This weekend we celebrated
three birthdays! Will and Jack had two birthday parties on Saturday and then, we celebrated my husband's birthday yesterday. I wanted to make a really good cake ~ and a new recipe ~ for his birthday. He's not as big of a fan of chocolate as I am so as hard as it was, I overlooked all the chocolate recipes. I ended up going with a recipe I have been drooling over and which happened to be on my Baking Wish list.
Here it is:
Triple Lemon Blueberry Layer Cake
I also decided to make Mother-in-Law Belle's banana pudding recipe ~ talking about YUM. It is for sure one of my all time favorites!
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| Mix all the dry ingredients together |
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| Add 1 tbsp of the flour mixture to coat the blueberries |
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| Mix together |
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| My stations - squeezing lemons! |
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| Mixing and adding in the eggs for cake batter |
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| Fold in the blueberries |
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| Right out of oven, cooling.... |
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| This is the bottom view ~ check out all those blueberries! |
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| Making the homemade lemon curd |
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| Lots of whisking ~ actually about nine minutes...thanks to hubby for stepping in to take a turn |
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| Finished lemon curd |
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| Making homemade whipped cream ~ 2 cups whipping cream/1 cup confectioners sugar |
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| After whipping at high speed ~ you get this! |
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| I folded the lemon curd into the homemade whipped cream for the filling |
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| Now, for the icing.... |
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| Staking the cakes and putting the filling on |
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| The cake ~ in the making! |
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| And, the finished product! |
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| I was so anxious to cut this cake! |
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| AND, the first piece is for the BIRTHDAY BOY! |
Now, here is the banana pudding! It is always a hit! It's from a recipe that was given to me by my Mother-in-law. You use REAL, homemade whipped cream!
Banana Pudding
5 cups whole milk
10-12 bananas
2 boxes Vanilla wafers
Large box of Vanilla instant pudding mix
16 oz sour cream
1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
3 cups heavy whipping cream
chocolate syrup
chopped pecans
Start by making your homemade whipped cream. Whisk at high speed ~ 3 cups heavy whipping cream & 1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar. Set aside. Then, mix your pudding mix and 5 cups milk. Add the sour cream to the mixture. Once done, fold in 1/2 of your whipped cream into the pudding mixture. Then, start your building ~ vanilla wafer, bananas, pudding mixture. Continue until all done and top with the reserved whipped cream, chocolate syrup and chopped nuts. Enjoy!
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| Make the homemade whipped cream ~ 3 cups whipping cream & 1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar - combine and whisk on HIGH speed |
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| Whipped Cream |
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| After making the pudding mixture, start your layering.....wafers, bananas, pudding...continue |
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| This is what you will get! |
