Yellow Cake Mix to Chocolate cake mix

 

Confessions of a Baking Queen

1 - 15.25oz Box of Yellow Cake Mix (I didnt have chocolate)
1-3.9oz Box of Dry Vanilla Pudding Mix (I didnt have chocolate)
1/2 c Cocoa Powder
4 Large Eggs, at room temperature
6oz (¾ Cup) Vegetable Oil
6oz (¾ Cup) Sour Cream (or mayo or plain yogurt)
4oz (½ Cup) Buttermilk
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
4oz (½ Cup) Hot Coffee (I didnt have it)
85 grams (½ Cups) Mini Chocolate Chips, optional

1. Preheat your oven to 350F/180C and spray two 8-inch or 9-inch round cake pans with non-stick baking spray, my preferences are Bakers Joy or Pam for Baking. Set the pans aside.
2. In a large bowl mix together everything except the hot coffee and mini chocolate chips. Mix until fully combined, you want to make sure you mix well enough that there are no traces of egg left behind but you don't want to overmix the batter. Then mix in the hot coffee, it will thin the batter out then fold in the chocolate chips.
3. Pour the cake batter evenly between the two prepared pans and bake. For 8-inch cakes I found they baked in the 25-30 minute mark as opposed to the longer times the cake box suggested.  Let the cake pans cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes before inverting the cake out directly onto a wire rack to cool completely. Then frost with your favorite frosting.

He wanted cherry icing served on it with maraschino cherries on top for decoration

White Cake Mix to Pumpkin Cake

 Like Mother Like Daughter

Makes 24 cupcakes

• 1 box yellow cake mix
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1/4 cup buttermilk, or milk, or sour cream
• 4 large eggs
• 15 oz  pumpkin pie filling
• 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 3 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 t ginger
• 2 t allspice
• 1 t nutmeg
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• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Mix together the cake mix, sugar, oil, water, eggs, pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, and cinnamon.
• Stir for 2 minutes until the batter is super smooth.
• Pour the batter into a greased cake pan and bake until a toothpick comes out mostly clean.
• For cupcakes 15-18min, a 9x13 pan, bake for 25-30 minutes, or10inch bundt cake, bake for 30-40 minutes
• Allow the cake to cool for 10 minutes then remove from the pan to a cooling rack to cool completely.
• Top with powdered sugar, vanilla icing, or cream cheese frosting.

peach cobbler with cake mix

Give Recipe

• 4 cups fresh peaches, peeled and sliced (or canned peaches)
• 1 16.25 oz (460g) cake mix, yellow or white
• 1 stick (113g) butter, melted
• ½ cup chopped almonds (any nut work fine)

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Spray a pan then Place the peach slices to the bottom of a 9×13” pan.
3. Pour the cake mix into a meidum bowl. Melt the butter in a sauce pan and add it into the bowl. Stir until combined. Sprinkle evenly over the peaches.
4. Top it with chopped almonds and bake for 45 minutes or until golden brown.
5. Let it cool for 10-15 minutes and serve it warm with a dollop of vanilla ice cream and fresh peach slices.

Super delicious and very easy to make. next time I'd add some sugar and cornstarch to the peaches first and mix it up, could follow this recipe  but leave the peaches in slices not in chunks.

Cake mix additions

from lauren hedin

Add to any cake mix

some people have said use 4 eggs instead of 3
3 oz of dry pudding mix (vanilla or chocolate)
1 c sour cream, any type of milk substitute(almond, coconut), buttermilk or one time I used plain yogurt
Few tablespoons of mayonnaise

3 T flour

substitute some melted butter in place of oil (more flavor)

Add to the powder cake mix.

OTHER IDEAS-

If its a citrus cake- add lemon/lime zest, OJ instead of water

Others have said add some type of cola or carbonated soda

White Cake mix additions

1.  White Cake mix to peppermint cake
Betty Crocker

1

box Betty Crocker™ SuperMoist™ white cake mix

Water, vegetable oil and egg whites called for on cake mix box

1/2

teaspoon red food color

1/2

teaspoon peppermint extract

White Icing

1

cup powdered sugar

1

tablespoon milk or water

1/2

teaspoon vanilla, if desired

Decoration

Crushed candy canes or crushed hard peppermint candies, if desired

• 1. Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Generously grease rectangular pan. Make cake batter as directed on box. Pour about 2 cups batter into pan. In small bowl, pour about 3/4 cup batter; stir in food color and peppermint extract. Carefully pour pink batter over white batter in pan and then swirl the two colors together with a knife.
• 2 Bake and cool cake as directed on box.
• 3 In small bowl, mix white icing ingredients. If necessary, stir in additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, until smooth and spreadable. Spread over cake. Sprinkle crushed candy on top. Store loosely covered.

2.  White Cake mix to Chocolate cake mix

1 cake mix 

3 eggs

1and1/4 c milk

1/4c oil

1/2 c sour cream or mayo (i've tried both and very successful()

1 pudding package (keep it in powder form)

1/4-1/2c cocoa powder 

Chocolate chips

Oven 350. Mix eggs, water, oil, pudding and cocoa till smooth.  Then add cake mix.  Spray the baking pan add the cake mix. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top, they will sink down as it cooks.  Last 5 min add two handfuls of chips to top, they will stay on the top.  Cook 24min, let cool.

4/01/24

MAde a white cake mix and turned it into a most delicious chocolate cake 

Two options for frosting:

1. Melt chocolate chips in microwave with a little oil/butter and pour that on top of a cooled cake.  It will harden and be delicious

2. Chocolate sauce

• 4 tablespoons (60g) virgin coconut oil
• 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon (52g) carob/cocoa powder. (For a sauce, decrease to 1/4 cup)
• 2-4T honey

Melt the coconut oil and honey  in the microwave. My honey was old and granulized, but the micro smoothed it out. Add the cocoa. Stir stir stir! Stir until it gets thick like Artisana Cacao Bliss.

3.Banana-Cinnamon Cake

 Betty Crocker

1

box Betty Crocker™ SuperMoist™ yellow cake mix

1/2

cup water 

1

cup mashed very ripe bananas (2 medium)

1/2

cup butter or margarine, softened

2

teaspoons ground cinnamon

3

eggs

1/2

cup chopped walnuts

Cinnamon Glaze

1/2

cup Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy cream cheese frosting

2

to 3 teaspoons milk 

1/4

teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions

• 1 Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Grease and lightly flour 12-cup fluted tube cake pan, or spray with cooking spray.
• 2 In large bowl, beat cake mix, water, bananas, butter, cinnamon and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, then on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Stir in walnuts. Pour into pan.
• 3 Bake 47 to 57 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Turn pan upside down onto cooling rack or heatproof serving plate; remove pan. Cool completely, about 2 hours. In small bowl, stir glaze ingredients until thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle over cake. Store loosely covered.

Yellow cake mix to spice cake mix

Original cake recipe- Pilsbury

CAKE-

1 c water

1 egg

1/4c flax

1/2c applesauce

1 and ½ t cinnamon

½ t allspice (or nutmeg and 1/4t cloves)

1/4t ginger

1 (1 lb. 2.25-oz.) pkg. yellow cake mix

1/2c raisins

GLAZE-  Southern Food

1/4 cup butter
2 cups powdered sugar
2 to 4 tablespoons milk or hot water
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preheat oven 350 

Mix- water, egg, flax, applesauce, cinnamon, allspice, and ginger.  Let sit 5 min to help flax absorb water.  Then mix in the cake mix and raisins

I baked in two pans, spray both.  #1 pan a small bundt cake 350 for 30 min and #2 pan a pie pan bake for 23-26min

Glaze for the top of the COOLED cake.  If you add the glaze to a hot cake it will melt.

1. In microwave melt butter in a bowl. Then add powder sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, lemon juice, and vanilla extract in medium bowl and mix until fully incorporated. If glaze is not runny enough, add more milk. You will want glaze to be thick enough to hold it\'s \"drip\" on the cake, but runny enough to pour
2. Using a skewer, poke deep holes all over the top of the cake. Brush the glaze all over the cake in several layers until thickly glazed. Drizzle any remaining glaze on top and let it set before serving..

Glaze variations-

• 1.  For a richer and creamier glaze or frosting, use heavy cream in place of the milk or water.
• 2.  For a citrus glaze, substitute orange or lemon juice for the milk or water and vanilla and add about 1/2 teaspoon of finely grated zest.
• 3.  For a chocolate glaze, increase the butter to 6 tablespoons and melt with 2 ounces of unsweetened chocolate. Reduce the vanilla to 1 teaspoon.
• 4.  For a butter-rum glaze, add 1 1/2 teaspoons of rum flavoring and omit the vanilla.
• If glazing a spice cake or cinnamon rolls, sprinkle the glaze with cinnamon-sugar while it's still soft.

To make a cake mix into a cookie

I have a Western Family fudge cake mix, recipe for making cookies from a cake box

1 chocolate cake mix
1/2c butter, softened
2 large eggs
2 T oil
1 t vanilla
1 1/2c chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350.
In large bowl combine cake mix, butter, eggs, oil, and vanilla, mix. Fold in choco chips.
Drop spoonfulls of batter on to ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 8-10min.

Makes 2 dozen

Coconut Cream Poke Cake

Country Cook

1 (18 oz) box of white cake mix
all ingredients to make the cake (eggs, oil, milk)
1 can of sweetened condensed and/or cream of coconut
1 (8oz) whipped cream (made vanilla pudding for the top instead of whip cream)
1 (8 oz) sweetened coconut

Mix and cook the white cake mix, as the box describes.

When the cake is still warm i mixed half sweetened condensed milk and coconut milk  (b/c that is all I had of each).

Poke holes in the warm cake and pour the condensed and coconut milk. Let it cool in freezer or fridge.
Toast the coconut on the stove top 5 min till light brown or in oven (350 for 5-10min).

After the cake is cooled- Mix the vanilla pudding with milk and pour on top of the cake.