Lemon Box Cake Mix Hacks

I will highlight a few delicious and easy hacks that will make your box cake mix even more amazing.

Lemon box cake mix hacks.

The flavor combos are endless but here are some of my favorites. Add a 1 4 cup of butter 1 2 cup of flour and a teaspoon of baking powder. Jillee at one good thing adds six ounces of lemon yogurt to of a cup of buttermilk to make up the liquid portion of a delicious lemon cake made with yellow white or even spice cake mix. Simply add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract to one box of cake mix.

If you used mostly lemon juice use two teaspoons of pure vanilla extract. The coffee will deepen the flavor while the hot liquid will help the chocolate bloom. No one has to know that your fancy cake is actually from a box. There is no shame in playing the boxed mix game.

Poke cakes are an easy and creative way to elevate your boxed cake mix. Take a few minutes and make your own buttercream to give your cake a bit of sophistication. Consider using lemon lime soda for part of the required liquid. Those box cake mixes are good for more than just a plain yellow cake.

Milk makes a denser cake. And please use real vanilla extract you can even learn to make your own vanilla extract. Maybe you want to jazz up that box mix so no one knows your cake was really made by betty crocker. If you re baking a chocolate cake try swapping the water for hot coffee.

Substitute milk and or lemon juice for water. Yogurt can also add some surprising zing as well as texture to your cake mix batter. Sour cream was another of my grandmother s kitchen tricks. If you re stuck in a boxed mix rut there are baking hacks to making your cake taste.

This is probably my favorite box cake mix hack. They re easy quick and nostalgia makes them crowd favorites. Using whole milk instead of water with a 1 to 1 substitution in the recipe will result in a richer denser cake that tastes homemade. The same goes for boxed brownies.

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