hey ladies, need some of your good recipes, i am using dh cake mixes for a wedding cake and would like to know your favorite doctored way of doing this, i have been told that cutting back on water and adding sour cream was a good idea, but how much? and does this cause it to fall in the middle. thanks for your help.

My fave every day use chocolate cake is the "Darn Good Chocolate Cake" in the recipes (sans chips). This is actually from the Cake Mix Doctor. These books are great! Definitely check them out. Also in the recipes, check out the White Almond Sour Cream cake as well as the Cake Mix Extender.

Sorry, I'm not too original in my ideas. I just use other people's recipes

Last night i tried to add Sour Cream to a choclate cake, I just changed up the WASC and boo! lol. It fell in the middle and didnt tort well, so if anyone knows a great choc cake (from cake mix) please let me know as well. its has to be dense enough so that I can tort it w/out it falling aprt, thanks. sorry i wasnt any help popcorn

I had the same experience using sour cream in a DH chocolate cake mix. It sank when it cooled and was dense as heck. It WAS moist though. lol

I used DH Dark Choc. added an extra egg and a box of chocolate instant pudding. It works well. Good luck!

Wow, I thought it was just me. Mine did the same thing. I used the Walmart brand of choc. cake mix in the WASC recipe and it fell. It was very dense but tasted good. I went ahead and trimmed the cake down and used it. Told everyone it was a "brownie cake"! Think I'll go back to the extra egg and pudding mix too!

I only use doctored DH mixes here is what I add:
Make as directed
1 cup each of flour, sugar and sour cream
1 tsp baking powder and vanilla
1/3 tsp salt
1 egg or egg white for white

To the above I add For chocolate mixes I add 1/2 cocoa powder and substitute coffee for the liquid (dosn't make is mocha, just enhances the chocolate flavor.

for strawberry I add one package strawberry Jello and 4 oz pureed sliced strawberries in syrup with as little juice as possible.

You can also sub any flavor creamer for 1/2 of the liquid for any flavor you wish.

HTH

Stephanie

For choc cake try the WASC recipe with choc fudge cake mixes, and 6 eggs instead of 8 egg whites... for a little extra fold in some choc chips at right before putting in pans. Very moist, delicious, and yummy. Tortes well and stays together.
I have found BC cake mixes work best with the WASC recipe, if using Pilsbury with pudding in the mix cut back on the oil or the cake will be too moist and sticky. HTH!!

THANK YOU! Last night I thought it was just me! glad to hear someone else has has the same prob, i think i'll stick to the egg and pudding

i make my darn good chocolate cake with a betty crocker mix...maybe that works better? ive made it several times with no problems. it is very dense though.

smbegg, I take it that your recipe is using 1 cake mix? I think I'll give it a try before going back to the pudding/egg additives. Sometimes, chocolate cake still has that "box" flavor (does that make sense?) I think adding the coffee would help get away from that flavor. I've also tried adding a little bit of cinnamon to chocolate cake which is very good too. Thanks for the recipe....I'll try it!

Here is the "doctered Recipe" that I use for every cake I make. Its wonderful always comes out great no sinking in the middle and its very moist and great for carving! I have used all different cake mix flavors and pudding flavors with it and I use all the egg intsead of just the white! HTH





http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1972-65-Durable-Cake-for-3D-and-Wedding-Cakes.html

I just use the cake mix extender on this site. i have had sooooo many people tell me that i make the best chocolate cake they have ever eaten. It is a nice dense cake and extremley moist.

I also use the Durable cake recipe and I love it. Everyone who has eaten it says it great! And the WASC cake is yummy too

I have to vote for "Darn Good Chocloate Cake" . It is the best and from a mix. I used it for a 50th, it held up good, and everyone loved it. I just used the scraps to make cake balls. Mixed in Caramel Ameretto Creamer - YYUUUMMMMMMM Nothing can be too chocolate. I use the cake extender also with great results. Only use DH so far. WASC is the best.

shoot!!! I tried to proof that spelling - Chocolate! Sorry for the typo!

I've been using DH devil's food for my chocolate cakes using the WASC recipe. However, instead of 1 C (for one mix) of flour, I add 2/3C of flour, 1/3C cocoa and then follow the rest of the recipe as is. Everyone loves it!

HTH

Jen

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