Cake Mix Recipe?
#259572 - 04/22/06 05:52 AM
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This may already be on the board somewhere, but searching for it finds all the wonderful things you can do with cake-mix....add-ins, that amazing sounding cake for one recipe, those sorts of things.
Does anyone know of a "recipe" of ingredients that you can combine at home, to make the equivalent of "1 box cake mix" in recipes, maybe with variations for chocolate/ vanilla/ lemon, whatever? I could probably figure out the variations myself with some trial and error, and I know it must be just mostly flour and sugar, but I'm afraid I'll leave out some key ingredient.
This cake for one recipe has gotten me pretty excited...
(Although, as a warning, Duncan Hines has changed their formulas, and now many of the mixes do include dairy....so frustrating, and so totally unnecessary...)
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here's one -- and another -- but the problem with these mixes is that they are super-high in fat.
If you want to give it a shot, I'd personally mix up only the dry ingredients and omit the fat entirely. (You can also keep the mix longer, since there aren't any fats to go rancid.) You'll need to add it in when you actually make the cake. The first cake mix recipes you'll have to calculate how much fat is actually in there, but since the second cake mix recipe only make the equivalent of one cake mix, you already know it uses 8 T margarine/3 T oil (yikes). I'd probably try 1/4 C oil + 1/3 C applesauce/fruit puree (for chocolate cakes I prefer using baby food plums).
Personally, though, if you're doing this just so you can do the "cake for one" recipe, to me it seems like it'd be just as easy to make a cake from scratch and freeze it in individual portions. The "cake for one" thing is more for the convenience factor and it kinda loses that if you have to go to all of this bother.
Don't forget to check the generic cake mixes for ingredients ... they might have changed it now, but the Wal-Mart (Great Value) brand white cake mix used to be dairy-free.
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jen
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I have also been wondering about this same thing!
Chocolate Cake Mix
6 cups flour -- 4-1/2 cups sugar -- 3-3/4 tsp baking soda --1 cup powdered milk -- 1-1/2 cup cocoa -- 3 tsp salt
Use four cups mix for one cake. To this mix add ½ cup melted margarine, 1 cup water, 2 beaten eggs, and 1 tsp vanilla.
I found this one online & I have not made this. I don't know if they make dry soy milk, or not, but I think I saw it in a health food store? I'm thinking you could reduce the Margarine to a 1/4 cup (and use soy butter or smart balance) & use 4 egg whites to make it safe or it could be safe with a 1/2 cup since it makes a whole cake.
You could leave the Cocoa out if you want white cake.
What does everyone else think?
Here's where I found it & there are other mixes there also
http://www.justpeace.org/mixes.htm
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Judy
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