This "Yard Cake" is mixed right in the baking pan. It's our local adaptation of this Jamaica Cake.
Ingredients
1 cup raw cane sugar
1 1/2 cups coconut oil
1 1/2 cups chopped nuts
3 cups white whole wheat flour
3 bananas, peeled and diced (or previously diced, frozen, and thawed)
3 beaten eggs
2 sliced fruits from the yard with juice - mango, papaya, or 1 pineapple (optional: sweeten with agave nectar)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
Directions
Mix together sugar, oil, nuts, and flour in a 13 x 9 inch pan. Stir in the eggs, bananas, fruit with juice, vanilla, salt and baking soda. Mix well but do not mash fruits. Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 50 minutes or until cake tests done.
Dust with powdered sugar when cool. Serve straight up, a la mode, or with cream cheese frosting.
