Probably a teaspoon or 2 of vanilla or whatever extract you wish. I'm sure boxed cake mixes have some type of powdery flavoring in them, but you can do this with different butters, crisco oils and extracts. I might try out my own advice with the sock it to me cake. This is just my opinion only, but real butter works better and makes a better cake than margarine. Shannon Nicole Wells, author http://www.wildheartbook.com http://oldtimechristian.blogspot.com http://www.twitter.com/authorshannon http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1826550903
On Aug 7, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > Thanks! My only question is about the flavoring. I imagine that, at > least in yellow cakes, there is some flavoring like vanilla to give it > a taste. How much vanilla would you say to add, if any? Any other > flavors? > > On 8/7/11, Shannon Wells <[email protected]> wrote: >> Alex, there are many recipes online for cakes made from scratch. Honestly, >> in my opinion, they are much better than box cake mixes and do not take that >> much more time to make. If it were me replacing a box mix in a recipe, I >> would use about 2-1/2 cups self rising flour, if it is a white or yellow >> cake mix, and 1-3/4 cup self rising flour and 3/4 cup hersheys coco if it's >> chocolate. If you want to use all purpose flour, you'll need to add about >> 1-1/2 tsp baking soda, 1-1/2 tsp baking powder and 1 tsp salt. Hope this >> helps. >> Shannon Nicole Wells, author >> http://www.wildheartbook.com >> http://oldtimechristian.blogspot.com >> http://www.twitter.com/authorshannon >> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1826550903 >> >> On Aug 6, 2011, at 7:32 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I have noticed that many recipes sent to this list use a boxed cake >>> mix as a key ingredient. I am curious to know if there is a way to >>> replace that with a homemade mix instead? If so, what do people >>> recommend? >>> >>> -- >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex (msg sent from GMail website) >>> [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cookinginthedark mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >> > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from GMail website) > [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
