Hi friends!
can anyone advise me as to how I can turn halfna yellow cake mix into chocolate cake? I want to use half the cake mix for a small cake and the other half for chocolate cake pops. Do I just add cocoa? If so how much?
thanks!
Just add about 1/2 cup UN sweetened cocoa to it & if you use strong brewed coffee for the liquid it will be even better
Thanks kakeladi
I’ll be splitting one box of cake mix batter so would I use 1/2 cup for the entire cake mix or just half of it? I was thinking of maybe dissolving a 1/2 teaspoon of coffee into 1/2 tspn vanilla and then adding it to the batter.
Hajrak, I am sure kakeladi will get back to you, and I would certainly defer to her expertise. However, for half a cake mix, I would think you would only need about 1/4 cup of cocoa. You can always start with 1/4 cup, taste it and add more if you want a stronger chocolate flavor. I am not sure the vanilla would be a large enough volume of liquid to completely dissolve the coffee. If it is not quite enough, add another teaspoon of water. It will not hurt anything.
Sandra is right- that’s what I get for answering in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep The best way to go is to divide the dry mix making up each 1/2 separately That way you can make the chocolate better than trying to change vanilla batter into chocolate I don’t think 1/2 teaspoon of coffee is near enough It also will make it easier to tell how much chocolate to use
I think the only tricky part of trying to make half batches of the batter would be to split 3 eggs
Or measure the 3 eggs scrambled in a measuring cup & use 1/2 of whatever that measure is ;)
Thanks for the tips friends! I scrambled the eggs and split it between the batter, I added cocoa to the dry batter as well as coffee and I think it worked well! The chocolate cake rose well and tastes good too! I’m going to crush it up to make cake truffles now lol
thanks again!
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