This Nutmeg Plantain Cake with a coconut caramel popcorn topping has been in my head for over a year. No lie folks. The main reason it took so long was that I was way too impatient to let the plantains ripen. Miss N and I love plantains so much that 2 days into the extra ripening period, I would just give up and we would have baked plantains or fried plantains for breakfast. I eventually figured out that if I got at least 24 plantains in one go, we would have enough to eat as well as make this plantain cake. It only took me a year to get this sorted. Duh right?
Why Plantain Cake?
Plantains are a huuuuuuuuuuuge staple in West African cuisine. Back home, I cannot remember a week going by without us having some form of plantain for breakfast, lunch and supper. Heck one of the first ever times I cooked for my parents was frying them plantains. They very encouragingly and very politely ate my overcooked first attempt. But since then, I have always loved them and I am always looking for new ways to cook with them, like with this very moreish plantain cake.
Why Nutmeg Plantain Cake with Coconut Caramel Popcorn?
So enter my Nutmeg Plantain Cake topped with piles and piles of coconut caramel popcorn. Basically all the Sierra Leonean flavours I like in one cake. Just take some lovely overripe mashed plantains, then add a huge helping of good quality aromatic nutmeg and you got yourself a cake. And what it cake it is. This cake is gorgeous like my Berry, Orange Blossom And Elderflower Cake With Mascarpone Whipped Cream and my Chocolate Sponge Cake With Chocolate Caramel Popcorn. But not too gorgeous to eat of course.
Don’t forget to make coconut caramel sauce for your plantain cake
You can stop there with the cake but please, please, please don’t. Make an easy peasy, 10 mins of effort, coconut caramel sauce. Try to avoid eating spoonfuls of this straight out of the pot as you wait for the cake to cool. Mix the popcorn with the caramel sauce, pile it all onto the cake and there you have it. The perfect Nutmeg Plantain Cake with a whole load of coconut caramel goodness. Folks there is nothing better.
You can make Plantain Cake with bananas
Now if you don’t have plantains you can use overripe bananas instead. And since it does not require the use of a stand mixer, you have no excuse not to try it. More Cake Recipes And what it cake it is. This cake is gorgeous like my Berry, Orange Blossom And Elderflower Cake With Mascarpone Whipped Cream and my Chocolate Sponge Cake With Chocolate Caramel Popcorn. But not too gorgeous to eat of course. Sierra Leone flavours – is the spot on my blog where I share both traditional Sierra Leonean recipes and West African fusion recipes.
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