Making White Cake Into Chocolate
Decorating By Jennz818 Updated 23 Nov 2005 , 4:37pm by MsTonyasCakes
Hi everyone,
Quick question...I have a customer who only wants a small 2 tiered cake...the problem is that she wants 1 tier white and the other chocolate...can I just add cocoa powder to my cake mix after I've filled the 1st pan to make it chocolate for the smaller second pan?
I didn't want to make 2 boxes of cake mix because I'm getting paid the bare minimum but it's a friend of mine....
Thanks for the help,
Jennz818
I've used a recipe where I added chocolate milk instead of water and a box of chocolate pudding to the white cake mix. I also added some hersheys chocolate syrup and it came out great! You could probably add cocoa powder too but I don't know how much or if you'd need extra sugar. Maybe someone will be able to help with that.
Well, the most I have experimented with the adding of coca powder to a white or yellow cake is when I have wanted to make a marble cake. Then I added 1/4 cup cocoa to the one cup of reserved white or yellow cake batter and it worked great. My only concern is likely you will be using about 2 cups of batter and if you doubled the cocoa powder to 1/2 cup per two cups batter, I am not sure if it would make the cake batter dry. I suppose you could give it a try. Otherwise you could get one to the mixes that only makes one layer.
Hugs Squirrelly
thanks for the info. I hadn't thought of using hersheys syrup instead of powder... Squirrelly, I agree I would think that the powder would really dry it out anyway.
Lisa, I think I'll try the chocolate milk and pudding. Do you think I should stay away from the box mix that already has pudding in it?
Thanks again,
Jenn
me either lisa... I've added pudding to my cake mixes that already contain it and they come out just fine .. so a box of chocolate pudding and hershey's syrup added to it would work I'd think.
If it were me, I'd go ahead and make the extra cake. You can either freeze it for a short notice-quickie cake, or what my family prefers me to do is use the extra for experimenting/practicing so they can eat it. 
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