1 package yellow cake mix
3 large eggs, room temperature
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup 2% milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups mashed ripe bananas
1 package (12 ounces) vanilla wafers, divided
FILLING:
1 cup cold 2% milk
1 package (3.4 ounces) instant banana cream pudding mix
WHIPPED CREAM FROSTING:
1-1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
Sliced ripe bananas, optional
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Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°. Line bottoms of 2 greased 9-in. round baking pans with parchment; grease paper. Combine the first 5 ingredients; beat on low speed until moistened, about 30 seconds. Beat on medium for 2 minutes; stir in mashed banana. Spread 1/2 cup batter into each prepared pan. Arrange 2 cups vanilla wafers on batter (1 cup per pan), flat side up. Gently spread remaining batter over wafers. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 15-20 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
Whisk milk and pudding mix 2 minutes. Let stand until soft-set, 2 minutes. Meanwhile, in a chilled large bowl and using chilled beaters, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add confectioners' sugar; beat until soft peaks form.
Place one cake layer on a serving plate. Spread with pudding mixture. Top with second cake layer. Spread sweetened whipped cream over top and side of cake. Crush 1 cup vanilla wafers and press onto side of cake. Garnish with remaining whole vanilla wafers and, if desired, sliced bananas. Store in the refrigerator.
Donut Milkshake Party with Hungry and Friendly Donuts Monster Crashing In for Sweet Treats!
Get ready to indulge in a sweet treat with our donut milkshake and donut monster guests! In this video, we'll show you how to make a delicious donut milkshake and introduce you to our friendly donut monster friends. You won't believe how easy it is to make this mouth-watering milkshake, and you'll love our donut monster guests' reactions as they enjoy their sweet treats.
Ingredients ---1/2 kg chana dal (chickpeas),1/2 kg rice,1/2 coconut,1/2 kg jaggery,cardamom, almonds, cashew nuts, dry grapes.
Method---Soak chana dal in water for 2 hrs,Rice for 2 hrs separately.After 2 hrs grind coconut+Rice in Mixer.Then remove in a Big Pan.Add this,add jaggery and Chana Dal .Keep on gas with continuous stirring for 20-15 mins.Add water if necessary,see that the contents don’t stick at the bottom of the Pan.Add in the last cardamom little,few nuts(cashew,almonds,dry grapes).
It’s like Apple Pie and Yellow Cake had a baby!
I love autumn… the colors, cool crisp air and apple season!
What to do with a bunch of apples that need to be eaten? Bake something scrumptious! I had 6 Honey Crisp apples that needed to be used before going bad, so I decided to use them in a cake mix to see how it would come out.
This recipe is easy and results in a very moist, delicious…
Cups
Metric
CHEESECAKE BISCUIT BASE:
▢200g / 7oz Arnott’s Marie crackers or other plain biscuit (Aus) or 28 Graham Cracker squares (Note 1)
▢120 g / 8 tbsp unsalted butter , melted
CHEESECAKE FILLING:
▢1 lb / 500g cream cheese , softened (Note 2)
▢2 tbsp plain flour (all purpose flour)
▢1 tsp vanilla extract
▢1/2 cup sour cream (full fat, sub sour cream)
▢1 1/2 cups caster sugar (superfine sugar)
▢Zest of 1 lemon
▢3 eggs , at room temperature
STRAWBERRY TOPPING FOR CHEESECAKE:
▢500g / 1 lb strawberries , half diced and half halved
▢2 tbsp lemon juice OR water (Note 3)
▢1/2 cup white sugar
▢1/2 tsp vanilla extract
▢1 1/2 tsp cornflour/cornstarch
▢2 tbsp water
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Instructions:
Preheat oven to 160C/320F (standard) or 140C/295F (fan/convection).
Get a 20cm/8″ springform cake tin. Turn the base UPSIDE DOWN (Note 4), butter lightly and place a square piece of parchment/baking paper on the base. Then clip into the springform pan – excess paper will stick out, see photos in post and video.
Butter and line the side of the pan.
CHEESECAKE BISCUIT BASE:
Break up biscuits roughly by hand and place in a food processor.
Blitz until fine crumbs (Note 5). Add butter, briefly blitz until dispersed and it resembles wet sand.
Pour into the prepared cake tin. Use a spatula to roughly spread it out over the base and up the walls.
Use something with a flat base and vertical edges (I used a measuring cup) to press the crumbs up the wall almost to the top of the sides, and flatten the base.
FILLING:
Use a mixer or beater to beat the cream cheese until just smooth, no longer than 20 seconds on speed 4. (You do not want to aerate cheesecake filling as it causes cracks when it bakes)
Add flour, beat for 5 seconds on speed 4 until just incorporated.
Add vanilla, sour cream, sugar and lemon zest. Beat until just combined (10 sec max, speed 5).
Add eggs one at a time, beat in between until just combined (5 sec each), and after the last one, beat just until the egg is fully incorporated.
Pour into prepared crust.
Bake for 55 minutes. The top should be a very light golden brown, not cracked, and near perfectly flat. It should jiggle slightly when you gently shake the pan.
Cool the cake in the oven with the door open 20 cm / 8″ (Note 6), then refrigerate for 4 hours+ in the pan.
Remove sides. Use overhang paper to slide cheesecake off the cake pan. Then slide the cheesecake off the paper.
STRAWBERRY TOPPING FOR CHEESECAKE:
Place chopped strawberries, vanilla, sugar and lemon juices in a saucepan. Stir then bring to simmer over medium heat.
Simmer for 10 minutes until strawberries breakdown.
Mix corn flour with water, then add into saucepan and stir.
Add halved strawberries and cook for 1 minute to soften.
Sauce should be syrupy – remove from stove and cool. Will thicken as it cools.
Once cool, stir. Adjust thickness to make it the right “oozing” consistency with a tiny touch of water (be careful!).
Spoon onto cheesecake so it’s covered with a single layer of strawberries. Flip strawberry halves so they are facedown. Refrigerate 2 hours+.
Slice and serve with remaining Strawberry Sauce!
Recipe Notes:
1. Biscuits: Any plain crackers will work fine here, you need 2 cups of crumbs.
Australia: Arnott’s Marie Crackers, Arrowroot and Nice are ideal, I’ve made it with all these.
US: Use 28 squares / 14 full sheets, yes I measured it with my last Graham Cracker packet I brought back from my last trip.
UK: Digestives are ideal, I LOVE digestives!
The crumb should be like wet sand so when pressed, it stays packed firmly, especially up the wall. It’s delicate when uncooked but once the filling is cooked, it becomes much more stable.
2. Cream Cheese – In the UK and some parts of Europe, block cream cheese isn’t available. If you can only get spreadable cream cheese in tubs (softer than block), skip the sour cream.
3. Lemon Juice or Water – Depends on sweetness of strawberries. If they aren’t that sweet, use water instead.
4. Inverted cake pan with overhang paper: The base of springform pans have a slight ridge. By inverting it, there is no ridge which makes it easier to slide the cheesecake on a serving platter without ruining the crust. There is no risk of batter leakage as the crust is thick enough to hold it all in.
5. Crumbs: OR crush in a zip lock bag using a rolling pin or large can.
6. Cool in oven: This helps stop the surface from cracking.
7. Strawberry topping should be like jam consistency, not a set jelly. It should ooze slightly when cut.
8. Different measures: Cups and spoons vary slightly between countries (US and CAN are different to most of the rest of the world). I have made this recipe using both US and Australian measures, using Australia Marie crackers and US Graham Crackers. The Graham Cracker crust is slightly crunchier because the biscuit doesn’t crush to a fine sand like Marie Crackers do. Both are delicious!
9. Make Ahead / Storage: Cake is at its best consumed within 4 days, after that I feel like it starts getting denser but still really fab, most people wouldn’t notice a difference! Ideal to top the day or or day before. After 2 to 3 days, the top does start to “sweat” but it’s not very noticeable.
For those that save the best until last. Dessert is trending, and this can only be a good thing. Perhaps the very sweetest thing. So, in that spirit, behold this array of sweetest things to help you on your way, this Wednesday, November 22.
We invite you this morning, those sweet of teeth, to peruse our wares of the finest sugary delights: macarons, cakes, doughnuts, and croissants. All of it too pretty to eat, but too tasty not to.