Do you guys use Duncan Hines or does anyone actually make the "butter cake" home-made for wedding cakes??? This will be my first one and don't know what to do. ALSO, is there somewhere where I can figure out how much fondant I need based on cake size/number of tiers and layers and how many times i should double the cake recipe/how many boxes to use for each layer???????????????? HELP. I'm running out of time and need to do my dry-run this week. I don't want to waste my time making home-made cake if duncan hines is JUST as good or better and easier.

only use a DH doctored mix. You do need to doctor it for weddings to make it dense enough to support the upper layers if stacked.

When its a small cake I use a recipe, when its a large cake I use cake mix.
CakesWithAttitude can you tell me how you doctor your cake mixes Id love to know so the next time I make a large cake Ill know it will hold up.

I would like to know too.

Here's a link to find out fondant amounts Hope it helps

http://www.wilton.com/wedding/makecake/fondant/fondantamounts.cfm

So, how do you doctor a DH cake---i'm making a LARGE one...

Here is a link to some recipes.
http://www.baking911.com/asksarahbb/viewtopic.php?p=8942&sid=c72e2d5e5db5c439a46fcd5efa80f46b I have used the "White Almond Sour Cream Cake" recipe at home and everyone loved it.

change from water to milk or buttermilk or sour cream add an extra egg and you can also add a box of unmixed instant pudding

Hi Ya'll,

Does the extra egg help hold everything together?

Thank you.
Charli

the extra egg also helps it to be more dense; thus answering your question yes it does help hold everything together in the cak preventing crumbling. THat is why if you leave out an egg it crumbles

CakesWithAttitude, should you use all the egg, or just egg whites. Does adding milk instead of water and adding an egg....taste just as good?

the whole egg is needed to make it dense. Egg whites make things fluffy. it actually makes it taste much much better. Soooo yummy

Here is a helpful Pillsbury link that I printed out for help: It's in PDF format-

http://www.pillsburybaking.com/assets/prodPromo/weddingcake.pdf


~Josie

Also, for the stacked cakes I have made-I used the Enhanced cake formula recipe here on this site. It makes it a dense cake.
Good luck!

~Josie