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Super Enhanced Cake Formula

By Jackie
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Makes a rich, moist, absolutely delicious cake that has a ‘crumb’ similar to a pound cake, ideal for decorating and stacking/tiering. You will get so many compliments, and disbelief that you use any cake mix at all!

This recipe is sometime called Cake Mix Extender, Extending Box Mix or Cake Mix Magic

Super Enhanced Cake Formula

Ingredients

  • 1 Cake Mix Box (Duncan Heines®, Betty Crocker®, Pillsbury® etc.)
  • 1 cup All purpose flour
  • 1 cup white granulated sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon of salt

  • 1 teaspoon baking powder

  • 3 large eggs

  • 1/4 water
  • 1 cup Sour Cream (8 oz.)
  • 1 cup melted unsalted butter
  • 1 Tablespoon of Vanilla 
    If making a white cake, use clear vanilla so cake will not discolor

  • ** If making a chocolate cake:
  • 3 Mounded tablespoons of cocoa powder

Instructions for Extending Cake Mix

For this recipe you are only going to use the actual cake mix powder, do NOT also add the ingredients from directions on the cake mix box. Just ignore any other ingredients or directions listed on the cake mix packaging.

  1. Preheat Oven to 330°
  2. Mix flour, sugar, cake mix, baking powder, salt and **cocoa powder together with fork, set aside.
  3. Add eggs, water, sour cream, butter, vanilla, and cream to Mixer bowl
  4. Add dry ingredients and mix well on (about 2 minutes on lowest speed).
  5. Bake at 330° for 65 minutes for 9 in. cake pan.


Tips:

Lay some plastic wrap (saran wrap) on your cooling rack.

When your cake comes out of the oven, while still in the pan, brush top of cake with simple syrup.

Then immediately turn pan over on plastic wrap and remove from pan.

Brush the sides and bottom (which is now the top because it is upside down) with more simple syrup.  Then wrap cake completely in plastic wrap.

Depending on the size of your cake, allow to cool for at least 45 minutes.

This seals in the moisture, gets rid of most any "dome" or doming that may happen while baking and makes all outside edges (even overcooked ones) soft and tasty.

When you torte your cake, brush on more simple syrup before adding your filling