How to Fill Your Cake With Vanilla Pudding

Fill a cake with vanilla pudding to enhance the dessert at your next event.

If you are looking for an alternative to the same old boxed cake mix, but don't have the time to study up on decorating techniques or soufflé baking, you can still whip up something special. Filling a regular cake with vanilla pudding is an easy way to dress up your dessert and make it look professional. You can either make the cake and icing from scratch, or save time and buy canned frosting and a boxed cake. Prepare the cake and pudding according to the instructions and follow these easy steps.

Things You'll Need

• Cake, baked and cooled
• 1 package prepared instant vanilla pudding
• Knife
• Cakeboard
• Off-set spatula
• Buttercream icing
• Icing bag or plastic baggie
• Icing tip, size 5 or larger

Instructions

1. Bake any flavor cake in two separate layer cake pans. Allow them to cool or put them in the refrigerator or freezer to speed this up. Level each cake by shaving off the risen, domed part of the cake with a long bread knife, so the cakes are as flat as possible. Turn one layer of cake upside down on a cakeboard, so the part you just leveled is the bottom of the cake.

2. Place the icing tip into the icing bag. Use a plastic baggie with a hole cut in the corner if you don't have an icing tip and icing bag; it will be less exact, but for filling the cake, this won't be a problem. Fill the icing bag with buttercream icing.

3. Hold the icing tip just above the surface of the cake's edge. Squeeze out frosting from the bag while moving the tip all the way around the circumference of the surface. Ring the cake all the way around the top with a generous line, which will hold the pudding filling in place.

4. Spoon the pudding into the center of the cake and spread it evenly with an off-set, or icing, spatula. Layer the pudding as high as the ring of icing on the edge.

5. Turn the second cake layer over and place it on top of the layer of pudding so the flat bottom side becomes the top of the cake. Finish icing the cake by spreading buttercream icing over the edges and the top of the cake.

References

• Sugar Craft: Pastry Filling
• I Food TV: Pudding Filling Recipe
• Midwest Living: Easy Cake and Brownie Makeovers

Resources

• What's Cooking America: Cake Filling