Can I add a pkg of choco pudding to my devil's food cake mix?!
Also, do you think vanilla buttercream frosting would be good on this? If so, how many cups of powdered sugar is equal to 1 lb? Should I use 1 lb. powdered sugar with 1 stick or 2 sticks of butter?
Thanks.
Answers: Do I prepare as usual if I add the pudding mix?
Also, do you think vanilla buttercream frosting would be good on this? If so, how many cups of powdered sugar is equal to 1 lb? Should I use 1 lb. powdered sugar with 1 stick or 2 sticks of butter?
Thanks.
Actually you can put a pudding mix to your cake mix. Here's an example of a recipe:
Banana Pudding Cake
PREP TIME 30 Min
COOK TIME 1 Hr
READY IN 2 Hrs
INGREDIENTS
1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
1 (3.5 ounce) package instant banana pudding mix
4 eggs
1 cup water
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup mashed bananas
2 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 dash vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
In a large bowl, stir together cake mix and pudding mix. Make a well in the center and pour in eggs, water, oil and mashed banana. Beat on low speed until blended. Scrape bowl, and beat 4 minutes on medium speed. Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake in a preheated oven for 50 to 55 minutes, or until cake tests done. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
To make glaze: In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla. Whisk until smooth and of a drizzling consistency. When cake is cooled, drizzle icing over cake with a zigzag motion. Sprinkle chopped nuts over wet icing if desired.
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And here's a buttercream recipe for you:
Buttercream Icing
(Medium Consistency)
Ingredients:
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 teaspoon Clear Vanilla Extract
4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (approx. 1 lb.)
2 tablespoons milk
In large bowl, cream shortening and butter with electric mixer. Add vanilla. Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. Add milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Keep bowl covered with a damp cloth until ready to use. For best results, keep icing bowl in refrigerator when not in use. Refrigerated in an airtight container, this icing can be stored 2 weeks. Rewhip before using.
YIELD: Makes about 3 cups.
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4 cups of powedered sugar is equal to 1 lb.
The recipe tells you the ratio of sugar to butter.
Enjoy your baking!
You can't add Instant Pudding to cake mix... Though the kind you cook might work... You would be better off putting it BETWEEN the cake layers then IN the mix...
Here are some links that will help you make both the cake and the frosting...
Good Eats - Episode EA1F14
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ea/...
The Icing Man Cometh
Cake is dandy but let's face it, without frosting it's just sweet bread (not sweetbreads). Host Alton Brown builds a better butter cream then builds a layer cake from ground up...with tools from his local hardware.
Buttercream
Ganache
Writing Chocolate
Good Eats - Episode EA1F13
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ea/...
A Cake on Every Plate
Host Alton Brown finds a challenge in his mail box: decipher a deceased family baker's famous yellow cake.
Cocoa Whipped Cream
Gold Cake
My sister makes cakes for all occasions and always uses a package of instant pudding in the batter. Just add it dry. If you add extra eggs and oil, it makes a nice pound cake style loaf. My favorite.
As to the frosting, astray.com, allrecipes.com and foodnetwork.com all have great recipes. (although I hate buttercream frosting)
Sure, go ahead and prepare as usual but use the instant only. I don't care a lot for cake mixes but when I use it I replace the water with milk and I use 1 stick of butter to a lb of sugar-a lb being 4 cups. Use butter and not margarine and its much better if you use cream or half and half instead of milk.
I used to work for a cake decorator, and this is the buttercream recipe she used (and people loved it!):
Regular buttercream:
http://www.wilton.com/recipes/recipesand...
Chocolate buttercream:
http://www.wilton.com/recipes/recipesand...
If you want to make your cake more moist, try adding a little more of whatever fat you're using, whether it be butter, oil, or shortening. If the cake mix calls for 1/3 cup vegetable oil, used 1/3 cup oil + a tablespoon. Not so healthy, but good.
Vanilla buttercream will be lovely on a chocolate cake.
P.S. One of my favorite icing recipes ever is this:
1 small box powdered sugar (around 3 3/4 c. not sure of the oz. measurement)
1 stick butter, melted
8 oz. cream cheese, room temp
1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
Combine all ingredients with electric mixer. Divine on chocolate and strawberry flavored cakes.
Good luck! Hope this helps!
If you have a Betty Crocker or Pillsbury cake mix they have a toll-free number on the side of the box. The people who answer the phones are very helpful - I have used them several times. If ypur cake mix is Duncan Heinz they have a web site but I've never used it.
ABSOLUTELY YOU CAN!!
? 1 pkg Cake Mix
? 1 (3.4 oz) pkg chocolate instant pudding and pie filling
? 4 large eggs
? 1 1/4 cups water
? 1/2 cup vegetable oil
Here is a recipe for buttercream icing
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (approx. 1 lb.)
2 tablespoons milk
Cream shortening and butter. Add vanilla. Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Add milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Keep bowl covered with a damp cloth until ready to use. Keep icing bowl in refrigerator when not in use. Refrigerated in an airtight container, this icing can be stored 2 weeks. Rewhip before using.
Also yummy with chocolate buttercream icing:
to the recipe above add
3/4 cup cocoa or three 1 oz. unsweetened chocolate squares, melted
1-2 more tablespoons milk