As you remember from Monday, I made Care Bear cupcakes for a baby shower. Well, this was the other cake I made for the same shower! Needed to balance the 80s cartoon fun with a little elegance. I don’t really have much to instruct or say about this cake. It’s a simple square tiered cake, frosted with buttercream, and decorated with sugared roses and flowers (purchased from Vanilla Bean).
A common question that I get about the cake that I make is whether or not I make them from scratch. I don’t. If I’m going to spend hours and hours decorating and making frosting, I need to save time (and a little sanity) with the cake. Cakes using a box mix as a base are consistent, reliable, and predictable. It’s one less thing to worry about! I do, however, enhance the box cake mix by adding pudding mix and sour cream. This results in a more dense and moist cake. Here’s my doctored cake mix recipe!
Box Mix Cakes… Enhanced!
Recipe source: My Baking Addiction
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1 box cake mix
1 box instant-pudding mix (4-serving size) — be sure that you MATCH your cake mix and pudding mix flavors!
3 eggs, lightly beaten
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup sour cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350. Mix all ingredients together using an electric mixer. Mix until smooth. Pour cake mix into a well-greased pan and bake according to box directions. Though I would recommend watching the cake because I’ve found that it usually takes less time to bake than the box directions require.
I love this idea for doctoring cake mixes. Thanks for the tip!
That is the cutest cake! :)
I was wondering whether your altered cake mix recipe would make scale that you can easily freeze before decorating? I really want to make vertical layer cake without too much fuss, but it has to be freezable in order to cut the “layers”. Please let me know!
Not quite sure what you mean by make scale — but the cake will freeze just like any other :)
I’ve been using this cake recipe for the last year or so since I found it, really makes a difference when using box mix. Everyone always raves about how good it is. I do make buttercream frosting from scratch using wilton’s recipe. Excellent combination! Thanks so much!