How do you make a cake with cooked pudding?

Instant pudding is a great comfort food, but buying it one box at a time when it's not on sale gets expensive. Here's how you can make your own instant pudding mix in chocolate, vanilla, or any flavor you'd like. It's easy, delicious, and well worth making your own instant pudding mix. Step 1 Combine all dry ingredients. If you're making chocolate pudding, add 2.5 cups of the unsweetened cocoa powder. For flavors that you'll use liquid flavoring extracts, don't add the flavoring now! If, though, you wanted to make a vanilla cinnamon instant pudding mix, you would add the cinnamon now, to taste (we use two tablespoons). Step 2 Store in an air-tight container until you're ready to use. Step 3 To prepare, add one half cup mix to two cups milk, mix in a saucepan over low heat, and heat and stir constantly while boiling. Step 4 Once cool, add liquid flavoring extracts like .5 tsp vanilla extract or .5 tsp lemon extract. (You could even add coconut extract or other flavors! Yum.) Step 5 Refrigerate until ready to serve. Homemade instant pudding mix is especially delicious with whipped cream on top! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you like to learn how I made one piece of chocolate cake decrease from 280 calories to 180? I got this cool idea from a girlfriend at work, and honestly did not think it would work, so I tried it the same afternoon. Any you will have to follow my (very first) EHOW post and just see for yourself. Read on my friends... Step 1 Place one cake mix into a bowl. Stir one 12 ounce Diet Coke into the mix until smooth. It is not necessary to remove all the lumps, just mix like a brownie mix. It makes no difference if the Coke is cold or room temperature. Step 2 Pour the batter into your prepared pan as directed on cake mix package (or to reduce calories, use a non-stick spray). Step 3 Bake as directed (or slightly less). Step 4 I found this as a good sweet treat while trying diligently to watch my daily calorie total. It satisfied my chocolate craving, and I hope it does your too. This was the first time I actually enjoyed a piece of cake that was not "caked" in frosting. Enjoy! == * Cake mix * Diet Coke * Bowl, spoon, butter spray, pan and oven