What To Make With A Yellow Cake Mix

Bake at 350/The Pioneer Adult female

Heighten your hand if you've always used a cake mix. 🙌

Let'due south agree that while we'd all prefer a homemade cake, sometimes a cake mix comes in handy or is the perfect ingredient in a recipe. My two favorite examples of cake mix love are Ree Drummond's Christmas Rum Cake and these Caramel Brownies. Those are two downright succulent holiday desserts made with cake mix.

Using just a handful of tricks, whatever cake mix can sense of taste more than like homemade. For case, a homemade frosting will take your cake to the next level. This fluffy mocha frosting recipe pairs perfectly with yellow or chocolate cake and is practically swoon-worthy.

To elevate your boxed cake mix, choose any ideas on this listing below—or combine a few!

From Bridget Edwards of Broil at 350.

Makes enough to frost one two-layer cake.

Broil at 350/The Pioneer Woman

Here are some of the simple swaps and additions y'all tin can make to boxed cake mix:

Use an extra egg: Most boxed mixes will call for three eggs. Employ iv for a cake that'southward richer-tasting and moister. This tip is one I use practically every time I make a boxed block mix.

Substitute dairy: Supplant the water called for on the package with dairy. My favorite is buttermilk for that little bit of tang. Dairy adds fat and makes for a more than homemade-tasting cake.

Replace water with other liquids: If you're not going the dairy route, replace the h2o with another liquid for added flavor. Use java for a deep, nighttime chocolate block, or ginger ale in lite and bright yellow block. Combine with dairy to become the added fat by using three/4 cup liquid and 1/4 cup sour cream or buttermilk.

Add a mix-in: Mix-ins always make a cake special and taste more like homemade. A combo I dearest is cream of coconut plus shredded coconut. Fold the mix-in into the batter last, adding up to one cup.

Get all-citrus: Make a cake with a citrus punch, replacing the water with juice and calculation lots of zest. Effort orange, lemon, or lemon-lime. Add lemon and lime zest to a cake made with lemon-lime soda for the liquid.

Add extracts: A little more than vanilla is never a bad affair. Boost the flavour with an extra teaspoon or and then of extract. Vanilla is ever an excellent pick, merely whatsoever extract tin enhance a flavor. How nigh a teaspoon of almond extract in that strawberry cake mix?

Put some pudding in the mix: Add a small-scale box of pudding mix in with the cake mix. (Don't make the pudding.) The mix adds additional flavor, moistness, and a denser texture.

Make a filling: A filling in the center definitely screams (or at to the lowest degree politely says) "homemade!" Make a elementary one by stirring together a cup of mini chocolate chips with one/2 loving cup light brown carbohydrate and 1/2 cup chopped pecans. Cascade 1/2 of the cake batter into a Bundt pan. Top with the filling mixture. Cover the filling with the remaining cake concoction and bake.

Frost with a bootleg frosting: Now, I'll admit to liking canned frosting—but spread on graham crackers, not cakes. To elevate a cake mix cake, tiptop with a homemade frosting. It doesn't take to exist fancy or fourth dimension-consuming, but a homemade frosting will take your cake to the next level. Try the Fluffy Mocha Frosting to a higher place on a devil'due south food or yellow cake.

You lot know what'southward weird? I have a sudden craving for block. Y'all too? If you lot've tried any of these tips or have others of your own, I'd love to hear them!