I'm not quite sure what you are wanting to achieve. I use a cake mix with an extender and it is very moist and I get lots of compliments. For those who make from scratch, I salute you but as long as I get the raves on what I use, I will continue doing it.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1977-0-Cake-Mix-extender.html
This is the recipe I use.
Diane
I have an excellent yellow cake recipe that I found and edited here on CC. I'm not sure if it's what you are looking for though- It's a yellow cake that taste like the boxed cake (better to me) but it doesn't use oil; it uses butter.
I was just reading up on this topic--there are other forum posts with this information. Anyhow, the common theme was to add a big spoonful of sour cream of mayonnaise to each cake recipe--don't substitute anything, just add it. I haven't tried it yet, but I plan to. I just try to watch the time very carefully and not overbake the cake. Remember that it will continue to bake for about 5 minutes or so, while it sits in the hot pan. Another technique was to wrap the cake in saran wrap about 10-15 after you take it out of the oven and turn it out of the pan. That traps the heat and keeps moisture inside the cake. And the saran wrap does not stick--I just tried in last weekend! Hope this helps! Good luck!
Well I think that the reason that cake mixes are softer and moister is all those lovely chemicals they use, you know dough stabilizers, gums....etc. things we can't pronounce. sheesh would be nice to find a place that sold those kind of things to j.q. publique.
just had to say thatit seems to me that when you use a cake extender recipe, you ARE making a scratch cake. If you're only using a cake mix as one of the ingredients and adding so many of your own, I don't think its cheating at all! (p.s. I brought a doctored cake mix cake to work the other day and everyone went bananas over it, no joke, I never heard people gush like that before!)
My secret to really moist, scratch cakes is real butter and buttermilk. I don't think any of my recipes have come out dry. I have posted a white cake and a chocolate cake on this site. Both are very easy.
You can PM me for any other information you would like.
Michele
Thanks everybody. Diane and doitallmom, I will surely try your recipes.
But I thought because of Oil cakes from cake mixes are making very moist. And I saw on Marthas show. Paula Deen was showing Hummingbird cake and she used self-rising flour and especially oil and she mentioned that oil makes cake moist. And I know she is the great baker. So I was wondering and looking for recipe with oil.
But yes I agree sour cream makes cake little moist.
I came from India and there is no cake mixes available and whenever I went there I couldnt my cake moist it is always dry. So because of this reason also I was looking for the good moist cake recipe from scratch. I am always believing and kind of use to making things from scratch. If I couldnt bake moist cake then I have to have bake sponge cakes and it is not affordable for me.
I will try every recipe that mentioned it is moist.
So thanks again everybody.
Nitu
Good luck Nitu! If we can be of any more help, don't hesitate to ask. It's not necessarily the oil that makes a cake moist. It depends on the combination of the ingredients. Just keep trying until you find one that is good for you.
Diane
Well I think that the reason that cake mixes are softer and moister is all those lovely chemicals they use, you know dough stabilizers, gums....etc. things we can't pronounce. sheesh would be nice to find a place that sold those kind of things to j.q. publique.
www.amazon.com - they have everything! Hi-ratio shortening, xanthan gum, soy lecithin, etc... There's a gourmet foods section that has all that stuff! I've never ordered, so I can't tell you anything about it, but it's there!
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