My step-mother and I took a Wilton Cake Decorating class at JoAnn Fabrics. The first week we practiced making stars- nothing really too special. We really got into decorating in the second class. We needed to bring an 8 inch round cake to decorate. I couldn't just make a regular favor cake, so I made a strawberry banana cake. I had extra cake mix, so I made cupcakes as well.
Ingrediants:
1/2 cup softened butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 large ripe, mashed bananas
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup lowfat buttermilk
1/2 cup strawberry preserves
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degress fahrenheit
Beat sugar, brown sugar, and butter in a bowl until fluffy.
Beat in bannas, eggs, and vanilla.
Ingrediants:
1/2 cup softened butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 large ripe, mashed bananas
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup lowfat buttermilk
1/2 cup strawberry preserves
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degress fahrenheit
Beat sugar, brown sugar, and butter in a bowl until fluffy.
Beat in bannas, eggs, and vanilla.
In a seperate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and a pinch of salt.
Alternate adding one third of the dry mixture and half of the buttermilk to the butter mixture. Then, stir in strawberry preserves.
Prepare you cake pan by greasing the bottom of the pan with shortening and then coating it with flour. Only greasing and flouring the bottom of the pan will prevent your cake from having a hump in the middle. Also, I used Wilton Bake Even strips. You soak them in water and wrap them around the outside of your pan. I've never had a cake come out of a pan so easily.
Bake for 20 - 13 minutes or until you can stick a tooth pick in it and have it come out clean.
I was going to fill my cake with strwberry preserves, but forgot them, so I filled it with frosting. You could also fill it with banana pudding if you really like banana, but be aware that this cake already has a very strong banana flavor. We used buttercream frosting to decorate our cakes.
Here is my finished cake:
I was going to fill my cake with strwberry preserves, but forgot them, so I filled it with frosting. You could also fill it with banana pudding if you really like banana, but be aware that this cake already has a very strong banana flavor. We used buttercream frosting to decorate our cakes.
Here is my finished cake:
This cake is super moist and delicious. I used cream cheese frosting to decorate my cupcakes, because the cake itself is so sweet. I also garnished them with fresh strwberries that I cut and fanned. They gave the frosting a nice strawberry flavor. Here is what they looked like:
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