Cake Mix Extender

This extender does wonders for a cake mix. I have always loved the convience of mixes, but was always dissappointed with the size of the cake. Well, this weekend I tried this on a layer cake, and no one would have ever guessed it was a mix. The only change I made was to sub apple sauce for the oil. Watching that fat you know. Anyway, thanks again. This is definately a 5 star tip.

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This is definitely a "Good Thing" I tried it with a devil's food cake. I did however add 1 heaping tsp. of cocoa to make sure it did not diminish the flavor of the mix. I also added all dry ingredients with dry cake and then all liquids. Thanks:>

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I tried this and it worked just fine. I couldn't tell at all that it was in there except my cake came up to the top of the 9X13" pan I was using. I've made many wedding cakes in my day and I must say that I was very impressed. Thank you for sharing!

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This is perfect. I used a red velvet cake mix and added all the dry ingredients together, then the wet ones. I baked it for 50 minutes in a dark 13x9 pan. The cake was *huge* and very moist, and adding this mix probably cost an extra 20 cents, if that. Great texture and the flavor was unchanged. I'll use this every time I make a cake from a mix. Thanks Laurie!

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No stars for this time. I don't know what brand of cake mix you all used but I didn't notice any difference at all. I used pillsbury cake mix and baked as directed after adding the extender. I still got a very small cake. I used 2 round cake pans and no way did my finished product look anything like the photos. I'll try another brand of cake mix and see what happens.
Update: I've made this twice now and have had excellent results. Perhaps the first cake mix was too old?

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This tasted great! It was very easy to assemble. I mixed all the dry ingredients, made a hole in center and added all wet ingredients. I used the cake extender with a fresh peach upside down cake (61190). I will pass this on to my daughter the baker and I'll put this in my recipe file.

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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! What a great idea! I made two cakes for a church bake sale, both of them were different. One German Chocolate and One Pineapple Upside Down Cake. I used this recipe with both, and what terrific results! The Church Bake Sale said they put a higher price on both of my cakes and they sold FIRST! I made another Cherry Cake for home...the Extender Recipe made the highest, moistest and most flavorful Cherry Cake! This recipe is a real gem and a "keeper"

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I've been using this recipe for several years on regular basis. I usually make cakes totally from scratch, but on occasion I will use a mix (like when I make wedding cakes - don't want to take any chances with them!) and whenever I do use a mix I ALWAYS use this extender recipe. I originally started using it to help make a bigger cake when using cake mix because, like everything else, they don't make as big of a cake as they did when I was younger. But what I really LOVE about this recipe is that it makes cake mix cake TASTE homemade. A from scratch baker can immediately tell if a cake (or cookies or brownies) were made from a mix. This extender recipe changes all that. I really love and highly recommend it!

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What an awesome, economical way to stretch a cake mix. I added this to a Pillsbury brand mix and it turned out marvelous. This adds almost 2 cups of volume in ingredients alone so I think earlier reviews about it not making that much difference is because it was divided up between two small cakes. If you add it all to one pan the difference is more noticeable I added all the dry ingredients to the cake mix, then added all the wet ingredients called for with the boxed mix and the extender all at the same time and mixed it together. Keeper.

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This is the BEST! I was out of oil, so I used 1/4C butter instead. I made a large sheet cake; it looks beautiful. The batter came to the top of the pan, was worried that it would spill over but it didn't. Will definitely use this when I make cakes from now on.

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I was making my DGS's b-day cake and needed a towering cake and this was just what I needed. I made a from scratch cake Blue Velvet Cake as his favorite color is blue. Then used Cake Mix Extender to fill it with and it turned out wonderful. As I was making from scratch I used Cake Flour instead of regular. So this works well in a box cake (as per other reviews) AND in from scratch. Thanks Laurie for a great idea.

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I love this! I added it to Moist Deluxe Dark Chocolate Cake Mix(Copycat-Duncan Hines) and ended up with 36 high, light, delicious cupcakes.

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Hi Laurie ! I used this to make cupcakes, from a box of cake mix. They turned out wonderful ! They were so light, moist, and full of flavor. The box said it would make 24 cupcakes. Well, it made 36 for me ! :) I sent the link to your recipe to my sister and my niece. I told them that I think that everyone who makes cakes and cupcakes should have this recipe. I had never heard of a cake extender before. I will never make cakes or cupcakes without this again. Thanks for a great new idea ! Karen

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Bravo for the Cake Mix Extender Recipe!! It is fantastic--plus very easy. Needed to find something different for the birthday cake for my daughter-in-law (Christmas birthday) and since we are visiting at her house, I got on this web site and found this. Tried it and the cake was absolutely delicious--plus made a nice large cake. Thanks for sharing! Carolie

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I made a Coconut Ice Box Cake (found on this site). I used two 9 inch pans instead of the 13x9. The cake recipe I used called for slicing the two layers of cake in half and spreading the filling between each slices. Since a box mix just doesn't raise high enough, I used the cake mix extender recipe. The cake turned out great. I will definately use this recipe again.

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What a wonderful way to make that cake mix go further. I will use this often. I have already tried it on a couple of different cakes and it was great. Did not alter the cake at all. I did add a little more extract to an cake that called for orange extract, just to be sure. It was great.

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Added this to a yellow cake mix and it was wonderful. Got raves from the people at work. You could see it rise while in the oven. Just fabulous...thanks for a great recipe

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This cake mix extender is great! I used it with my regular yellow cake mix and my new convection oven and it made a great, moist and very tall cake. I used a 9 inch springform pan and I'd recommend using two smaller, more shallow cake pans for a two layer cake, so you have some icing in the middle also. Overall though, the cake rose well and was moist and flavorful. This will be a recipe I'll keep forever!

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I have been doing this with the store bought boxed cake mixes for years ... ever since they decreased the amount of cake mix in the box but not the price ... and I either have to back 2 9x13 to feed my flock or I used the extender recipe and can bake 1 boxed cake mix with extender in my 15x10 :) They still don't last long around here ... but that's okay ... that tells me they must be good!

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This works like a charm! I live at high altitude so I make a tiny adjust ment to the leavening agents. This extension results in a lofty 9x13 cake - something that's unpredictable and often lacking at 6,300 ft.

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