sometimes life happens and you need a box cake mix now box cakes taste well like box cakes
nice but not necessarily homemade but not to worry because today we are going to be going through
six hacks that will make your box cake taste better than even a bakery one let's do this
so let's get straight into hack one replace water with milk or buttermilk because dairy
has a higher fat percentage than water it's going to make your cake more rich and moist hack two
add an extra egg by adding an extra egg it's going to add a richer flavor to your cake
and because it's an emulsifier it means that you can add more liquid to the cake without you know
resulting in a gooey mess which leads us into hack three add extra melted butter or oil so usually a
box cake mix will ask for either butter or oil if it says to add butter then add an extra quarter
cup of oil or if it says to add oil then add an extra quarter cup of melted butter if the box cake
mix doesn't say to add either of these then add in an extra quarter cup of either option this is
going to add extra moistness and flavor to your cake hack four add extra richness to your cake
so to do this you can add an extra quarter cup of yogurt sour cream cream cheese or mayonnaise
the high fat content as well as acidity helps to break down gluten in your cake
giving you a more tender and soft crumb hack five add in a small packet of instant pudding mix
now adding an instant pudding mix is going to add extra flavor and softness to your cake
and you want to make sure that you're using the right kind of flavor combo so
for example if you're making a vanilla box mix then you want to add a complementary flavor to
that so let's say a vanilla pudding mix hack six add extra flavoring so you can add extra vanilla
extract or essence some instant coffee powder spices like cinnamon or nutmeg lemon rind orange
juice whatever you want really just make sure that the flavors complement each other now the
first three hacks which are replacing water with milk or buttermilk adding an extra egg and adding
in extra melted butter or oil are hacks i will almost always use together when making a cake mix
and then the final three hacks i kind of pick and choose and improvise based on what i have at home
so to demonstrate we are going to amp up a cake mix right now so today i'm using this
edmonds vanilla cake mix and the instructions say to add in one egg and one cup of water
so first up i'm going to preheat my oven to 140 degrees celsius as stated on the package
next i'm greasing an eight inch cake tin with some homemade cake release this stuff is amazing i will
post a link on how to make it below so to start off i'm placing the cake mix into a bowl then i'm
going to add in two eggs so one extra egg compared to what it says on the package next i'm adding in
one cup of milk to replace the one cup of water and then i'm adding in my extra ingredients so
to start off i'm adding in a quarter cup of melted butter and then i had three quarters of a packet
of instant vanilla pudding so i put that in to add extra richness and flavor i also had sour cream at
home but because i used the instant pudding i didn't add that in now i also added a tiny bit
of vanilla but if you're using a pudding mix you don't really need to add that extra flavor
i don't really know why i put it in but i guess a bit of extra vanilla won't hurt and now i'm just
mixing on a low speed to combine everything and then turning up the speed and mixing for a further
three minutes as stated on the package once that's all done i'm pouring the batter into my prepared
cake tin and giving it a little bang to settle the batter now for comparison's sake i also prepared
a version of the cake that followed the cake box exactly so we can compare the taste and texture
my version is more yellow in color because of the pudding mix that i added in now here are the two
baked cakes so this one is the original version and this one is my version so my version is a bit
higher than the original version which makes sense because we added more ingredients to it and now
i'm going to cut through both of these cakes so let's start with the crumb so both of these cakes
have beautiful crumbs on them they're both quite soft and spongy as well although i will say that
the one that we added the extra ingredients to does just have that extra softness to it when you
touch it now let's do a little taste test so i'm going to start off with the original version first
it's good it does have some of those kind of artificial flavorings coming through but
you know that's what you're going to get if you use a box cake mix
but yeah it still tastes really good and now to try the amped up version
that is really good it's got a beautiful beautiful texture to it it's super nice and soft although
this one was nice and soft too but this one just has that kind of you know extra oomph
to it flavor-wise it's also a lot richer and kind of deeper because of those additional ingredients
that we added to it so that is it i hope you guys enjoyed this video next time you get a cake box
mix you know exactly what to do thanks so much for watching and i'll see you in the next one