Best Homemade Yellow Cake Mix

How to Make Homemade Cake Mix

THIS is how to make cake mix y’all! Once you get this down you can make a ton of different boxed cake mix recipes. We sure do make a lot of boxed cake mix recipes here on The Typical Mom blog.

• Our favorite are easy dump cake recipes that always use 1 box, any flavor, but yellow works for them all.
• If you’re into batch cooking you may want to make a BIG serving of this, separate it into baggies and you’ll be set for some serious baking.

How do I Make Yellow Cake Mix?

You really only need a few ingredients. Once you make a batch you’ll be surprised just how easy a box of yellow cake mix is to throw together. You may never buy it again after this I tell you!!

1. All purpose flour
2. Baking powder and salt
3. Sugar

What does Yellow Cake Mix Contain?

That’s it y’all!! I know, crazy right?? What you’ll need later on to mix together with your dry mix in order to make it into batter is:

• Butter
• Oil
• Vanilla
• Eggs
• Milk

So basically all the wet ingredients you’d add later. Sounds about right. I mean you may be able to simplify it more using dry milk and eggs too but it tastes better just bagging the basics and adding what you need later.

How to Make Duncan Hines Yellow Cake Mix Recipe

Of course you’ll want 2 round cake pans or a muffin tin is typically what we like using best around here. Bake at 350 degrees and cool completely before frosting. Done!! To make it over the top you can add fruit to like our cake mix pineapple upside down cake.

• Why do we love cute cupcakes? OH let me count the ways y’all.
  • They cook faster
  • Easier to grab and go for a quick treat
  • Kids can frost them themselves and decorate however they like
  • The outside doesn’t get more overdone compared to the perfect middle the way a whole cake does
  • We’ve even gone so far to make cupcakes in a jar for a party that were a real hit!

You don’t even really need a stand mixer to make it light and fluffy. A whisk is what I use so I don’t dirty more than I need to. In less than 15 minutes you could make several batches, bag or use mason jars to store.

Homemade Yellow Butter Cake Mix

1. In a large bowl whisk all the dry ingredients together. Bag and add a label of what needs to be added to it.
2. When you’re ready to bake, add: 1/2 c butter softened, or 1/2 c vegetable oil + 1 tsp vanilla + 3 eggs + 1 1/4 c milk
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In 2 greased and floured rounds bake for 20-25 minutes Cupcakes take 15-18 minutes.

If you only want to make 6 cupcakes you can do that too. This recipe calls for a smaller amount of mix so you can make a small batch vs. an entire box.

Things to make with cake mix

There are tons of other things you can make with this stuff way beyond just what you’d normally think of. We use it to make this crinkle cookie recipe that’s fun especially during the holidays.

• Our 4 ingredient banana bread actually uses spice but you could easily use this yellow version or white cake mix too!
• Wanna make some cake mix donuts? OH yes you can my friends!
• And don’t stop there! THIS is how to make brownies out of cake mix too. Oh yes, and we used strawberry to make things really fun.

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Can you keep cake mix in the fridge?

This is in case you’ve prepared it with the wet ingredients so now you have batter. You only use half of it and wondering what to do with the rest. You can keep it for up to 24 hours but beyond that it will dry out and not be good.

• It is better to just make and use what you want out of the homemade yellow cake mix you made here.
• Then store the rest into freezer bags measured out in one batch at a time.
• OR use mason jars so you can stack them in a tidier fashion if you want to organize your pantry.

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