I have seen soooo many wonderful sounding recipes that start with a cake mix. There is one posted that is for a strawberry lemonade cake that you add strawberry jello and mashed strawberries to. BUT I want to get away from doing boxed cakes to do more scratch cakes.
So, does anyone know a recipe/recipes that I could use that would be like making a box cake, but from scratch, make sense? Has anyone made the homemade cake mixes and fiddled with them with these recipes?
I'm not really sure what you mean by scratch mixes being like a box mix. However, baking from scratch doesn't have to be difficult. In fact, I find it much faster and easier, and I get more batter per recipe than a typical box.
I have posted a white cake recipe and a chocolate cake recipe on this site that are very easy and were very popular when I was still selling cakes (I only enter competitions now).
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2297-0-Super-Easy-Chocolate-Cake.html
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2273-1-White-Cake.html
Both of these recipes and more are in my cook book as well. The book is called "The Sugar Fix". You can order it on-line through my web site, through the publisher's web site, Amazon.com, or even directly from a book store.
Almost all of the cakes can be in the oven in 15 minutes. Only one or two take longer. I don't like recipes that take too long to make, so these recipes are what I developed over the years. I hope you will at least try one of the recipes above and then maybe buy an book. ? 
Good luck with your cakes and I think it's great that you want to go to scratch cakes. This is not to say that I am against anyone who uses a mix, I really don't care. It's just kind of nice that some others like to do the same as myself.
Michele
I haven't tried any of the homemade "mix"recipes, but started experimenting with scratch recipes a few months ago.
I like the WHimsical Bakehouse recipes for Chocolate ButterCake and yellow butter cake. Others have said that their white cake is great too, but I have not tried it yet.
Once you make a scratch recipe a few times, it's just as quick as doctoring up a mix. Honest!
I have to check out Sugarflower's cookbook now that I know about it!
I think I'll just end up experimenting. I did just a basic yellow scratch cake last night (from my BHG cookbook) and it was great. I wanted help finding a stable cake recipe that i could work with "tweaking" Some of the doctoring of cake mixes is for more than just making them taste more like scratch.
I can find so many delicious recipes for cakes that start with a box, but I want to make that cake, but start with a scratch mix instead, make sense? So I can look at the recipe and say they are adding an extra egg and less oil and some flavoring and etc, and then change my scratch recipe accordingly. I was hoping someone has experimented with doing the same things. I think I'll just have to work with it and develop my own.
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