Reviewed: Jan. 19, 2012

My guy absolutely adored this cake. He and his friends had a guys night at our house and this cake was gone well before the night was over and all of them loved it. To this day I constantly get requests to make it! Never fails :)

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jubolly

Reviewed: Sep. 1, 2011

I had to use an extra banana for the cake batter in order to make it moist enough (4 total). I'm not sure whether it was because they had been frozen. Also, I used 1 cup of brown sugar instead of 1 1/2 white sugar, because my coconut was sweetened. For some reason, my cakes were fully cooked after 24 minutes. Perhaps it was their thickness. For the frosting, perhaps again because of the sweetened coconut, I had to cut the sweetness. I added the full amount of icing sugar, but altered the recipe by adding 8oz of light cream cheese. Maybe I was just in the mood for cream cheese frosting, but it was much improved!!! I have added a bit of lemon juice to frosting in the past, and my only regret with this one is not trying that. All in all, a very moist, dense delicious cake. Ps: In order to cool the cakes quickly and make them really moist, I stick them in the freezer right after they come out of the oven.

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amandalom

Reviewed: May 27, 2011

This is nutty, tropical deliciousness! We loved this cake! It is so GOOD! The frosting takes this over the top, I would not change a thing!

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Janet Shum

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Corbett, Oregon, USA

Living In: Salem, Oregon, USA

Reviewed: May 2, 2011

This is a banana cake, so it is NOT going to be light and fluffy. The nature of banana cake is that it's a bit dense, being a FRUIT cake after all. I made this for a get together at my house, and there were raves about it. Many went back for seconds. I personally do not like nuts in my cake, so I omitted the nuts from the cake batter. I halved the "frosting" recipe, and used it for filling (including the nuts in the filling!). I also used cake flour instead of all-purpose bleached. After filling the cake with the yummy banana-coconut-pecan filling, I then frosted the entire cake with cream cheese icing. This is going to be one of my favorite cakes to make as it's easy and quick to throw together, and it is absolutely delicious! Thanks for sharing ethelmertz :)

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ArizWldcat

Reviewed: Apr. 19, 2011

I made this for my husband three years ago for his birthday, and he loved it so much, he requests it as his birthday cake now, every year! Since he does not normally eat sweets, I'd say that deserves 5 stars.

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Pattycakes

Reviewed: Mar. 30, 2011

This was delicious! I subbed coconut milk for the buttermilk and it was delicious. I also only put a couple tbsp of the coconut since we're not big fans of the texture. I Also used a different frosting which I flavored with coconut extract.

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goodwin94

Reviewed: Mar. 18, 2011

very good, but eveyone is right about the frosting it is a bit too sweet. I added more butter to the recipe for the frosting and that cut it a little and made the frosting a better consistency. Over all yummy!

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greg&lou

Reviewed: Jan. 10, 2011

LOVE this cake! I have made the 2-layer cake with frosting as a rich dessert and a tube pan cake without frosting for brunch. Either way, it is great!

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GRGeep

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Whiteville, North Carolina, USA

Living In: Glen Allen, Virginia, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 9, 2010

I made this cake Exactly the way the recipe said except for the frosting and loved it. Because so many people said the icing was too sweet, and due to the fact I forgot to get powdered sugar, I found a recipe on this site for broiler icing. It turned out great! I've made it twice the same way and people love it. The broiler icing makes a nice carmalized topping that really finishes the cake well

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Nicolina510

Reviewed: Jan. 16, 2010

Oh, it's good, just a little dry, didn't have enough bananas on hand so that may be part of it. I was told it was more of a banana bread type cake, the frosting is out of this world tho!

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