- 9 using high speed add eggs one at at time, beating well after each addtion.
- 10 blend in dissolved instant coffee mixture.
- 11 to assemble: slice cake in half lengthwise.
- 12 place bottom layer cut side up on cake platter.
- 13 slice banana and arrange evenly over cake.
- 14 sprinkle with grand marnier.
- 15 spread one-half of icing over bananas.
- 16 add top layer and frost top only with remaining icing.
- 17 garnish with walnuts.
- 18 refrigerate.
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