I am using the Cake Mix Doctor recipe for lemon-lime (7UP) cake and am trying to figure out how much I need to make for a 12 x 18 sheet pan. According to Wilton, this size pan requires 14 cups of batter..... adn teh cake mix doctor says that it will fill (3) 9 inch round cake pans......... now when I tried the recipe - I got (2) 8 inch cake pans that came out pretty well (okay one of them kind of "mushroomed" it was weird). Anyway, I'm not really sure how much this makes or how to figure out if I need to double the recipe or what to get it to = 14 cups. Did I mention I'm making 2 layers of this b/c I don't want to torte a sheetcake? PLEASE HELP!!!!
I'd double it and see what you get for quantity by measuring the cups of batter into the 12 x 18 pan and see what's left. You can always make cupcakes with any extra batter.
It will take 14 cups to do the 12 x 18, and TWICE that if you want 2 layers of the 12 x 18.
I have had to store my cake batter while my cake was baking in the oven ( only had one of that size pan available). I just store it in the mixing bowl from my mixer, and cover it in plastic wrap...and it's always been fine. I just mix it by hand a little before I pour it into the cleaned pan, because it is a strange consistancy...it comes right back to life after I do that!
So when you use Cake Mix Doctor, it makes it like 2 cake mixes, right? So shouldn't that be around 10 cups of batter? How can I get that other 4 cups?
No. Unless you use something like the extender recipes (where you add more flour and sugar) you really are not going to end up a ton more cake mix. Usually it will only be half of a cup or a little more than a plain mix. Unless there is alot of extra additional ingerdients.
Even the extender recipes do not give you 2 cake mixes worth, but only 1.5 more than a plain mix.
When using any new recipe, your best bet is to measure it and mark that next to the recipe for future use.
Also remember, when using cakes mixes how much you get also depends on which brand and which flavor you are using. I know that DH mixes can vary from 5 to 6 cups. The Golden Butter Recipe is the only one I have found that does make 6 cups. Most others make closer to the 5 to 5.5 cups range. The white seems to be closer to the 5 cup range. I believe that Philsbury and BC make betwee 4-5 cups.
I would make three mixes. You may have some left over, but you can always use the extra for cupcakes and still have a full cake.
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