Different fillings will make the denseness of the cake different. I.E. I used key lime pie filling (standard 15 oz. size) and the denseness was more firm and maybe 2" thick when cooled. More like a spongy bar cake. I used strawberry/rubarb and the cake rose really high and sank down to the 2" or so and was more dense. Lemon will be similar to the key lime. The chocolate filling left it a bit less dense. Same with the pineapple...probably because of the extra liquid in the can. The cherry was good but the taste was faint. It needs something else ....as topping maybe or add the cocoa powder. Because you aren't adding any other liquids that the box says the cake will not rise like a normal angel food cake and will be more dense and less fluffy in texture. This is what you might think as "tough and chewy" that makes it more like a bar cake.
Last edited by craftygater; 04-30-2014 at 06:42 AM.