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!
Would you be able to use Splenda in place of sugar?
I am not a fan of Splenda, so I cannot recommend it in any circumstance.
How many cupcakes does this make?:-)
How do you make fine sugar.
Using a blender or food processor, whirr up your regular granulated sugar until fine.
How do you make this without eggs??:(
How do you make this with out eggs??!:(
You are a life saver – this worked out great for the wedding cake I had to make this week. Thanks for sharing!
This is a great idea and similar to what I do for things like muffins and pizza dough that I make frequently. I figure that as long as I have all my ingredients out, I may as well mix up multiple batches of the dry stuff. I even went so far as to type up the rest of the instructions on my computer and printed out lots of copies that I keep in a drawer in my kitchen. Now, on “mix making day”, I simply grab the pertinent instructions and tape them to the front of the ziplock bag or jar I’m using. Have not tried this with cake yet but it will be next on my list!
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11/3/14
Hi-
I currently live in a country (Iceland) where pre-made cake mix is generally only sold in limited varieties–carrot cake and chocolate cake are the only ones I’ve found thus far, which aren’t very versatile. But I have a great recipe for a Gooey Butter Cake which calls for cake mix with pudding in the mix. (You don’t follow the box instructions when making the butter cake, but it is a base ingredient.)
So I’m wondering if I could use your basic cake mix recipe, just add a box of pudding to it, and get to the same end. Is it that easy, or do I have to adjust the measurements?
Thanks for any advice!
im pretty sure I know the answer to this question..but I want to double check.. Does one jar of mix = 1 cake ?
Yes, exactly! One jar is one cake. 🙂
thankyou!
Hi,
When you say one jar content = one cake. May I ask which round cake size exactly for example?
Thanks so so so much
Diam
I’m thinking one cake is equal to one boxed mix. What you could get from a boxed mix you can get from this recipe as well.
Hi there,
I just found your site via, the incredible chocolate covered cherry cake! I was especially intrigued by your white cake mix recipe, and have a quick question:
Do you alternate the dry with the milk/vanilla?
Thanks so much! What a great blog!