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!
Thank you for sharing!!!! What a great idea!
Looks great! I’m not a cake mix person at all! Thanks
It’s the perfect gift!
How do you make a yellow cake? What makes a yellow cake yellow? It’s my husband’s favorite …
What a nice idea. Are you using cake flour in your mix recipe?
What a great idea! Can’t wait to try this out!
U never seize to amaze me Amanda!!! U alway’s come up with such great idea’s!!! I have no imagination. I can look at something and create it, but cannot think of idea’s on my own…Thank u!!!I luv it~~~
What an awesome idea! The possibilities are endless with this jar of goodness.
My life is really time short but I love to bake and I have often gathered up all the dry ingredients of a recipe and tossed it all into a labelled zip loc bag. That done all I have to do is sift the dry mix and deal with the wet ingredients on baking day.
I like the jar idea better though. It’s so much prettier. I usually have about five different mixes ready to go at any one time.
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