Filling for layer cake?

[d1sneyf4n]

what kind of filling do you use for your layer cakes you make?

 

[MSSANDRA]

I fill with the same as I frost it with:
1 stick margine or butter
1 pound powder sugar
1 teaspoon flavor of choice
color to tint
little milk to thin as needed

(to make chocolate add 1/2 cup cocoa powder)

to frost and fill you may need to double

 

[chrisw127]

It depends, but usually whatever I'm frosting the cake with. If it's a coconut cake, sometimes lemon curd.

Mmm. Cake.

 

[*Toadstool*]

I fill with the same as I frost it with:
1 stick margine or butter
1 pound powder sugar
1 teaspoon flavor of choice
color to tint
little milk to thin as needed

(to make chocolate add 1/2 cup cocoa powder)

to frost and fill you may need to double

YUM!

 

[d1sneyf4n]

Thanks for the replies. I was trying to get all fancy and do some sort of pudding filling but I have no clue how to do that. Do I just put the pudding between the layers or do I need to add something to the pudding. Then I was thinking maybe like a gnache. All this over my DH best friends bday. His girlfriend is away and as are his parents so I thought we would have him over for dinner(he lives next door) and I would bake him a cake.

 

[Faldred]

You can put just about anything between layers. Make a wall or "dam" of icing around the top outside edge of the bottom layer, fill it in with whatever, and then place the top layer on. The icing will "seal" the edges, keeping the filling inside.

Just make sure to refrigerate the cake if you use a perishable filling.

 

[tzolkin]

No experience with pudding, but a yummy and quick filling I've done a few times is hot fudge and raspberry jam. Just heat it up in the microwave, stir in the raspberry, and pour over the bottom layer (just not too much, so it doesn't leak down the sides-- unless you want to use it as an "icing" for the top of the cake as well. hmmm... now i'll have to try that). This is really good with a dark chocolate cake and I also just recently tried some over cheesecake.

 

[wishtdream]

2 cups heavy cream mixed with your favorite instant pudding makes excellent cake filling.

 

[NotUrsula]

When I use instant pudding to make cake filling, I use half the milk called for -- makes it very thick. Using heavy cream would work, too, I'm sure, but cake is already fattening enough, so I stick with skim milk.

Depending on the type of cake, jarred jams and jellies work well as filling, too.

 

[cinjam]

2 cups heavy cream mixed with your favorite instant pudding makes excellent cake filling.

This is what I use all the time. Add mini-chocolate chips for an extra bonus! Also a PP mentioned making a dam out of icing in between layers. this is imprtant for two reasons: 1) you do not want your filling seeping out ruining your icing and 2) a firm dam will help prevent bulging on the sides

 

[MandM-Mom]

I like to make a chocolate cake with a chocolate mousse filling and before I spread the mousse on I spread on some seedless raspberry jam on the bottom layer and then put the mousee on top....a favorite with all my family! And of course frost in chocolate too

 

[d1sneyf4n]

Thanks for all the replies. You all have been very helpful.

 

[ladyv]

A woman I work with makes cakes on the side professionally and told me a few tips. For the filling, she uses a box of instant custard or vanilla pudding (made with the pie directions, not pudding directions).

When you fill the cake, pipe a line of frosting all along the outside border to make a wall, then spoon in the filling.

I've also used plain strawberry jam and a thin layer of frosting in between my layer cakes.

 

[pyrxtc]

I recently mad e a filling of banana pudding, made wiht half milk and then folded in some home-made whipped cream. Everyone loved it !