This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Everyday Cakes) recipe is Banana Cappuccino Cake. Dorie created those cake as a riff on banana bread, combining the flavours of things that grow together - bananas, coffee and coconut.
When I read the recipe, my initial thoughts were that these ingredients are pretty wild together. Bananas and coconut I could understand, but with coffee?
My fears were unfounded - this is a beautiful cake. Bananas and coffee is not something I’d be drawn to normally, but it just works in this cake.
To flavour the cream cheese icing, I used coffee essence, as I only had instant coffee rather than espresso powder, and I knew it would not dissolve.
This cake is delicious - if you are not a fan of banana cakes, the other flavours in this one really balance out the banana flavour.
To see what everyone else made this week, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.
What a great description of your cake and the flavors!
ReplyDeleteRight - wasn't this just such a lovely surprise ? I thought it would be fun to try this one out (and always enjoy the DAC "assignments") but had no expectation that this would be on repeat. Loved it !
ReplyDeletelove these flavors together- such a good cake! your frosting looks just delish.
ReplyDeleteoops- that was me. why do i always do that?
ReplyDeleteThis was a yummy one. Glad you enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking cake and great description! Glad you could taste the coffee, I think I might be glad I couldn't as I loved this as it was!
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