Tried and True Recipes: white cake mix

Monday, October 30, 2023

White Cake Mix to Pumpkin Cake

Like Mother Like Daughter

Makes 24 cupcakes

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.

Saturday, February 11, 2017

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.