Been using the 3D Durable cake recipe with much luck...love it. Tried to use the Enhanced Cake recipe this weekend and all heck broke loose...

Making 12"x2" hexagons -- followed the recipe and included the butter as stated - I also threw in a packet of instant pudding...went to bake the cakes (flower nail in middle and bake even strips)...well, at 325 (as the directions said and my oven was truly at 325) I cooked the first layer for a little over an hour - toothpick came out with a few crumbs -- ten minutes of cooling and cake sunk and when I flipped it out it was obviously not completely cooked with no crumbcoat on outside hardly at all....

Onto the second layer, cooked this one for over 1.5 hours - it got a better crumbcoat on the outside but still sunk a bit and really doesn't feel very solid -- worried that when I layer it is going to fall apart on me...

Is this normal or did I mess up? I'd like to have a couple of options besides the 3D cake recipe.....

Lisanne

Are you talking about this recipe?

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1599-Enhanced-Cake-Formula.html

I've made it many times, it's my favorite way to doctor now. I always make it with Pillsbury and with the butter, as recommended. Maybe the pudding is what threw you off? I've never had any trouble with it.

It seems if you added the pudding you were not following the recipe. Not that I know what that extra pudding would do..... Maybe make it sweeter, plus it has gelatin, probably, You didn't substitute the pudding for anything, did you?

I think this recipe is a good one, and reliable. Actually, I bake everything from scratch, but I have used this recipe for one huge cake that I was donating.

That's a head scratcher, but I like this recipe because it tastes more like scratch cake. I think adding more processed ingredients into the mix especially sweet ones works against that goal.

JMO

Hi,

I searched for a 3D durable cake recipe in the Cakecentral.com files. None shows. Is the 3d recipe here?

I'm going to cut hexagons and attempt to cut points into a cake.

I need a strong 3d cake.

This is the link:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1972-Durable-Cake-for-3D-and-Wedding-Cakes.html

It's called Durable Cake for 3D and Wedding Cakes