Can You Use Jello Mix In Place Of Pudding In Cakes

wyowolf Posted 28 Sep 2012 , five:50pm

I'chiliad wanting to know if you can substitute jello gelatin for jello pudding in recipes? I'grand not sure what the gelatin does for recipes, aside from adding flavor. I believe the pudding adds density?

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BakingIrene Posted 28 Sep 2012 , vi:27pm

Powdered Jello gelatin is about 85% carbohydrate and 10% gelatin by weight. Weight of season/colour 5%. Main function in cake batter is like carbohydrate, and flavour/color come along for the ride.

Instant pudding mix has sugar and modified starch, harder to give proportions. Starch has been cooked and freeze dried to reconstitute into a pudding "instantly" and it grabs water every bit soon equally liquid is added. It holds the moisture amend in baked cake. Information technology as well decreases the effective gluten content causing a more tender block crumb.

NO they aren't interchangeable. The cakes volition be dissimilar.

stsapph Posted 28 Sep 2012 , 6:47pm

It could depend on the recipe. If it'south a scratch recipe that calls for pudding, so no for reasons stated above. However if you are calculation it to a mix, then I have interchanged them successfully in the past to have dissimilar flavour combinations that I could not go with the puddings. I'm sure this is considering the cake mixes have and then much stuff already in there that the stability is not effected, but I don't actually know the science backside it for sure.

wyowolf Posted 28 Sep 2012 , seven:00pm

I should take mentioned I'm working with a doctored block mix, not a scratch recipe.

Stsapph, have you used them interchangeably in a doctored cake mix recipe? The type where you add together eggs, sour cream, pudding (hence my issue)?

BakingIrene, I'one thousand glad to know that they are Not interchangeable in a scratch recipe. Thanks for that communication!

stsapph Posted 28 Sep 2012 , 7:05pm

The recipe I have interchanged them with is:
one Mix
1 package of jello pudding
4 eggs
1 loving cup buttermilk (or sour cream)
i/3 cup oil
HTH

heysugar504 Posted 28 Sep 2012 , 7:52pm

I have interchanged them in doctored mix recipes and had wonderful results. I was converting a lemon block to key lime. Since there is no cardinal lime pudding, I used lime jello, It was wonderful! Texture was almost the aforementioned as the original recipe and the flavour was amazing.

Rosie2 Posted 28 Sep 2012 , 8:32pm

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Originally Posted past heysugar504

I have interchanged them in doctored mix recipes and had wonderful results. I was converting a lemon block to primal lime. Since there is no key lime pudding, I used lime jello,.

Hi, so you used a lemon cake mix and added pulverization lime jello?
Thank you!

heysugar504 Posted 19 November 2012 , 5:35pm

I know this is old, only I used a white cake mix, key lime yogurt, and lime jello. Worked out wonderfully! It was derived from the Cake Mix Md'southward Lemon Lovers cake.