A Practice Cake---How does it taste?

This cake is not the first, and hopefully not the last cake i have done, but I figured it was about time to get something posted on here!  I actually decorated this cake while taking a cake decorating class, so it was more practice for decorating than really baking anything in particular.  The flowers really have no purpose to them, other than that i was practicing how to make them, and the basket weave is the first one I've ever done.  The cake itself was just a store bought cake mix, which very nicely made two 9in rounds, and between the layers i put chocolate pudding.  I can't remember off hand, but i believe the cake mix was a yellow cake, but it also could have been french vanilla.... i should write these things down.  Typically I would make a cake from scratch, but i was running late, and made the cake the morning of my class, and really didn't have time to go through making a cake, and making icing, and frosting it.... you get the point.  Well anyway, I have no idea how this cake tasted because upon arriving home from my class my husband promptly took one look at the cake and said that we should give it to the neighbors (who had previously welcomed us to the neighborhood by bringing us a very sticky, gooey, and very sweet concoction which i do not even know the name for but was quite good---i will have to get the recipe sometime and try it out!).  So the neighbors got the cake, but at least i got some somewhat decent pictures of it before i had to hand over my very first basket weave masterpiece.  I do wish i would have gotten to taste it, because i had never used pudding as a filling before and was curious to see how it turned out; in hindsight, giving away a cake in which you have done some experimenting probably isn't the best way to make a first impression, but i am hopeful that it was at least edible enough that the kids could manage to eat it all, hey kids eat anything right...well mine do anyway :-)