diff --git a/Cake/Test/TestCase/View/Helper/StringTemplateTraitTest.php b/Cake/Test/TestCase/View/Helper/StringTemplateTraitTest.php
index 08c4ea7e6dd..3ed4728a31d 100644
--- a/Cake/Test/TestCase/View/Helper/StringTemplateTraitTest.php
+++ b/Cake/Test/TestCase/View/Helper/StringTemplateTraitTest.php
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 <?php
 /**
- * PHP 5
- *
  * CakePHP(tm) Tests <http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/testing.html>
  * Copyright (c) Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
  *
@@ -21,7 +19,7 @@
 use Cake\View\Helper\StringTemplate;
 
 /**
- * PaginatorHelperTest class
+ * StringTemplateTraitTest class
  *
  */
 class StringTemplateTraitTest extends TestCase {
@@ -29,19 +27,40 @@ class StringTemplateTraitTest extends TestCase {
 	use StringTemplateTrait;
 
 /**
- * testInitStringTemplates
+ * setUp method
  *
  * @return void
  */
-	public function testInitStringTemplates() {
+	public function setUp() {
+		parent::setUp();
 		$templates = [
 			'text' => '<p>{{text}}</p>',
 		];
 		$this->_initStringTemplates($templates);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * testInitStringTemplates
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testInitStringTemplates() {
 		$result = $this->templates(null);
 		$this->assertEquals($result, [
 			'text' => '<p>{{text}}</p>'
 		]);
 	}
 
+/**
+ * testFormatStringTemplate
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testFormatStringTemplate() {
+		$result = $this->_formatStringTemplate('text', [
+			'text' => 'CakePHP'
+		]);
+		$this->assertEquals($result, '<p>CakePHP</p>');
+	}
+
 }
diff --git a/Cake/View/Helper/StringTemplateTrait.php b/Cake/View/Helper/StringTemplateTrait.php
index ff4f0453f54..d163be84908 100644
--- a/Cake/View/Helper/StringTemplateTrait.php
+++ b/Cake/View/Helper/StringTemplateTrait.php
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 
 use Cake\View\StringTemplate;
 
+/**
+ * Adds string template functionality to any class by providing methods to
+ * load and parse string templates.
+ */
 trait StringTemplateTrait {
 
 /**
@@ -29,10 +33,11 @@ trait StringTemplateTrait {
  * Initializes the StringTemplate class and loads templates
  *
  * @param array $templates
+ * @param string $templateClass Class name of the template class to instantiate
  * @return void
  */
-	protected function _initStringTemplates($templates = []) {
-		$this->_templater = new StringTemplate();
+	protected function _initStringTemplates($templates = [], $templateClass = '\Cake\View\StringTemplate') {
+		$this->_templater = new $templateClass();
 		$this->_templater->add($templates);
 		if (isset($this->settings['templates'])) {
 			$this->_templater->load($this->settings['templates']);
@@ -53,4 +58,15 @@ public function templates($templates = null) {
 		return $this->_templater->add($templates);
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Format a template string with $data
+ *
+ * @param string $name The template name.
+ * @param array $data The data to insert.
+ * @return string
+ */
+	protected function _formatStringTemplate($name, $data) {
+		return $this->_templater->format($name, $data);
+	}
+
 }