what recipe do you all use for carving a cake??? i usually use box mixes that are doctored up, but i know that's not going to work for a carved cake.

are they some that hold up well and still taste good??

The things that I have carved were done with variations of the WASC recipe. I usually put the whole eggs in, not just the whites and don't know if that makes a difference.

I bake from scratch and my chocolate, regular butter cake, and pound cake all work well for me.

I use the extender recipe and it really works well..........it makes the cake so moist my family love it. hth

Definitely use the original WASC recipe

Original it is!

Double (or is it triple?? I forget) chocolate cake on Epicurious works like a charm. Just for the heck of it, I toss in chunks of choco before baking too. I can carve right thru it.

whats original and whats wasc?

well...i just made the wasc and my husband loved it, but my son said it was so, so. whatever that means.

it's great for wedding cakes because it is dense and moist, but not for carving. i'm making a purse cake and it didn't do so well, so i found an almond pound cake recipe on the web, made some changes to it and bam! this cake is awesome, it's moist, dense, and is excellent for carving!!!

I swear by that extender recipe...

no that isn't the one. it's an almond pound cake recipe.

Diane, could you share the recipe you ended up using? The almond pound cake?? I've not carved cakes b4, but want to do a couple for my FIL and GFIL this year... I was thinking the WASC would do to carve but now I'm nervous Thanks!

For my carved cakes I use the durable cake recipe and the chocolate durable cake recipe (found in the recipes section.)

Thank you for asking this! I'd love to know as well...carving cakes intrigues me but I've never been able to figure out what kind of cake works best!

The only "carved" type cake I've ever done is the bus in my pictures. I just used a boxed cake mix (it was my very first non-wilton class cake!) and it did alright, I just had to crumb coat really well.