UPDATE: Here is Homemade Yellow Cake Mix in a Jar!
I gotta be honest with you.
Most of the time I am running around like a crazy woman. I am usually pretty scatterbrained and frantically trying to get to everything that needs to be done in a day.
So I decided that I needed to simplify my baking a bit. Remove some steps. But NEVER sacrifice quality and taste!!
Which leads me to today’s post. I LOVE that I get to share this with you and I hope that you will try it too!
Did you know you can make your own homemade white cake mix?
You can have high quality, delicious tasting cake with the ease and convenience of a box mix.
And it just takes moments to do!
Homemade Cake Mix
Just assemble your dry ingredients as well as the sugar. (full recipe below)
Dry Ingredients:
2 3/4 cup flour
1 3/4 cups SUPER fine sugar (you can buy this or make it)
2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
(I will post the rest of the recipe I am using below)
Sift together all ingredients and place in a mason jar or your chosen storage container.
And voila! You have your own cake mix! (This recipe totaled about 4 1/2 cups of dry ingredients, so I used an eight-cup mason jar)
You will, of course, need to add the wet ingredients when you are ready to make your cake.
So I just write what I need to add on a little reminder card.
And don’t forget the date! I would probably try and use this within three months. But around here, I usually use at least one jar a week!
Don’t forget the instructions! (I am not saying that from experience or anything…) And any other little annoying notes you might want to write yourself.
I sorta love words like moist and delicious and yum when describing cake. I can’t help myself.
Feel free to do this with chocolate cake or yellow cake or any cake that suits your fancy.
Can’t wait to show you the cake I am making with this jar! 🙂
Homemade White Cake Mix (Replace the Box!)
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
- 2 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 3/4 cups SUPER fine sugar you can buy this or make it
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
Wet Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter
- 5 egg whites room temperature
- 1 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°F. Prepare two 8-inch round cake pans or a 9x13 pan.
- In a large bowl using a hand-held mixer (or stand mixer) cream butter until lighter in color and creamier. (1-2 minutes.)
- Add in egg whites and mix on low until incorporated.
- Add in milk, vanilla, and almond extract. Mix until just combined.
- Add in all dry ingredients and stir by hand until incorporated.
- Pour batter into prepared pans and bake for 18-22 minutes for round pans. If using the 9x13 pan start checking at 22 minutes. Even oven is different! When an inserted toothpick is removed with a few crumbs but no wet batter, the cake is done.
Did you make this recipe?
Thank you for making my recipe! You took pictures, right? Well go ahead and post them on Instagram! Be sure to mention me @iambaker and use the hashtag #YouAreBaker.
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UPDATED: This is the cake I made with this jar… Chocolate Covered Cherry Oreo Cake!
Hi Amanda Thanks for the recipe m loving it
can u please answer my question 🙂
I wanna make this cake but not in white colour i wanna make in red colour and m confuse how much i need to add wilton red red gel paste colour in it or local powder food colour?
Can u plaese answer me in 1-2 day bcz my b day is coming on this weekend and i wanna make a cake in red colour (m not big fan of red velvet that’s y m making white cake but in red colour).
Buy Tc
Have a great day!
Hi Sana… I would start with 1-2 drops of red coloring and move from their. It will just depend on what color you are trying to achieve. Happy Birthday!
OMG I just used this recipe to make cake pops. This is the BEST vanilla cake I’ve ever made. It’s perfect for the cake pop machine, use about 1.5 teaspoons in each well and cook for 4 mins and 30 secs. They are delicious! I used a teensy bit more almond extract than the recipe called for and it turned out great! Thanks!
Wow, this looks so awesome! I’m definitely going to try this out. You mentioned that this could be used for different variations, but how much of what would you need to add to make this a chocolate or red velvet or lemon, etc cake? Any suggestions?
Amazing idea!
Can you substitute this for a cake mix in recipes that call for a white cake mix?
I love this idea! I use cake mixes all the time, but I have a little bit of an issue with the whole “what are these weird chemicals doing in it?” This is so awesome. Just a question, though: How do you make a yellow cake mix? How does it differ from a white cake mix?
Great idea! This would also make a great gift during the holidays (teachers, neighbors, etc)
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Did 3 huge batches of chocolate chip cookie mix a couple of weeks ago. Just need to add eggs and vanilla and they were fabulous. I love that I can just do a half a batch also. Definitely doing Brownies and cake mix next!
This looks so easy! Would be a great gift for friends who stubbornly still use box mix even after having a food blogger for a friend, who inundates them with easy baking from scratch recipes!