I have a customer who just ordered the 3D Train cake with extra cars on the back and she wants marble cake.I have some great chocolate pound cake recipes as it should be denser to hold up but has anyone used this pan and baked regular cake mixes with it?? Will it hold up if I use a regular chocolate cake mix?



Laurel

I used the 3-D train with a regular Duncan Hines butter cake mix

Held up...BUT didn't really completely fill the back half of the train, so some detail was lost.

Possibly if had used extender recipe would have had enough batter to fully fill it.

I find the marble cake the least dense. I would use the yellow cake mix, removing 1 cup of batter and adding 1/4 cup of cocoa to that per every cake mix you need. Reduce the oil to about 1/4 cup. Reduce the milk or water added by 1/4 cup, add 1/2 cup sour cream, a package of instant pudding and follow the rest of the directions and it should be fine kiddo.
Hugs Squirrelly

Thanks Ma!!! I knew you would have the answer!!!

Haha, well you are welcome kiddo. I had issues with a marble cake once and asked around and experimented. You can thank Labrat, Patrice and Trisha as I do believe that is a combination of their advice, haha. Auzzi's extendacake recipe from R-B can be converted well too and gets nice and dense, haha, like me. There is an old post on R-B about this too.
I know you have a fear of some of these 3-D pans since the snowman or was it Santa incident. Actually that made me leary too!
Have you tried Martha's recipe for the marble cake loaf from her baking book yet? I think that would work well too but you would have to figure out how much batter it makes. I was about to try it but realized I needed, I think, it was buttermilk. I am going to give it a try soon and will let you know the results.
Hugs Ma