DIY Vanilla Cake Mix

A quick and easy homemade vanilla cake mix to use in recipes that call for an 18.25 oz boxed vanilla, white or yellow cake mix.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword cake, diy, mix, nut free

Prep Time 15

Total Time 15

Servings

Calories 162kcal

Equipment

food processor
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.kitchen scale or measuring cups
measuring spoons

Ingredients

200 g all-purpose flour
268 g sugar
16 g buttermilk powder
15 g powdered milk
6 g vegetable shortening
1 ½ tsp vanilla powder
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp baking soda

Instructions

Place all of the ingredients in a large food processor bowl. Pulse until the ingredients are uniformly combined. The mixture should be loose and powdery with no visible clumps or lumps from the shortening.
200 g all-purpose flour, 268 g sugar, 16 g buttermilk powder, 15 g powdered milk, 6 g vegetable shortening, 1 1/2 tsp vanilla powder, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp baking soda
Transfer to an 4-cup air tight container and store in the pantry until ready to use. To bake a 9"x13" cake or 2-8"x8" round cake layers, follow the DIY Vanilla Cake Mix - Preparation Instructions

Notes

Older (pre-2015) semi-homemade recipes specifically call for 18.25 ounce cake mix or expect that to be the size of the cake mix due to the standard market size of a boxed cake mix at the time the recipe was written. Unfortunately, the vast majority of modern cake mixes are 15.25 ounces or even 13.25 ounces leaving you short on dry ingredients for your recipe. You can use this full recipe to replace one 18.25 ounce cake mix in any recipe, or you can use a small amount of this recipe to bring a 15.25 or 13.25 ounce boxed cake mix up to the 18.25 ounces required in the recipe (rather than opening a second boxed cake mix to make up the difference).

Nutrition