How to Change a Box of Yellow Cake Mix to Chocolate

Make a chocolate cake from a yellow cake mix.

You're craving chocolate cake, but the only thing in your cupboard is a box of yellow cake mix. You don't have to give up. Your yellow cake mix can form the basis for a variety of other cake flavors, including chocolate. Cocoa adds chocolate flavor without changing the recipe enough that other ingredients need to be adjusted.

Things You'll Need

• Bowl
• Cocoa
• Measuring spoons
• Fork
• Eggs
• Oil
• Greased cake pans

Instructions

1. Open the box of cake mix and dump it into a mixing bowl. Measure 4 tbsp. of baking cocoa and mix it in with a fork. If you want a more intense chocolate flavor, use 5 tbsp. instead of four.

2. Add the eggs, water and oil called for in the directions on your cake mix box. Mix all of the ingredients together with a fork or with a mixer until the batter is smooth.

3. Transfer the batter to greased cake pans and bake according to the package directions.

Tips & Warnings

• Frost your finished cake with chocolate buttercream frosting made with butter, powdered sugar and cocoa.

References

• Baking 911: Cake Mixes
• The Cake Mix Doctor; Ann Byrn; 1999