How To Make Cake Mix Denser

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Enhance your manus if you've ever used a cake mix. 🙌

Let'south agree that while we'd all prefer a homemade cake, sometimes a block mix comes in handy or is the perfect ingredient in a recipe. My two favorite examples of cake mix honey are Ree Drummond's Christmas Rum Cake and these Caramel Brownies. Those are 2 downright delicious holiday desserts fabricated with block mix.

Using only a handful of tricks, whatsoever cake mix tin can taste more similar bootleg. For instance, a bootleg frosting will accept your cake to the adjacent level. This fluffy mocha frosting recipe pairs perfectly with yellow or chocolate block and is practically swoon-worthy.

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

From Bridget Edwards of Bake at 350.

Makes enough to frost i ii-layer cake.

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Here are some of the simple swaps and additions you can make to boxed block mix:

Use an extra egg: Most boxed mixes volition call for iii eggs. Use four for a cake that's richer-tasting and moister. This tip is 1 I use practically every time I make a boxed cake mix.

Substitute dairy: Supercede the water chosen for on the package with dairy. My favorite is buttermilk for that picayune flake of tang. Dairy adds fat and makes for a more than homemade-tasting cake.

Replace water with other liquids: If you're non going the dairy road, supersede the water with another liquid for added flavor. Use coffee for a deep, night chocolate cake, or ginger ale in light and brilliant xanthous cake. Combine with dairy to go the added fatty past using three/iv cup liquid and 1/four loving cup sour foam or buttermilk.

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

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

Add extracts: A petty more vanilla is never a bad affair. Heave the flavor with an extra teaspoon or so of extract. Vanilla is e'er an excellent choice, but any excerpt tin enhance a flavor. How virtually a teaspoon of almond extract in that strawberry cake mix?

Put some pudding in the mix: Add a pocket-sized box of pudding mix in with the cake mix. (Don't brand the pudding.) The mix adds additional season, moistness, and a denser texture.

Brand a filling: A filling in the center definitely screams (or at least politely says) "homemade!" Make a simple one by stirring together a cup of mini chocolate chips with ane/2 cup light brownish carbohydrate and ane/2 cup chopped pecans. Cascade i/2 of the block batter into a Bundt pan. Acme with the filling mixture. Embrace the filling with the remaining cake batter and bake.

Frost with a homemade frosting: Now, I'll acknowledge to liking canned frosting—but spread on graham crackers, not cakes. To drag a cake mix cake, peak with a homemade frosting. It doesn't accept to be fancy or time-consuming, but a homemade frosting will take your cake to the side by side level. Effort the Fluffy Mocha Frosting above on a devil'southward food or yellow block.

You know what'due south weird? I have a sudden craving for cake. You too? If you've tried whatever of these tips or accept others of your own, I'd love to hear them!