This cute monkey cake will be a hit at any child’s birthday party.
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Cake
1 14 cups sugar
1 cup Land O Lakes® Butter, softened
4 medium (2 cups) ripe bananas, mashed
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 12 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
12 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Frosting
1 14 cups Land O Lakes® Butter, softened
8 12 cups powdered sugar
18 teaspoon salt
23 cup Land O Lakes® Heavy Whipping Cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons light corn syrup
12 cup unsweetened cocoa
Red food color
Yellow food color
STEP 1
Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 13x9-inch baking pan; set aside.
STEP 2
Combine sugar and 1 cup butter in bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Add eggs; continue beating until well mixed. Add bananas; beat at low speed until well mixed. Add all remaining cake ingredients. Continue beating, scraping bowl often, until mixed.
STEP 3
Pour cake batter into prepared pan. Bake 35-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 1 hour.
STEP 4
Beat 1 1/4 cups butter in bowl until creamy. Beat at low speed, gradually adding powdered sugar and salt alternately with whipping cream and vanilla until well mixed. Stir in corn syrup.
STEP 5
Place 1 1/2 cups frosting into another bowl. Add cocoa; beat until well mixed. Place 1 1/2 cups white frosting in another bowl; tint with 1 drop red food color and 1 drop yellow food color. Tint remaining white frosting with yellow food color.
STEP 6
Place cooled cake upside down onto platter. Frost entire cake with yellow frosting.
STEP 7
Print 2 copies of template. Cut around solid lines for full monkey head template. Cut second copy out around dotted line for face template. Place full monkey head template onto cake; draw around cut-out edges with toothpick. Remove template. Place face template onto cake; draw around outer edge with toothpick. Remove template.
STEP 8
Cover face and inside of ears with orange frosting piped stars. Pipe chocolate frosting stars onto head and ears.
STEP 9
Place toothpicks to mark nose, eyes and mouth. Fill with chocolate frosting using round decorator tip. Remove toothpicks.
Add 1 to 2 tablespoons whipping cream to frosting to reach spreading consistency, if needed.
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