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Honey Cake with Rum & Butter Bananas

Honey Cake with Rum & Butter Bananas. This easy to make rich honey cake is wonderful all on it's own but dress it up with some quickly sauteed rum and butter bananas to take it to another luscious level.
Course Dessert
Cuisine North American
Keyword bananas, honey cake, rum and butter
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 16 servings
Calories 356 kcal
Author Barry C. Parsons

Ingredients

For the Honey Cake

  • 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ¼ tsp kosher salt
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp cloves
  • ½ tsp allspice
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • ½ cup honey
  • ½ cups granulated sugar
  • ⅔ cup brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs at room temperature
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ cup warm strong green tea or orange pekoe tea
  • ½ cup fresh orange juice

For the Rum and Butter Bananas

  • 6 large bananas ripe but not over ripe, sliced in ¼ inch slices
  • ½ cup dark rum
  • ½ cup butter
  • ⅔ cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract or the seeds from one vanilla pod

Instructions

For the Honey Cake

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour a bundt pan or 2 loaf pans.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and allspice.
  3. Make a well in the center, and add oil, honey, white sugar, brown sugars, eggs, vanilla, green tea and orange juice.
  4. Mix together with a whisk or on low speed in an electric mixer just until all the ingredients have been well blended together. Do not over mix.
  5. Pour batter into prepared pan/s and bake for 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Baking times will vary depending on the size of the baking pans; the toothpick test is the best way to tell if the cake is fully baked.
  6. Rest in the pan for 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely.

For the Rum and Butter Bananas

  1. Melt butter and brown sugar together in a large saute pan and cook together for a few minutes over medium high heat until it begins to bubble and foam up.
  2. At this point add the bananas rum and vanilla and cook for only a couple of minutes more until the sauce slightly thickens.
  3. Serve warm over the honey cake.

Recipe Notes

The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.