I have been a member of CC for a couple of years now, but only recently started to really get in to making cakes on a regular basis. I tried the chocolate doctered cake mix recipe and OMG! It frosted like a dream, held the weight of my palm tree proto type without falling apart, and got rave reviews. I had nightmares that the tree would pull off the support dowel and plunk down onto the base cake. But it transported and held up perfectly for a "Margatritaville" party. Not that my co-workers would ever complian about my trail cakes , they love getting the experiments! The final cake will have a much larger tree, I'm still working out how to stack and support that version. I'll never make a plain cake mix again, cross my heart, hope to die! Even though the overall cake design was not very good, I was delighted with the palm tree and will work out the rest of the design so that it's more appealing. I know it needs more palm fronds sticking upright. I'll take any sugguestions to improve the design, so I've included the picture.

Love the palm!! What chocolate cake recipe are you talking about? Please post!

Hey that looks great as is to me! Job well done!
I'd love a copy of that cake recipe ....do you mind sharing?

Great palm tree! I'd love to see the recipe too...

I can never find a recipe twice, but I wrote it down:

Ducun Hines cake mix

4 egg whites for white cake-whole eggs for chocolate

1/3 water- coffee for chocolate

2/3 cup butter milk

1/3 cup oil

1 pkg. instant pudding (my mix had pudding in it so I left it out)

Makes a dense but moist cake!

Thanks for sharing it!!!

Thank you!!!

Oh, just saw all the spelling mistakes in my post. Guess I need more coffee!.

You did really good!
Edna

Great timing!! I was just about to search for a doctored chocolate cake recipe. Thanks for sharing!

thanks...Need a choc. cake recipe today!

Edna

Watched your tutorial yesterday, it was great. I plan to try out the technique next weekend!

Thanks for the great recipe! I love edna's video also. THe easiest to understand that i have found!

Might I suggest taking out the pudding and adding 1/2 cup sour cream? It makes for a wonderful cake. JMO.

Thank you so much for the cake recipe, i was in need of a good chocolate cake recipe... and i love the cake..... but for me ANYTHING margaritaville will do!

Does that include if the cake mix says it has a cup of pudding in it?

Your palm tree looks good; the only thing I'd change up a bit is the trunk, it looks too thick. Would love to see your final cake!

Best of luck!

I am never happy with my recipes and always on the look out for that "perfect" cake .. have to try this one too!!

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