Banana Coconut Bundt Cake with Coconut Icing
Banana Coconut Bundt Cake with Coconut Icing is a recipe I developed when faced with a lot of overripe bananas. I’m not crazy about banana bread, but I love this cake!
Originally published May 20, 2014
Recently I was interviewed for “Thoughts on the Table”, a podcast by Paolo Rigiroli of Disgraces on the Menu, and was asked how I develop my recipes. One of the ways I create recipes is simply by coming up with ideas of how not to waste food.
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Coming from a family where my grandparents lived through both World Wars, understandably, not wasting food is a value that has been passed down to me. So when my husband came home from work with a huge bunch of brown bananas the other day, I had this idea for a Banana Coconut Bundt Cake with Coconut Icing, and a new recipe was born.
I’m not a big fan of banana bread which is why my choice is a banana based cake instead. You may recognize the this as being similar to the Banana Nutella Swirl Bundt Cake with Coffee Icing which I posted last year, and it is in fact inspired by this recipe.
However, it is covered in a lovely coconut flavored icing and topped with shredded coconut, which goes perfectly with the banana flavor of the cake.
I don’t know if it’s a good thing that I sent the cake back to work with my husband for all his colleagues to enjoy. It may put ideas in their heads about sending ingredients home with him given that they come back in an improved form!
Banana Coconut Bundt Cake
with Coconut Icing
recipe by Christina Conte (adapted from Banana Nutella Swirl Bundt Cake)
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups (10 oz) good quality, sifted, all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1 1/2 sticks (6 oz) butter
- 3/4 cup (4 oz) sugar
- 1/4 cup (1 1/2 oz) brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups (12 oz) mashed ripe bananas
- 1/2 cup (4 oz) greek yogurt
- 4 tbsp buttermilk
- 1 cup shredded coconut, natural (without any added ingredients)
Coconut Icing
- 1 cup (2 oz) confectioner’s (powdered) sugar
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 2 tbsp milk (more or less as needed to reach a proper consistency)
- coconut flakes or shredded coconut to sprinkle on top of cake
Preheat oven to 350º F (175º C) and grease and flour a bundt pan.
Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into bowl and set aside. In large mixing bowl, cream together butter and both sugars for a few minutes until light and fluffy, then add eggs and continue to mix.
Next, add mashed bananas, yogurt and buttermilk and mix well.
Add dry ingredients, and stir until combined, then stir in the coconut.
Spoon batter into prepared baking tin.
Place into preheated oven, and bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until tester comes out clean. After about 10 minutes, remove cake from pan and place on cooling rack.
Coconut Icing
After the cake has cooled, mix the confectioner’s sugar, coconut oil and milk until a smooth consistency is reached and the icing slowly runs down the cake without all dripping off.
While the icing is still wet, sprinkle with the shredded coconut.
Allow the icing to set, then serve. I might add that this banana coconut bundt cake is just perfect with a cup of tea or coffee.
Nota Bene: although I have a pretty purple measuring cup in the background (gifted to me by my lovely cousin Concetta), I don’t advocate using cups when you can use a scale for baking. Scales are infinitely more accurate and will give you better results every time.
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Banana Coconut Bundt Cake with Coconut Icing
Special Equipment
- 1 bundt pan
Ingredients
Cake:
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour (good quality, sifted)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- ⅛ tsp salt (a pinch)
- 6 oz butter
- ¾ cup sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 ½ cups ripe bananas (mashed)
- ½ cup greek yogurt
- 4 Tbsp buttermilk
- 1 cup shredded coconut (natural, without any added ingredients)
Coconut Icing:
- 1 cup confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar)
- 1 Tbsp coconut oil
- 2 Tbsp milk (more or less as needed to reach a proper consistency)
- 1 Tbsp shredded coconut (as needed to sprinkle on top of cake)
Instructions
Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350º F (175º C) and grease and flour a bundt pan.
- Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into bowl and set aside. In large mixing bowl, cream together butter and both sugars for a few minutes until light and fluffy, then add eggs and continue to mix.
- Next, add mashed bananas, yogurt and buttermilk and mix well.
- Add dry ingredients, and stir until combined, then stir in the coconut.
- Spoon batter into prepared bundt tin.
- Place into preheated oven, and bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until tester comes out clean.After about 10 minutes, remove cake from pan and place on cooling rack.
- Coconut Icing:
- After the cake has cooled, mix the confectioner's sugar, coconut oil and milk until a smooth consistency is reached and the icing slowly runs down the cake without all dripping off.
- While the icing is still wet, sprinkle with the shredded coconut.
- Allow the icing to set, then serve; I might add that this banana coconut bundt cake is just perfect with a cup of tea or coffee.
Notes
Nutrition
Love banana and coconut together? Here are some other recipes~
Nutty Coconut Banana Ice Cream Sundaes
Caramelized Banana Coconut Chocolate Chip Muffins
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i love the sound of the recipe but i dont like yogurt. could i subsitrute cream cheese or something else for the yogurt?? i love everything else about the recipe. thanks.
Hi Carolyn, you won’t taste the yogurt, but I would switch it out with sour cream before I’d try cream cheese. Good luck!
Why have I never had banana and coconut together before? It sounds delightful and it looks absolutely to-die-for.
A spectacular looking cake! Looks like a jeweled crown. And the flavors sound lovely.
Thank you, Frank!
Do you use sweetened or unsweetened coconut?
Hi Cheryl, natural coconut isn’t sweetened. I only use unsweetened as the sweetened stuff contains some nasty ingredients and is cloyingly sweet to me. Enjoy! CC