INGREDIENTS
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Recipe by: Willow Bird Baking, with coconut whipped cream adapted from Nutty Kitchen
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Yield: 10 pieces
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This thing is downright celestial. Upside-down cakes are easy to create, but come out so beautiful and delicious. This one uses a sweet, tender coconut cake in the place of a yellow cake, and adds the bold zing of ginger to the caramelized banana top
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Topping Ingredients:
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3/4 stick unsalted butter
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3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
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4 large just-ripe bananas, cut on a diagonal into 1/2-inch slices (you might want to have an extra banana or two on hand just in case your bananas are skinnier or something weird)
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1 teaspoon McCormick ginger
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1 teaspoon finely chopped McCormick crystallized ginger
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pinch salt
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Cake Ingredients:
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1 cup all-purpose flour
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3/4 cup sugar
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1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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1/4 cup vegetable oil
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1/2 cup Thai Kitchen coconut milk
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1 teaspoon McCormick vanilla
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1 egg
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Coconut Whipped Cream Ingredients:
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2 cans Thai Kitchen coconut milk (refrigerated overnight)
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3 tablespoons powdered sugar
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1/2 teaspoon McCormick vanilla
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flaked coconut for toasting and topping