1 Box Of Cake Mix Makes How Many Cake Pops

Take your box cake mix to the next level with this easy recipe! A few simple additionsmake it extra moist and delicious.

Alright, *almost* scratch cake is a bit of a stretch. It’s mostly a box cake with stuff added in to make it even better.

Some bakers scoff at box mixes, think it’s sacrilege and only bake from scratch. I’m a whatever-works-for-you kinda baker and sometimes it’s just easier to whip out a box.

The Best Boxed Cake Mix

Adding a few simple ingredients makes a world of difference. Trust me you will never go back to a plain old box cake mix ever again!

Making this cake is just as simple as any box mix, just with a couple of other ingredients. To make it all you need to do is:

This recipe works great for two 8″ cake pans or three 6″ pans. It can be scaled up for larger pans though too. I use this site as a guideline when I’m scaling recipes up or down.

Box Cake Mix Recipes That Taste Homemade

I like to use Homemade Cake Release on my pans and line them with parchment to make sure the cakes come out perfect every time.

I also use Baking Strips around the sides of my cake pans to make sure the cakes bake perfectly flat and don’t require any trimming (no wasted cake scraps!).

If you’d like to make your cake extra moist (or if you’re worried you’ve over baked it) you can add some Simple Syrup to the cooled cake layers. I recommend trimming a bit of the top crust first so the syrup really soaks into the cakes.

Recipes From Box Cake Mix

These days I mostly bake from scratch, but I used to use this recipe all the time when I was focussing on cake decorating. It bakes up a very sturdy and delicious cake!

I’ve yet to recreate the delicious flavour and texture of a classic vanilla box mix cake though. My Vanilla Cake recipe comes close, but it’s not quite the same. It is delicious though too, so you should try it if you haven’t!

I really like this recipe because it makes the box mixes a little more dense and super moist. This recipe is GREAT for a cake that will be decorated, stacked, etc. as the cakes have really good structural integrity.

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*I use French Vanilla, but you can use any yellow/white cake mix for this. I haven't tried with other kinds, but I imagine it would yield similar, delicious results.

Calories: 338 kcal Carbohydrates: 60 g Protein: 4 g Fat: 8 g Saturated Fat: 5 g Cholesterol: 56 mg Sodium: 430 mg Potassium: 82 mg Sugar: 35 g Vitamin A: 185 IU Vitamin C: 0.2 mg Calcium: 124 mg Iron: 1.6 mg

The nutritional information and metric conversions are calculated automatically. I cannot guarantee the accuracy of this data. If this is important to you, please verify with your favorite nutrition calculator and/or metric conversion tool.Over the years, as cake mixes have gotten smaller and prices have gotten bigger, I've gotten tons of question on this topic. As someone who bakes primarily with doctored cake mixes, I thought it would be great to share my thoughts on Smaller Cake Mixes & How to Adjust Cake Mix Recipes.

How To Make Box Cake Mix Taste Homemade

I have a question for you. Do you bake with cake mixes? If so, have you noticed that companies are putting out smaller cake mixes? At first it was Duncan Hines and now Pillsbury. I rarely buy Betty Crocker... I bet they're smaller too.

If you've been hanging around here on Rose Bakes for more than 5 minutes, you know that almost all of my cake recipes start with a cake mix.

This is not something that bothers me at all... I admire those who bake totally from scratch, but the recipes I use work out great for tiered and carved cakes, they're mostly easy to put together and my customers are always thrilled with the results... so why not?

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But lately, I've been having a bit of trouble. You see, I'm a die-hard Pillsbury fan. With the exception of my favorite chocolate cake, I always recommend Pillsbury mixes for my recipes. But I do keep other brands on hand here and there and they've

However, awhile back, they changed up their mixes. At the very least, the amount of mix in the box is smaller (now 15.25 oz., down from 18.25 oz). [I also suspect that they've changed up their formula somehow because the cakes don't always work out as wonderfully as they did in the past.]

However, despite the changes, I'm choosing to stick with Pillsbury for my baking, so I needed to find a solution for this change.

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So thought I'd share what I decided to do to adjust my cake mix slightly to keep my batter (pretty much) the same quantity and texture as before.

To do that, I calculate how many cups of batter I need (as usual), then I divide by 5 (I have always used that estimate - 5 cups of batter per cake mix recipe) and thatis the number of boxes I used to buy. However, now I buy one extra box of Pillsbury cake mix for every 5 boxes I'd normally buy so I'll have the extra 3 oz.

Then I use my simple kitchen scale to measure out an extra 3 ounces of cake mix and add it to each batch that I do... that way I'm getting the same quantity of batter. So far, this is working for me!

Box Cake Mix Hacks

Is this a pain? Yes! But it's easier than other suggestions I've seen. Since most of my cakes are chocolate and vanilla, I keep an open bag set aside just for measuring out the extra 3 oz. of mix.

I put a food clippy thing on it when I'm not baking and if I happen to have a white and a yellow or butter, I write on the bag with a marker so I don't mix them up!

If you don't like that solution, here's another for ya! The fantastic Anne Byrn (known for her wonderful The Cake Mix Doctor cookbooks) suggests adding flour to the cake mixes. She gives different methods of doing this including by weight or measuring with a tablespoon or measuring cup.

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For me, I once measured the extra cake mix and 3 ounces of cake mix is approximately half a cup. Just for kicks one day, I substituted ½ cup of all-purpose flour instead of extra cake mix and that also worked beautifully!

Anyway, here are links to my most common and most used cake-mix recipes for tiered and carved cakes ... I haven't updated them all with this info, but I hope to soon!

So, do you have any questions? Have you had any problems with the smaller mixes? Had you even noticed? If so, I'd love to hear other fixes!! Please leave any thoughts or questions in the comments!!

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Rose Atwater is the founder and cake decorator behind Rose Bakes. She is baker, cake decorator, author, wife to Richy and homeschooling mommy to 6 wonderful kiddos! Her work has been featured in American Cake Decorating Magazine, Cakes Decor, Pretty Witty Cakes Magazine, Huffington Post and Cake Geek Magazine. Learn more here...