11 Best Hacks To Making Boxed Cakes Taste Homemade | Can Food Professionals Tell The Difference? ─ MyRecipes

Nicole shares 11 of the best tricks to making your boxed cake mix taste homemade. We'll see if professional tasters can tell the difference between a homemade cake and boxed cake mix.

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1. Ditch the Water
2. Butter is Better
3. Up Your Eggs
4. Swap in Coffee
5. Increase Your Vanilla
6. Add Some Sour Cream
7. Break Out the Instant Pudding
8. Try Some Mayonnaise
9. Customize Your Cake
10. Make Your Frosting From Scratch
11. Get Creative with the Layers

Here's the homemade cake recipe we used, the only difference is to substitute vanilla for almond extract: https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/ulti...
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Ingredients
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter, softened
3 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups cake flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
How to Make It
Step 1
Beat sugar and butter at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy and fluffy (about 5 minutes). Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until yellow disappears after each addition. Beat in vanilla bean paste and almond extract.
Step 2
Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl; add to sugar mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at medium-low speed just until blended after each addition. (Batter will be thick.) Use immediately.



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