Had to let you know , I crossed my fingers with my sunken cake (I never open oven early) and frosted well with your recipe and addition of almond extract along with vanilla.. All of my coworkers loved it! The birthday girl herself said it tasted like wedding cake which is exactly what I was going for! This recipe is a keeper!!

Hi Michele, yes, that can happen. Did you check on it quite a bit in the oven? Sometimes it will sink if the oven door was opened.

I do not like giving negative reviews , but feel I have to. I have been baking for over 35 years, cakes, cookies, biscuits, breads. I followed this recipe to the T, yet it came out terribly dry, did not rise hardly at all. I made my milky way icing to go on it, but layers looked so, so bad I started to just trash them, but iced it anyway. Let it set overnight. I told my husband I just had to test taste it before taking to Church Christmas party. When I cut into cake, fine dry crumbs fell from cake. I mean, seriously, this is the driest cake I have ever made. I don’t understand how with all the positive reviews that mine came out so bad, but I won’t be doing a do-over.

Hi Cathy, I’m not sure about adding the pudding mix as I haven’t tried that method before. If you do, let me know how it turns out!