Homemade Yellow Cake Mix

Name: Homemade Yellow Cake Mix
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: american
Ingredients: 2½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour see notes; 1½ cups sugar; 4 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoon fine salt sea salt or Himalayan; 4 tablespoons softened unsalted butter; 1 recipe homemade yellow cake mix; 1 cup water; 2/3 cup grapeseed oil; 3 large eggs; 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract; 1/2 cup softened unsalted butter; 2½ cups powdered sugar; 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder; 3 tablespoons half & half see notes; 2½ tablespoons buttermilk; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

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Homemade yellow cake mix is a from-scratch substitute for boxed mix. Combine dry ingredients and use in any yellow cake recipe for a fresh alternative.

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Ingredients

12 SERVINGS

2½ cupsunbleached all-purpose flour
1½ cupssugar
4 tspbaking powder
1 tspfine salt — or sea salt or himalayan salt
4 tbspsoftened unsalted butter

FOR THE YELLOW CAKE RECIPE:

1 recipehomemade yellow cake mix
1 cupwater
⅔ cupgrapeseed oil
3large eggs
2 tsppure vanilla extract

FOR THE FROSTING:

½ cupunsalted butter — softened
2½ cupspowdered sugar
½ cupunsweetened cocoa powder
3 tbsphalf & half
2½ tbspbuttermilk
1 tsppure vanilla extract

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Nutrition uses 12 ordinary servings for this batch; the source listed 1.

Method

5m total

Read the method on Simply ScratchLaurie McNamara’s original page

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Vitamins & minerals

Potassium: 153mg
Calcium: 239mg
Iron: 2mg

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