I am new to cake decorating. Taking my first wiltons class right now.

I read somewhere about putting pudding mix in your cake recipe to make a denser cake. How much pudding would you use?

Why would you want a denser cake? For taste? Stability?

Thanks for any answers.

Jill

Hi and Welcome to CC, Jill.

Why add pudding to cake mix:

http://www.wilton.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=99831

Everything you need to know to make, decorate and assemble tiered/stacked/layer cakes:

http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-605188-.html

The above super thread has popular CC recipes for crusting American buttercreams, several types of fondant and doctored cake mix (WASC and other flavor variations) - and so much more!

HTH