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Tropical Fruit cake

Ingredients
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 3 medium bananas, mashed
• 225g can canned crushed pineapple, well drained
• 1 cup white flour
• 1 cup wholemeal flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup coconut thread
Method
1 Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a 23cm round spring form cake tin and line base with baking paper.
2 In a large bowl whisk sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla.
3 Add banana and pineapple and mix with a wooden spoon.
4 Add flours, baking powder and cinnamon and mix until it is just combined.
5 Pour mixture into tin and sprinkle thread coconut on top.
6 Bake for 50-55 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Leave in tin for 15 minutes before turning out.