How To Make A Boxed Cake Mix Taste Like Homemade
Adding just a few ingredients turns a boxed cake into a cake that tastes like a homemade cake.
Equipment
- 2 9 inch cake pans
Ingredients
- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 1 stick butter, melted
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 container Chocolate frosting
- ½ cup multi colored sprinkles
- 38 sticks snack sized Kit Kat candy bars, broken into individual sticks
- non-stick cooking spray
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Spray (2) 9 inch round cake pans with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
- Disregard instructions on the box. Place the cake mix, 4 eggs, stick of melted butter and 1 cup milk in a mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer for 2 minutes until well combined and there are no lumps in the batter. Batter will be slightly thicker than the regular cake mix batter your are used to.
- Divide batter evenly between the two prepared cake pans.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes. Cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean with no crumbs attached to it.
- Remove cake rounds from the oven and allow them to cool in the pans to room temperature.
- Once cakes are cooled scoop the chocolate frosting into a mixing bowl. Whip the frosting with a handheld electric beater until the frosting doubles in volume.
- Remove a cooled cake round from baking pan and place it on a platter. Top with frosting. Add second layer of cake on top and frost the entire cake with the remaining frosting.
- Press Kit Kat bars onto the side of the cake working your way all the way around the cake.
- The frosting will act as glue and hold the candy bars in place.
- Tie a length of ribbon around the cake and candy bars and tie it into a pretty bow.
- Top the cake with a layer of sprinkles.
- Refrigerate until ready to serve.