Has anyone modified the White Almond Sour Cream Cake to make it a pound cake? I'm going to be doing a 3D pirate ship cake, and I want it to be fairly tall and narrower at the bottom. I usually use regular WASC for my cake sculptures but have learned my lesson that if the cake is narrower at the bottom than you really need to use a pound cake or other dense cake. 
Do you think I can just substitute pound cake mixes for regular, either subbing in 1 or 2 mixes??
Thanks!
Courtney
The only modification I've made to WASC for sculpting is adding more yolk.
If you use proper support in your cake, it shouldn't matter that it's not pound cake. The following narrow-bottomed cakes were made with WASC. Clicky herehttp://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=DianeLM&cat=0&pos=8
I've read that adding a small box of instant pudding mix and another egg will help firm up a cake mix, but I don't know how that will work with the WASC recipe; I haven't tried it.
Edited to add: someone also suggested using half a box of pound cake mix. You might have to experiment.
Wow Diane, thanks for posting the pics! I love the indian pottery cake! Thanks for the pirate ship example too! The little boy wants there to be pirates on his ship too of course. Figure modeling is not my forte, lol. Luckily my boys have this really nice playmobil pirate ship that I can use as a model! I'm starting to get inspired
So you just add one more yolk to the basic recipe and that makes it more firm?? I already have modified the recipe and am using one BC yellow mix and one DH butter recipe mix, with more vanilla than almond extract. Plus, I've been using four whole eggs.
I guess my main problem is that the fondant is sometimes too heavy and it pulls down on the top edge and the cake just can't support that sharp angle. This happened to me with the musical topsy turvy cake and I had it supported well. (used sharpened central dowel) I had issues with the baby in a cradle cake too with that darn top edge and heavy fondant... 
Courtney
The only modification I've made to WASC for sculpting is adding more yolk.
If you use proper support in your cake, it shouldn't matter that it's not pound cake. The following narrow-bottomed cakes were made with WASC. Clicky herehttp://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=DianeLM&cat=0&pos=8
Know this is not what your talking about here. But I just have to say I love the watermelon cake. GREAT detail!!!!!
Ahh yes... The dreaded "fondant pulling down the cake" problem! I have that too - even with the modified WASC. All the cakes I posted are iced in buttercream. Back to square one. Phooey. You just may have to bite the bullet and use pound cake.
BTW, that pirate ship I posted - I needed to leave room for the Scooby Doo figurines added by the customer. That's why it's so sparsely decorated.
Ahh yes... The dreaded "fondant pulling down the cake" problem! I have that too - even with the modified WASC. All the cakes I posted are iced in buttercream. Back to square one. Phooey. You just may have to bite the bullet and use pound cake.
BTW, that pirate ship I posted - I needed to leave room for the Scooby Doo figurines added by the customer. That's why it's so sparsely decorated.
Yeah, I just feel safer using pound cake for this. I don't want to have to worry about it. I'll probably just end up experimenting and subbing one mix into my modified recipe.
Wow, I love how smooth you get your buttercrem Diane! 
Maybe I need to change to a crusting BC recipe!?!
I was thinking of doing a ripped sail too. I like how it looks. How did you attach the sails?
Courtney
Wow, I love how smooth you get your buttercrem Diane! Maybe I need to change to a crusting BC recipe!?!
Oh, heck yeah! I started out using a non-crusting bc. I was popping my cakes into the freezer every 2 seconds so I wouldn't mess up the icing. Had to be so careful with everything. Using crusting buttercream has been positively liberating! It's so versatile. It can be shaped and smoothed and most importantly, repaired! You can paint on it, apply fondant accents without smearing it. I could go on, but you get the picture. 
I was thinking of doing a ripped sail too. I like how it looks. How did you attach the sails?
Hmmm... Good question. I don't remember. LOL It looks like I might have used my glue gun. Nothing else really sticks to wafer paper.
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