Adding Pudding Questions

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mcshay Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 4:51pm
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I'm making a Duncan Hines French Vanilla cake tonight. I will be adding an extender to it, milk instead of water, etc. I've never tried French Vanilla cake mix before, so having a problem deciding what pudding I should put in there.

My question is, what sort of pudding should I use? I have French Vanilla, White Chocolate, Banana Cream, and Vanilla.

BTW, this is for a baby shower and I am making all of my hapless victims be my taste tester whether they want to be or not. icon_lol.gif

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FunCakesVT Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 4:53pm
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I am boring and so would want to complement the flavor of the cake, so I would use French vanilla pudding, but it depends on what your customer might want...

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mcshay Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 5:00pm
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My customer doesn't care. Everytime I ask her a question it is, "Whatever you think is best." The only things she requested was that the colors be green and yellow. The theme needed to be bees. Other than that, I could do anything.

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FunCakesVT Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 5:06pm
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Seems like you would be fine with any of them, but in my personal opinion the banana pudding would add a banana flavor and not everyone likes bananas, so I would stick with one of the other three...

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MommyChristine Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 5:13pm
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I made a DH french vanilla cake for Easter, I filled it with strawberry dreamwhip and could mostly taste that. I'm not a fan of FV normally but this was really light so it was ok for me. Not sure if that'll help.

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pinkopossum Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 5:19pm
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Originally Posted by FunCakesVT

Seems like you would be fine with any of them, but in my personal opinion the banana pudding would add a banana flavor and not everyone likes bananas, so I would stick with one of the other three...




I agree with FunCakes, you'd hate to have someone complain that there was banana in the cake - unless no one has a problem with that flavor.

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AuntEm Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 6:10pm
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I make frech vanilla all the time And the only time I have added pudding I used french vanilla.

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michelegator Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 6:28pm
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Hi,

I use the Duncan Hines French Vanilla all the time and have tried the following fillings....chocolate pudding, raspberry filling, strawberry filling, amaretto mousse, and just plain vanilla pudding. The raspberry was real sweet but it gave the layers a pretty color contrast. You could even try a little strawberry with coolwhip...that's tasty too.

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patton78 Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 6:37pm
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I would add French Vanilla to enhance the flavor. I always add the same flavor pudding and it really helps intesify the flavor.

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mcshay Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 8:27pm
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Thanks! I'll use the French Vanilla.

I wonder what the White Chocolate will taste? I'll have to try that on a plain white cake next. Anyone tried that one yet?

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AuntEm Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 8:37pm
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I haven't used it in the mix but I have used it as a filling. It was good but didn't have a very strong taste so it would go with a lot of different flavors.

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playingwithsugar Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 8:42pm
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That particular cake has a very strong and sweet vanilla flavor to it. I would use the french vanilla to keep the crumb the same flavor, then add a complimentary filling to it -- raspberry, lemon, pineapple - something a little tart.

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texaskitty Posted 24 Apr 2006 , 9:57pm
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I can personally say do not use the banana pudding. I did that with my french vanilla cake and it was not pleasing. I love bananas, but the tastes did not go together very well. One that I did like though, was a mixture of vanilla pudding and butterscotch. I mix it about half and half or with a little more vanilla to cut back on the butterscotch flavor a bit.

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hlaw97 Posted 25 Apr 2006 , 2:13am
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FV with White Choco pudding to the mix OMG it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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