THB #11 - Banana Cashew & Coconut Coffee Cupcakes

I love banana cake!  Be it dense and moist, light and spongy - all types, and also all kinds of combinations - with chocolate, cheese, nuts, coffee, etc
And for this eleventh bake for The Home Bakers, the combination is rather unique - with coconut flakes, and it's mixed in the cake
I was eager to know the texture and taste of this cake, I love coconut in cakes, too!
So I baked it last weekend and I made just half recipe in muffin pans
With 1/4 cup of batter in every mould, I had 10 cakes

I love this cake! Even though the texture was a little more compact, but it's still soft and so moist! Taste wise, oh so yummy! The banana flavour combined with the crunch from the coconut flakes, the delicious cinnamon and nutty topping - it's really a brilliant idea to combine all those ingredients together!

I followed the recipe exactly, using more bananas than it's required though - for half recipe I used 2 large bananas. I replaced sour cream with plain low fat yoghurt
Also I used cashew nuts instead, simply cos that was what I had in stock :)
Oh and I only had light brown sugar, so I used that
I used dark rum liqueur, and since I couldn't find sweetened flaked coconut, I made my own from desiccated coconut
Baked the cupcakes for approximately 25 minutes

Here's the recipe to make sweetened flaked coconut from desiccated coconut, I googled I found one from livestrong.com

What you need for the DIY sweetened flaked coconut:

1/2 cup desiccated coconut
1 tbsp icing sugar
1 1/2 tsp canola oil
2 tsp water (or 4 tsp if you omit the oil)

1. Mix desiccated coconut with icing sugar in a bowl
2. In a separate bowl, mix oil and water
3. Pour liquid mix over the sugared coconut, mix well
4. Let mixture sit for at least 10 minutes until coconut absorps all liquid. Stir mixture once or twice
5. Use immediately

For full recipe, please hop over to Kit's site
This recipe was chosen by her - great choice, Kit! :)


This post is for The Home Bakers hosted by Joyce
An event for baking enthusiasts using recipes from the book Coffee Cakes by Lou Seibert Pappas