The Cake Mix Doctor

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:12 am **Pudding and gelatin**

Is it ever advisable to add both pudding and gelatin to the same cake? I want to modify the basic yellow pound cake recipe to a strawberry or raspberry flavor for a baby shower cake, and I'm wondering if I can get away with adding gelatin. That'd probably end up being too much extra sugar, wouldn't it. And adding fruit would kill the structural strength of the pound cake, which I need for the shape and size I'm making. I may just go with white cake mix, red food coloring, raspberry extract, and raspberry jam between the layers. Any other ideas?

~Valerie
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:45 pm

I have seen recipes that use a small box of jello in the batter or what may be better is to bake the cake and poke holes in it while it's still hot and pour a mixture of whatever jello you want and hot water over I have seen recipes for that too. The poke cake might only work for a flat cake though not a layer cake. I have never baked either, just seen the recipes, I hope that helps a little though.
birdy

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:15 pm

There is also a strawberry supreme cake mix, I think Betty Crocker makes it. One more idea, again for a sheetcake is to bake the cake, pokes small holes all over it while still warm and spread thawed frozen strawberries or raspberries in syrup over the top the ice with a fluffy cream cheese or whipped cream icing. Yum! Or you could bake the triple decker strawberry layer cake from page 67 in the 1st CMD book. It uses a white cake mix and a 3 ounce package of strawberry jello. Also fresh strawberries and juice. It is very pretty and pink.
birdy

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:44 pm

Thanks, birdy. I ended up going with what I had on hand to make a "pink lemonade" cake -- just a lemon cake with pink food coloring to make it nice and girly.

~Valerie
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"Make us masters of ourselves that we may be the servants of others." ~Sir Alexander Patterson