Tropical Fruit Cakes - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 cup all-purpose flour + 2 tbsp
    1/2 cup self-rising flour
    1/2 tsp baking soda
    1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
    1/2 tsp ground ginger
    1 cup brown sugar
    1/2 cup desiccated coconut
    1 (15 oz) can crushed pineapple, drained
    2 None bananas, mashed
    2 None eggs, beaten lightly
    3/4 cup vegetable oil
    None None Lemon Icing
    1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
    1 tbsp butter, melted
    1/2 tbsp lemon juice
    1/2 cup walnut halves, toasted, to decorate
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F. Grease and line 3 foil loaf pans with parchment paper.
    Sift together flour, baking soda, spices and sugar. Mix in coconut, pineapple, banana, eggs and oil until combined. Distribute between prepared pans and bake for around 45 mins, until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool in pans on a wire rack.
    Meanwhile, to make the lemon icing, combine all ingredients. Heat over a double boiler until fluid and pourable.
    Drizzle lemon icing over cooled cakes and decorate with walnut halves.

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