Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Banana Cake with Chocolate Butterecream

Wow! This was a big cake!! It was a 14" round cake with banana bread and banana pudding filling with chocolate butterecream. I made the roses out of fondant as well as the pearl border on the bottom. Oh and the base board was covered in fondant also! This cake was very, very moist!!! The banana bread was delicious, not sure if the chocolate buttercream complimented it, maybe a cream cheese buttercream is better for this cake, since it's almost like a carrot or spice cake. It turned out just how I wanted though. I got to use my diamond impression mat which I had been waiting to arrive for a couple of weeks now and it came in handy. I'm still trying to figure out how to keep it from overlapping though!
Anyway, I love to make cakes like these, they are a challenge for a novice decorator like myself. One thing I should mention is that I finished it with a circle border on the top and added another name to it at the end. It really made the cake pop! From what I hear everyone loved it and there were no leftovers...LOL!