I am making a 9/13 choc cake for my husbands work but don't really want to use 2 cake mixes. I am thinking about using one of the cake extenders on this site. Has anybody used them and which one do you use and did you like it. I noticed one uses more sugar and sour cream. The other uses less sugar, no sour cream but only 1/2 box pudding mix. ...Any body??
(me!)
I tried the one with sour cream....and personally I didn't like the sour taste it gave the cake. But I AM picky!
The extender recipe that I use is this:
1 cup All purpose flour
3/4 granulated sugar
2/3 milk
2 sticks softened salted butter
1 tsp baking powder.
I love it because it doesn't totally add a new taste to the cake like the sour cream or yogurt recipes do. But I also prefer cakes without a real strong flavor other than yellow or chocolate.
So far, the one that has worked the best for me on a chocolate cake is this one:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2322-86-White-Almond-Sour-Cream-Cake.html
I substitute the almond extract with more vanilla.
I personally do not like the recipes that call for pudding. But, that is just me. I have printed a bunch of chocolate cake recipes, even some scratch but I have not had time to try each one of them. I looking for one that I will totally love. 
I tried the one with sour cream....and personally I didn't like the sour taste it gave the cake. But I AM picky!
The extender recipe that I use is this:
1 cup All purpose flour
3/4 granulated sugar
2/3 milk
2 sticks softened salted butter
1 tsp baking powder.
I love it because it doesn't totally add a new taste to the cake like the sour cream or yogurt recipes do. But I also prefer cakes without a real strong flavor other than yellow or chocolate.
I used this one also, because I had no sour cream, and it worked great! It didnt alter the taste at all and it wasnt dry!!!
I raise my hand for sour cream. Everyone asks me what I do to my cakes to make them so moist and make them taste so good. They never believe I use a mix. I'd like to make them think it's my secret ingredients but I always tell the truth about the extender recipe. 
Diane
well....actually, when I made it, I used the plain yogurt instead of sour cream....and it had a definite sour taste (like plain yogurt does). I can only imagine how the sour cream must taste.
Is the yogurt much different than the sour cream?
I don't know.....maybe I'm just picky!
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