Who has tried the strawberry filling recipe on here? (NOT a cream or mousse one, just strawberry) I see you can add fresh or frozen berries and was just wondering if using frozen would not be as good as fresh. I have a cake due for next weekend and don't have any more H&H strawberry filling on hand and don't really want to go shopping for it (Cake store is an hour away) so I thought I'd try it from scratch this time.

Also, the customer wants strawberry or strawberry/banana filling. I've never used banana as a filling. Should I just mash them up and put that on?? Add some banana extract maybe? Or is there some 'recipe' I don't know about?!?! Thanks!