How Do I Do Strawberry & Bananna Fruit Filling???
Decorating By CakesByEllen Updated 27 Jun 2006 , 6:39pm by annlou
I have a customer that wants a fruit filling in their cake. I'm pretty sure she wants the custard filling with strawberries and banannas. With strawberries in season, I can't see why not, but I don't know how to do it? do you have to treat the fruit to keep it fresh? Does it just stay fresh in the fridge?
HELP!!!
btw, this cake is for Saturday, so I need help quick!
Hi -
I'm doing a cake in a week and a half for our sons wedding and they want lemon curd and fresh strawberries, the cake store owner of where I shop advises to get organic strawberries and gentle wipe them....no water!!! then slice with an egg slicer. I have read other listings and talked with a few people that have done this and the fruit should be fine for a few days...
I use fresh strawberries in strawberry glaze all the time. As long as you do not use an icing that needs to be refrigerated, it can also be left out of the 'fridge. They also sell pie comstock in strawberries, they are kinda of expensive but less hassle.
HTH
Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try!
Do you think I have to treat the banannas with anything to keep them from browning?
could you make a banana flavored custard rather than using fresh banana? I don't have a specific recipe for you (alot of help, aren't I? 
), but I am thinking that maybe a banana pudding mix would work and you wouldn't have to worry about the bananas turning brown....
You could squirt lemon juice on the bananas, but you have to be careful or the flavor can be pretty strong. I love to do a chocolate filling, sometimes a ganache, and the put sliced fresh strawberrys on top of the chocolate and then layer. It's delicious. Are you mixing the strawberry & banana? If the banana is seperate, I'd make a filling using dream whip, banana pudding mix, and then slice up some fresh banana in it. I think just chunks of banana as a layer would have a yucky texture.Also, you could make a stabalized whipcream and then fold in sliced up chunks of strawberry (I've done this before, it's really good) you could probably even do that with the banana
I get a lot of requests for this cake. I use barvarian cream ( I use the kind that comes in a sleeve) then I put the sliced bananas and then the sliced strawberries. I never make this cake earlier than the night before and refrigerate it right away. The bananas don't get brown but like I said I do it at the last possible moment. LouAnn
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