Banana Pudding Cake With Chocolate Icing Food

BANANA CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in bananas and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Fold in 3/4 cup pistachios., Transfer to two greased and floured 8-in. round baking pans. Bake 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For frosting, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add cocoa; mix until blended. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla; beat until creamy., Place one cake layer on a serving plate; spread top with 1 cup frosting. Top with remaining cake. Spread top and sides with 2 cups frosting. Press pistachios into sides of cake if desired., Cut a small hole in the corner of a large pastry or plastic bag; insert #127 petal pastry tip. Fill the bag with remaining frosting. Pipe concentric circles of frosting over top of cake. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour or until frosting is set.

BANANA PUDDING CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE ICING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Mix together eggs, mashed banana, water, evaporated milk, sour cream, and oil in a large bowl. Stir in cake mix, then sugar and brown sugar, then pudding mix. Mix to thoroughly incorporate all ingredients; pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool, about 30 minutes.
• While cake is cooling, combine butter and cream for icing in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment; beat on medium speed until combined. Increase speed to high and mix, stopping to scrape down the sides once or twice, until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Mix in cocoa powder and vanilla. Add confectioners' sugar gradually on low speed until combined. Increase speed to medium and whip for 1 to 2 minutes.
• Spread icing on the cooled cake, or store in the refrigerator until cake is fully cooled.

BANANA CAKE WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE MACADAMIA FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place 12 cupcake liners into a cupcake pan.
• In a medium bowl, cream the white sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, pudding mix and baking powder. Then add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Pour in the buttermilk and stir until the batter is smooth. Stir in the mashed banana. Pour or spoon the batter into the cupcake liners in the cupcake pan. Bake until the cake springs back to the touch, 18 to 20 minutes. Test cake doneness approximately 15 minutes into baking time. Cool.
• To assemble: Frost the cooled cupcakes with the Buttercream Frosting. Roll the cupcake tops and sides in the macadamia nuts.
• Slowly combine the butter into the confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup at a time. After well incorporated, add white chocolate and vanilla. Whip well until light and fluffy.

CHOCOLATE BANANA CREAM CAKE

Steps:

• HEAT oven to 350 degrees F. Spray bottom of a 9-inch round springform pan with no-stick cooking spray.
• BLEND cake mix, eggs, oil and 3/4 cup milk in a medium bowl until moistened. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes. Spread batter evenly into prepared pan. Bake 38 to 42 minutes. Cool completely.
• BLEND pudding mix with 1 cup cold milk. In another bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Mix in pudding and banana extract. Blend in whipped topping. Remove 1 cup and reserve. Stir 2/3 cup fudge topping in small bowl until of spreading consistency. Slice bananas 1/4-inch thick. Dip 3 slices in lemon juice. Cover and reserve for garnish.
• PLACE 2 tablespoons fudge topping into the corner of a 1-quart resealable bag. Knead. Cut small corner off bag. Drizzle fudge topping over top of cake. Refrigerate at least 1 hour. Garnish with reserved banana slices just before serving.
• REMOVE cake from pan. Cut in half horizontally. Cover bottom layer with fudge topping. Top with sliced bananas and 3 cups pudding mixture. Cover with top cake layer. Spread 1 cup reserved pudding onto center of cake.

BANANA PUDDING CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
• In a large bowl, stir together cake mix and pudding mix. Make a well in the center and pour in eggs, water, oil and mashed banana. Beat on low speed until blended. Scrape bowl, and beat 4 minutes on medium speed. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in a preheated oven for 50 to 55 minutes, or until cake tests done. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
• To make glaze: In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla. Whisk until smooth and of a drizzling consistency. When cake is cooled, drizzle icing over cake with a zigzag motion. Sprinkle chopped nuts over wet icing if desired.

BANANA CAKE WITH HOMEMADE PUDDING ICING

Steps:

• To make cake: Mix margarine, sugar and eggs together.
• In separate bowl mash the bananas and add the milk. Once mixed, add the banana mixture to the margarine, sugar and eggs.
• In separate bowl mix the remaining dry cake ingredients.
• Mix the dry and wet cake ingredients together.
• Pour into 9 x 13 inch pan and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 - 40 minutes. Cool to room temperature.
• To make icing: Mix the flour, milk and sugar in a small sauce pan.
• Cook to boiling stirring continuously. Cool to room temperature.
• In a separate bowl whip the margarine, shortening and vanilla.
• Mix the cooled pudding mixture with the whipped marg/shortening mixture until fluffy.
• Top cooled cake with icing and enjoy!

BANANA CAKE WITH PUDDING ICING

Steps:

• Grease and flour the bottom of a 9x13 cake pan.
• Blend together all cake ingredients and pour into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 min.
• ,until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Let cool.
• Meanwhile, prepare icing.
• Place all icing ingredients into medium-sized bowl.
• Mix with electric mixer on high speed until icing becomes fluffy and thick enough to spread (this takes a while, about 3-4 min.) Spread on top of cooled cake.
• Refrigerate entire cake for a few hours before serving for best taste, and serve cold.