Ingredients:

• sponge cake 1, 8 inch round
• Bananas 2-3
• ripe mangoes 2
• double Cream – 1 cup
• Mango juice – 1/2 cup
• rum or brandy – 2 tbsp (optional)
• icing Sugar to taste

Method:

1. Peel and slice the bananas. Toss them with 2 tbsp of lime juice.
2. Peel and cut mangoes into 2 cm cubes.
3. Make a rectangular cut at the underside of the cake without cutting through the top.
4. Scoop out the cake crumbs through that cut to make a hollow in the cake.
5. Mash the crumbs with 2 – 3 tbsp cream. Chop 1/2 the banana slices into pieces.
6. Mix them with some of the mango pieces and add to the mashed crumbs.
7. Fill the hollow in the cake with this mixture.
8. Place the cake, top side up on a serving plate. Prick all over with a fork.
9. Sprinkle with mango juice. (Flavour the juice with rum or brandy if desired.)
10. Whip the remaining cream and sweeten to taste with icing sugar.
11. Decorate the top of the cake with cream, banana slices and mango pieces. Serve chilled.