Upgrade Your Boxed Cake Mix With These 7 Tasty Tips

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If you’re looking for a way to take your boxed cake mix to the next level, you’ve come to the right place. With these 7 tasty tips, you can easily upgrade your boxed cake mix and create a delicious, homemade cake that will impress your family and friends. From adding extra ingredients to changing up the baking time, these tips will help you create a cake that is sure to be a hit. So, let’s get started and upgrade your boxed cake mix today!

Upgrade Your Boxed Cake Mix With These 7 Tasty Tips

Boxed cake mix is a great way to make a delicious cake quickly and easily. But if you want to take your cake to the next level, try these 7 tasty tips to upgrade your boxed cake mix.

1. Add Extra Eggs

Adding an extra egg or two to your cake mix will give it a richer, more moist texture. Just make sure to add a little extra liquid to the mix as well.

2. Use Buttermilk Instead of Water

Swapping out the water for buttermilk will give your cake a more complex flavor and a softer texture. Just make sure to reduce the amount of liquid you add to the mix.

3. Add a Pinch of Salt

Adding a pinch of salt to your cake mix will help to bring out the sweetness and enhance the flavor. Just make sure not to add too much, as it can make your cake too salty.

4. Add Vanilla Extract

Adding a teaspoon of vanilla extract to your cake mix will give it a more complex flavor and a richer aroma. Just make sure to reduce the amount of liquid you add to the mix.

5. Add a Splash of Coffee

Adding a splash of coffee to your cake mix will give it a deeper, more intense flavor. Just make sure to reduce the amount of liquid you add to the mix.

6. Add Fruits or Nuts

Adding fruits or nuts to your cake mix will give it a unique flavor and texture. Just make sure to reduce the amount of liquid you add to the mix.

7. Use Oil Instead of Butter

Swapping out the butter for oil will give your cake a lighter texture and a more moist crumb. Just make sure to reduce the amount of liquid you add to the mix.

With these 7 tasty tips, you can easily upgrade your boxed cake mix and make a delicious cake that everyone will love. So go ahead and give them a try!

Honestly, there’s nothing wrong with a good boxed cake mix. They make consistently good cakes, and if you’re baking a cake for a crowd, relying on a boxed cake mix tends to sound a lot easier (and safer) than attempting to bake a cake from scratch. However, if you’re looking to take your boxed cake mix to the next level, there are a few simple upgrades you can make that will have your guests thinking you deserve a spot on The Great British Bake Off.

From simple swaps to easy add-ins, here are a few of our tasty tips to transform your next boxed cake mix bake. Then, for even more baking tricks, check out our list of 23 Best Baking Tips of All Time.

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Coffee and chocolate tend to go hand-in-hand—especially when it comes to cake. By adding in instant coffee or swapping water with a brewed cup of joe in your boxed cake mix recipe, you’ll end up with a richer tasting cake that seems too good to be true.

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For other boxed cake mixes—like white, yellow, funfetti, and more—skip the water again and sub in the same amount of milk instead. The milk adds some fat to the cake, helping it to create that moist cake texture that we all desire in a thick slice of cake.

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Another tip for creating an even denser cake slice is adding in sour cream or yogurt to the mix. This doesn’t sub in for any of the called for ingredients on the boxed cake mix, just simply add in a cup of sour cream or yogurt to the mixture and mix together.

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It sounds weird, but trust us—mayonnaise is the shocking secret ingredient for cake that you probably never thought to use. It creates a rich, moist cake, and we promise, it tastes nothing like mayonnaise at all! Because mayonnaise is made with oil and eggs, you can sub out the oil and eggs (or just the oil) at a one-to-one ratio. So if the boxed cake mix recipe calls for 1/3 cup of oil, use 1/3 cup of mayonnaise in the recipe.

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Want to give your cake a little pizzaz? Add in some zest! If you have any leftover lemons, limes, or oranges, zest about a tablespoon and mix it into the batter. This can also work with all kinds of cakes—lemon and lime could work well with white and yellow, and orange zest sounds divine in a chocolate cake.

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For intensely delicious flavor, sprinkle in a box of your favorite pudding mix for a cake that is unbelievably decadent. No need to prepare it, keep the mix dry! The pudding mix helps with giving the cake that dense, moist texture we always seem to be going for when baking a cake at home.

Chocolate pudding will work well with chocolate or red velvet box cake mix. White chocolate pudding and even cheesecake pudding are a little more versatile, working well with boxed cake mix flavors such as white, yellow, orange, strawberry, and carrot cake.

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Not really in the mood for baking an entire cake? Then bake some cookies instead! Using your favorite box cake mix, mix in an egg and an 8 oz. container of Cool Whip to create fluffy cookies. To make a dense cookie, mix in two eggs with 1/3 cup of oil (like vegetable or canola). Bake at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes, then devour!

Kiersten Hickman

Kiersten Hickman is a freelance health and nutrition journalist. Read more

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