The MOST delicious moist Naked Banana Cake... Perfect for EASTER!
By The Style Sisters - Monday, March 21, 2016
The MOST delicious MOIST
Naked Banana Cake with Fresh Flowers
perfect for EASTER!
I am a Bad blogger! LOL
I will list out the steps and post the recipe below
Step 1- Decide how big you want your cake. I made two recipes of this cake so I could get it tall. I used two 6" round cake pans and two 8" round cake pans (actually I just used one twice)
Step 2- Make and bake the cake (recipe below)
Step 3- After cakes have cooled cut the two smaller cakes in half to make four layers. I left the two 8" cakes whole.
Step 4- Make the " to die for" cream cheese frosting (recipe below)
Step 5- Let the stacking begin! Lay one of the 8" cakes on a pretty cake plate and cover just the top with frosting pushing some of the frosting to the edges so that it will squish out a little when the next cake layer is laid on top. Stack the next 8" layer on. Cover the top with frosting.
Step 6- Place one of the 6" layers in the center of the 8" cake, add frosting in between each layer ending with a smooth cake layer on top . Frost with more frosting leaving a little of the edge of the cake exposed.
Step 7- Cut off stems of blooms and position the flowers in a pleasing way. We used to pretty peonies and a few ranuculas at the base of the flowers. The green leaves were cut from trees around our neighborhood..some sort of light green olive tree. Madeline places some at the base of the cake and for the final touch we sprinkled powdered sugar all on the edges of the cake and on the leaves. It turned out so pretty!
****I used this Banana Bar recipe from Taste of Home only I replaced the sour cream with greek yogurt.
Taste of Home
Banana Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream (I used plain greek yogurt)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 medium ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 cup)
- FROSTING:
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3-3/4 to 4 cups confectioners' sugar
Directions
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°/ In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, sour cream and vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Stir in bananas.
- 2. Spread into a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean (do not overbake). Cool.
- 3. For frosting, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla until fluffy. Gradually beat in enough confectioners' sugar to achieve desired consistency. Frost bars. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 3-4 dozen.
Looking for an amazing Easter dessert that is chocolate, rich and moist...look no further
Best Chocolate cake ever!!
Emily my daughter is such a great baker and made this homemade chocolate cake that is sooo moist and delish!
Emily used Cadbury eggs to decorate the top of the cake
We had this a couple of years ago and it will be Easter staple!
Hope you will try this deicious Easter dessert it will be amazing!
Karin
Easter Spring time centerpieces, recipes and DIY's
By The Style Sisters - Sunday, March 20, 2016
Welcome to Centerpiece Wednesday (Encore)
So many great ideas have been shared over the years to Centerpiece Wednesday so enjoy them one more time!
Hello my friends...can I just say thank you for inspiring me week after week! I loved all the floral ideas and the yummy recipes and of course furniture makeovers. These are a few of my favorites..hop on over and say Hi to these lovely ladies.
Frugel elegance - Faux flower Centerpieces
Seasoned Homemaker How to create an edible landscape
Old Things New- Dropped leaf table turned potting bench
Nellies Cozy Place Peach blueberry shortcake
Making it in the mountains- Dollar store etched vase
I hope you will take some time to visit with one another as well as check out some of my other posts. As usual I am late in posting tonight...I was at my church Relief Society spa night and had a really fun time and forgot I didn't have my linky party up and running! So here we are better late than never!
ENJOY!
Faux Roman Shade using No Hardware!
I love how cute these Roman shades turned out!
Really easy and no hardware!
I spent last week at my daughter Madeline’s house helping her make these faux roman shades without hardware. Madeline was getting her house ready to put on the market in Idaho Falls and boy did we crank out lots of projects!
Not only did we paint Banisters and stair skirts (which I didn’t even know that is what they are called but I do now!) I LOATHE painting them…. actually not the paint part, it was all the puttying and sanding all the holes and lumps and bumps from 1980’s carpet. You know what I’m talking about… when they would carpet up those areas urrrghghgh……I must really love my daughter an awful lot to do all that!
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I have moved this tutorial post to here on https://karinskottage.com/2016/03/faux-roman-shade-tutorial-using-no.html
Sorry for the inconvenience but all directions are now over there.
Plus here is another shade tutorial over at Karins Kottage
You can see the other Roman Shade tutorial Here
Chinese Birthday Party idea- Pin the Eye on the dragon!
By The Style Sisters - Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Our granddaughter is in what is called Chinese immersion in her elementary school where the children are taught Chinese half of the day. It is AMAZING how fast the kids pick it up! So now she loves all things Chinese....so for her 7th birthday she decided that she wanted a Chinese birthday party!
So my daughter painted this dragon for pin the tail on the dragon game and the kids loved it!
A chocolate ruffled cake with dragons on the top (thanks to my hubby for supplying a lot of the decor for the party from all his travels to Asia)
The kids were so adorable!
A few were hamming it up at the impromptu "dance party"
Lining up to play pin the eye on the dragon!
Our granddaughter in her red Chinese dress...so dang cute!
A mix of old and new party decorations that I had from past parties you may remember the bridal shower here and the black red and white wedding we held in our backyard or maybe the Beauty and the Beast Party I love re-using decorations!
This huge Chinese fan has been hanging around our house for a few years now! You can see it here on the wall when we held a Chinese dinner for our youngest daughters prom when we lived in Texas
Over the last 7 years Ella had such a fun birthday parties! One of my favorites has got to be the Frozen party or her Pink Princess party oh gosh there are so many fun parties I just can't pick and favorite right now ;)
Amazing Spring Tablescapes, Desserts, and Decorations
By The Style Sisters - Saturday, March 05, 2016
Welcome to Centerpice Wednesday and wow are there some amazing Easter Decorations and Chocolate cakes to show you!
I am so impressed with these ideas!
Look at all these bunnies! Such a cute display on Lovely Livings
AAAAMAAAZING Easter tablescape handmade tablecloth and bunny ear napkin rings
Simply Suzanne made this chocolate cake for her daughters American Girl Birthday Party wait until you see all the details for the party!
This spectacular chocolate cake is actually multi layers of chocolate and delicate white cream! Dying over this! Munchkin Time
I hope you will take a moment and check out my recent posts
I have an exciting announcement...
I am a contributor on the Lou Lou Girls Blog now!!
My first post will be on Thursday so come by and say Hi!!
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