How to Substitute a Box White Cake Mix for Scratch Cake Ingredients

You can use boxed white cake mix to make many elegant desserts.

White cake is a base for many delectable desserts, such as cobblers, fruit crisps, pound cakes and flavored white cakes. If you happen to have a make-from-scratch white cake recipe that you would like to simplify, you can substitute a box cake mix for the scratch ingredients, as long as you make a few other modifications to the recipe as well. You can even make the box cake mix moister than the scratch version by adding one simple ingredient. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Things You'll Need

• White cake mix
• Egg whites
• Vegetable oil
• Milk

Instructions

1. Omit the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, flavor extracts and butter from the scratch recipe.

2. Replace the number of eggs called for in the scratch recipe with the number of eggs called for on the back of the cake mix box. Omit the egg yolks to keep the color of your cake pure white and to make it fluffier than a yellow cake.

3. Replace the amount of milk, oil or other liquids called for in the scratch recipe with the amount called for on the back of the cake mix box. If any of these ingredients are not in the scratch recipe, add the amounts of them that the box cake mix requires.

4. Add all additional ingredients that are called for in the scratch recipe.

5. Add the cake mix when the scratch recipe instructs you to add the flour and other dry ingredients. Add the egg whites and all liquids in the order in which they are called for in the scratch recipe.

6. Bake the cake at the temperature, and for the time, called for on the cake mix box.

Tips & Warnings

• If jellies, fruits or other ingredients high in moisture are used in the recipe you are making, you may need to bake the cake longer than the time specified on the cake mix box. Stick a toothpick in the center of the cake to check whether it's done. The toothpick will come out clean when it's done.

• Although your recipe may not call for it, if you want to make the box cake mix even moister than the scratch version, add a package of white vanilla pudding mix in addition to all of the other ingredients without making any other changes. Be sure to use white pudding mix. French vanilla pudding is usually white but avoid yellow vanilla pudding, if you want to retain the cake's white color.

References

• Food Network: Blueberry Lattice Cake
• All Recipes.com: Heavenly White Cake

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
• CDKitchen: Cakes Using White Cake Mix Recipes