Tried the smith island cake...It's usually an 8, 10 or 12 thin layers of yellow cake with a fudgy frosting. I used my favorite boxed cake mix, Betty crocker butter recipe yellow...I used whole milk vs water...In the past, my guests and I are extremely pleased with the taste and texture of this mix when using milk.
Upon my research, many sites said to use 1/2c of batter for an 8" pan and 2/3c of batter...Two major observations, I was probably just reading info from the wrong sites, but you need more batter than that. Second, the viscosity of the batter changes after 15mins and the volume needs to increase the more time lapse...
Problems I had were varying thickeness of layers...I think a lot of it had to do with the viscosity of the batter over time. Perhaps homemade mix would fair better, but again, I'm happy using boxed cake...
For the future, regardless of size, I'd buy two boxed cake mixes for an eight layer or three mixes for a 12 layer...Make one mix at a time, fill four cake pans and use the remaining batter for cake batter cookies...A few mins before that batch is done, I'd then start making the second mix, and repeat...
Here's what it SHOULD of looked like:
Upon my research, many sites said to use 1/2c of batter for an 8" pan and 2/3c of batter...Two major observations, I was probably just reading info from the wrong sites, but you need more batter than that. Second, the viscosity of the batter changes after 15mins and the volume needs to increase the more time lapse...
Problems I had were varying thickeness of layers...I think a lot of it had to do with the viscosity of the batter over time. Perhaps homemade mix would fair better, but again, I'm happy using boxed cake...
For the future, regardless of size, I'd buy two boxed cake mixes for an eight layer or three mixes for a 12 layer...Make one mix at a time, fill four cake pans and use the remaining batter for cake batter cookies...A few mins before that batch is done, I'd then start making the second mix, and repeat...
Here's what it SHOULD of looked like: