I like the DH recipe for pound cake, but I decided to replace part of the milk with a buttermilk & water mixture (all buttermilk makes the recipe slow to cook & a bit rubbery). This creates a moist pound cake-like cake. I’ve used it for stacked cakes and found it to work very well. You can use any DH mix with it.
Enhanced Mix Recipe
Ingredients
- DH mix of choice
- 4 whole eggs
- 1/3 c. water
- 2/3 c. of buttermilk –full fat. If you use the lowfat buttermilk, use 1 c. of lowfat buttermilk and omit the water
- 1/3 c. of oil
- 1 package of instant pudding
For a true white cake, you can just use 6 egg whites (and not whole eggs), but I find the cake sturdier using the whole eggs. To tone down the yellow of this recipe for a white cake, I add one drop of Americolor violet color while mixing–and, yes, I do get a pretty white cake.
I use white chocolate, vanilla, or french vanilla instant pudding when making this recipe with a white cake mix.
Instructions
- Mix per directions on box.
Do you add the other ingredients in "addition" to the one that the box calls for?