Tips How To Doctor A Boxed Cake Mix To Taste Like Homemade
Turn any boxed cake mix into a moist, delicious homemade tasting cake using these homemade cake tips. Your cakes will taste more moist and more like homemade with these simple substitutions.
Tips How To Doctor A Boxed Cake Mix To Taste Like Homemade
Using a few simple substitutions, your boxed cakes will taste rich, moist, and homemade. You can substitute one ingredient or experiment and try substituting a couple ingredients for an even more homemade tasting cake.
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Chocolate Cake Mix
Hot Water– When the chocolate cake mix calls for water, add HOT water. It makes the cake CHOCOLATE-ier. The chocolate cocoa flavor “develops” more with hot water. Chocolate is a bean and the hot water brings out the chocolate cocoa flavor, just like it does with coffee.
You can also replace the liquid with brewed coffee or melted chocolate ice cream.
White Cake Mix
Egg Whites– Omitting the egg yolks from a white cake mix makes the cake fluffy and whiter. Since taking out the egg yolks also takes out the fat, add one tablespoon of butter per egg yolk that you take out. So if you take out 3 egg yolks, add 3 tablespoons of melted butter.
Clear Vanilla Extract– Add extra flavor to a white cake mix by adding 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract. Make sure it’s clear or it will effect the white of your cake.
All Boxed Cake Mixes
Melted Butter– Substitute vegetable oil with melted butter or margarine for added flavor. *Cakes already have salt in them, so I recommend using unsalted butter.
Instant Pudding-Add 1 (3.9 oz) box dry INSTANT Pudding mix. Use vanilla or the same flavor as your boxed cake mix for added richness flavor. Try adding chocolate pudding mix to a Red Velvet Cake Mix!
Sour Cream-Add 1/2 to 1 cup of sour cream in addition to the ingredients it calls for.
Yogurt– Try using 6 oz. flavored yogurt, 2 T. oil and 2/3 cup water, milk or buttermilk, add the eggs called for on the box OR use plain yogurt, 2 T. oil and 2/3 cup water, milk or buttermilk for any boxed cake mix.
Applesauce-Replace the oil with equal parts of applesauce. If the recipes calls for 1/4 cup oil, replace it with 1/4 cup applesauce for extra moistness.
For example, using two substitutions in a spice cake substitute the oil with applesauce and substitute the water with milk or buttermilk.
Mayonnaise-Add 2 Tablespoons of Mayo. It improves the texture and makes it taste more like homemade.
Jell-o Gelatin-Add flavored gelatin to your boxed cake for added flavor such as strawberry for strawberry cake.
Liquids
Milk– When a cake mix calls for water, add MILK instead. The milk adds density and fat, and makes it taste homemade.
Buttermilk-You will never go wrong with replacing all the liquids with buttermilk. Because buttermilk is thicker, you may have to add a little extra!
For example, using two substitutions in a spice cake substitute the oil with applesauce and the water with milk or buttermilk.
Coconut Milk-Replace the liquids it calls for with full fat coconut milk.
Coffee-For a chocolate cake mix or yellow cake mix, replace the liquid with brewed coffee.
Soda-To amplify the flavor replace the liquid amount with a dark soda such as coca-cola or dr. pepper. For flavored cake use flavored soda, such as orange soda in an orange pound cake.
Eggs-For a thicker, moist cake add an extra egg.
Eggs + yolks– Add 2 Extra YOLKS. This adds more fat which gives the cake extra moistness and density and will takes like it came from a bakery! If the recipe calls for 3 eggs, add 3 eggs + 2 egg yolks.
Ice Cream-Replace the liquid for melted ice cream. Use any flavor to compliment the flavor of your cake or vanilla to enhance the cakes flavor. See my Strawberry Milkshake Poke Cake.
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Items needed to bake a cake:
vintage cake stand | cake stand | glass bowls | stand mixer | hand mixer | measuring cups | spatulas | cake server
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