Things You'll Need:
- Flour
- Oil
- Sugar and icing sugar
- Eggs
- Milk
- Vanilla or cocoa
- Baking powder and salt
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Step 1
Buy flour at a grocery store or bulk barn. Follow your recipes but you can mix some types. Flour comes in different varieties and brands including whole wheat, rye, cake flour and pastry flour.
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Step 2
Purchase flour in different sized packages. Large bags of flour are usually cheaper per ounce than smaller bags. You can also buy flour in bulk so you can purchase exactly what you need. Buy flour at wholesale groceries to get the best price.
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Step 3
Find sugar in the baking aisle of the grocery store or buy it loose in a bulk barn. You can purchase white, dark brown and golden brown sugar.
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Step 4
Purchase cocoa in a specialty shop or the coffee aisle of a grocery store if you want a chocolate flavored sheet cake.
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Step 5
Visit a market for eggs and milk. You can buy fresh white or brown farm eggs in quantities of one dozen or a half dozen. Pick from whole, 1 percent, 2 percent or soy milk.
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Step 6
Pick oil from several different kinds. You can buy canola oil, vegetable oil and corn oil from the grocery store. Oil comes in large or small containers so you purchase exactly what you need.
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Step 7
Find small quantities of baking powder, salt and vanilla at a baking shop or in the baking aisle of a grocery store. Frost your cake with icing sugar from your local grocery store. Mix it with milk or water and add vanilla or cocoa to the icing sugar for a different flavor.
