How to Make a Box Cake Taste Like Homemade
Although box cake mixes provide quick solutions for busy cooks, nothing quite compares to the taste of a homemade cake. If you're short on time but desire the taste of a homemade cake, customizing a box cake to fit your needs might be your best solution. Experimenting with different flavor combinations can help you create a masterpiece. Does this Spark an idea?
Other People Are Reading
Things You'll Need
- Box cake
- Homemade frosting
- Fondants
- Glazes
- Fresh fruit
- Chocolate or candy chips
- Coconut
- Pudding
- Buttermilk or heavy cream
Instructions
-
-
1
Think outside the box. Realize that the picture on the cake mix box is just a suggestion for the final appearance. The same is true for the ingredient list and the baking instructions. Creating a homemade taste involves using your creativity to accentuate the basic cake mix recipe.
-
2
Ice the cake with homemade frosting. Adding freshly whipped butter cream frosting to a box cake can instantly upgrade its appearance and flavor. Experiment with fondants and glazes.
-
-
3
Mix fresh ingredients into the batter. Crushed fruit, grated coconut and candy chips can add flavor and appeal to a box cake. Since basic box cakes don't contain stir-in ingredients, using them in a box cake can help you fool a crowd into mistaking the cake for homemade.
-
4
Stir prepared pudding into the cake batter to create light, fluffy slices that rival the best homemade cakes.
-
5
Add intricate embellishments to the finished cake. Since many people simply follow the basic baking and decorating instructions for their box cakes, the cakes end up tasting and looking "familiar." Jazzing up a box cake with fancy piping designs or powdered sugar patterns can give it added appeal and taste.
-
6
Make substitutions for the standard ingredients. For example, using buttermilk or heavy cream instead of water can create a thicker finished product. Switching out oil for butter can make a cake reminiscent of the "good old days."
-
1
Tips & Warnings
Homemade cakes don't have to feature a standard number of layers. Splitting the cake mix into more than two layers can make it cook more evenly and resemble an old-fashioned homemade cake.
