Ok, so I have an order for a football helmet cake like the one in my photos. The customer wants chocolate cake with peanut butter mousse filling. When I made this cake last time I used the recipe on here for Durable Cake for 3D and wedding cakes. I made it exactly as the recipe stated using white cake mix and vanilla pudding.
Here's the link:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1972-Durable-Cake-for-3D-and-Wedding-Cakes.html
Anyway, I used this recipe for a chocolate cake the other night by just substituting the white cake mix for devil's food and the vanilla pudding for chocolate.) It seemed to be a lot more dense than the white cake with the same recipe! Any ideas on how I can make it a little les dense. I would love to use this recipe and just tweak a couple things if I can. Thanks ahead of time!
I'm no expert but I think you should reduce the amount of sourcream. Its such a miniscule amount of oil compared to the sourcream. I'd take the sourcream down to 1/2 to 3/4 of cup.
Or omit the oil to begin with and continue mixing. When you got to the sourcream break it up into 2 batches and see how the batter looks. If it looks and feels like cake batter consistency. Then decide if you want to add the oil or the sourcream, or neither.
Thanks fmandds! Whereabouts are you in Utah? And a runner, too?! We have so much in common! I'm not running in marathons *yet* but I ran in three 5ks this summer and I'm training to do 10ks next summer. Thanks for trying the help me out. I decided to use a little less oil and half sour cream and half milk for the liquid. It's baking right now. I'll let you know how it turns out!
When I do 3D with chocolate cake I use the super-enhanced cake formula recipe, but substitute a chocolate cake mix for the white.....it's more like a pound cake texture, it works really well for carving.
Great! Is that recipe on this site?
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I am in Bountiful, live and work. Congrats on running! Any amount of running deserves kudos. I wanted to start out doing 5k's but I have a co-worker/boss that insisted we train together and do a marathon. I've known him for quite a while(he dated my sister before he was a boss) and he suckered me into it. Funny thing is, when it came time to run the marathon he couldn't participate. I ran it without him. Then he said he'd do the next one, but yet I ran without him. Finally on the third one, he joined me. I've only done five(three Utah ones and two Vegas), while he has now surpassed me and has done seven. I don't know how men(and some women 
) can run them month after month. I have to take about a month to recover. Anyways....back on topic, 
Let us know how dense this cake is for you. When I made a cake with nothing but cake mix and yogurt I thought it was super heavy b/c of how dense it was. It was delicious though. And I'm thinking sourcream/yogurt aren't that far off from each other.
Pretending to be pancake...
Here is that link. Hope that helps.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1953-0-Super-Enhanced-Cake-Formula.html
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That's hilarious, fmandds! Hey, I'm a cake decorator, not a computer tech-y right!! Thanks you guys! The cake again was too dense. I baked a sheet cake that turned out flat and a sports ball cake that fell in the middle. Ugh! I am just about to give up! I just can't bake a decent chocolate cake! I'm going to have to start over again from scratch. Literally. I'm out of mixes and it is way too late to go to the store. Wish me luck!
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