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Raise your mitt if y'all've ever used a cake mix. 🙌

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

Using merely a handful of tricks, any block mix can taste more like bootleg. For case, a homemade frosting volition take your cake to the next level. This fluffy mocha frosting recipe pairs perfectly with yellow or chocolate cake and is practically swoon-worthy.

To elevate your boxed block mix, choose whatsoever ideas on this list beneath—or combine a few!

From Bridget Edwards of Bake at 350.

Makes plenty to frost one 2-layer cake.

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Here are some of the elementary swaps and additions you can make to boxed cake mix:

Use an extra egg: Nearly boxed mixes will call for 3 eggs. Use iv for a cake that'due south richer-tasting and moister. This tip is i I use practically every time I brand a boxed cake mix.

Substitute dairy: Replace the water called for on the parcel with dairy. My favorite is buttermilk for that footling scrap of tang. Dairy adds fat and makes for a more than homemade-tasting cake.

Replace water with other liquids: If you're not going the dairy route, supercede the water with another liquid for added flavor. Employ java for a deep, dark chocolate block, or ginger ale in light and bright yellow cake. Combine with dairy to get the added fat by using 3/4 cup liquid and 1/iv cup sour foam or buttermilk.

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

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

Add extracts: A little more vanilla is never a bad thing. Boost the flavor with an actress teaspoon or and so of excerpt. Vanilla is always an excellent choice, merely any extract tin enhance a flavour. How about a teaspoon of almond excerpt 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 make the pudding.) The mix adds boosted flavor, moistness, and a denser texture.

Brand a filling: A filling in the center definitely screams (or at least politely says) "homemade!" Make a simple i by stirring together a cup of mini chocolate chips with 1/2 cup calorie-free brown carbohydrate and 1/2 cup chopped pecans. Pour 1/two of the block batter into a Bundt pan. Top with the filling mixture. Cover the filling with the remaining cake batter and bake.

Frost with a bootleg frosting: Now, I'll admit to liking canned frosting—only spread on graham crackers, not cakes. To elevate a cake mix cake, elevation with a homemade frosting. Information technology doesn't have to be fancy or time-consuming, but a homemade frosting will have your cake to the next level. Try the Fluffy Mocha Frosting above on a devil's nutrient or xanthous cake.

You know what's weird? I have a sudden peckish for cake. You also? If you lot've tried any of these tips or accept others of your own, I'd love to hear them!