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Homemade White Cake Mix

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Make your own homemade White Cake Mix from scratch to have on hand in your pantry. This recipe is wonderful to reduce food colorings, preservatives and to reduce costs.

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Making your own homemade mix is a cake walk in the park! Simply combine all of the ingredients into a jar or Zip-close style baggie, or vacuum seal bag. Label it with the directions to complete the recipe and voila!

You’ve just created your own convenient homemade White Cake mix.

To Make 1 Jar of Mix:

2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup nonfat dry milk
3 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon shortening

White Cake:

3 egg whites
1 cup water
1 teaspoon Clear vanilla extract
1 Jar Mix (see above!)

Preheat oven to 350F.

Grease and flour a 9×13 inch cake pan, or two round 8″ pans.

In a medium bowl beat the egg whites until foamy, add the vanilla extract, water, and contents of the homemade cake mix in a jar, mixing well for about 2 minutes, pour the batter into 9×13 greased pan.

Bake for 25-30 minutes. Cool & Frost as desired.

This mix will stores well for up to 3 months (depending on your method of storage).

If you’d like a little variety, we also recommend these other Homemade, Do it yourself Cake mix recipes.

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10 thoughts on “Homemade White Cake Mix”

    • It says 1jar mix,but I don’t see a jar mix recipe.

      Perhaps you have a display issue? Are you not able to see the full page? The jar mix is listed directly above the instructions to prepare the cake:

      2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
      1/3 cup nonfat dry milk
      3 teaspoons baking powder
      3/4 teaspoon salt
      1 1/2 cups white sugar
      1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon shortening

      Preheat oven to 350F.
      Grease and flour a 9×13 inch cake pan

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    • It says 1jar mix,but I don’t see a jar mix recipe.

      The jar mix is listed on the Upper Right hand side of this Recipe….It took me a little bit to find it myself….

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    • Question about the shortning do you actually store it with the dry ingredients or put in a baggie then in the jar?

      I would think that you would use a mixer on low speed to mix all the dry ingredients together as well as incorporate the shortening into the mix, store as directed.

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  1. i had the same question as kbanks. do you cream it with the sugar or jus place it on top. i know it doesn’t need to be refrigerated, but i wasn’t sure about just “glopping” it on top.

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  2. how would exchanging the sugar for splenda work? Would it not rise as well or make the cake taste really weird. my hubby loves the cakes i make but has trouble with blood sugar.

    the sugar free mixes in the stores are twice the price of the regular ones sooo…i normally make the regular ones. I want to cut down the sugar for him mainly… Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

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    • how would exchanging the sugar for splenda work? Would it not rise as well or make the cake taste really weird. my hubby loves the cakes i make but has trouble with blood sugar.

      the sugar free mixes in the stores are twice the price of the regular ones sooo…i normally make the regular ones. I want to cut down the sugar for him mainly… Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

      I would use the granulated splenda thats made for baking.

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  3. 4 stars
    I was worried about putting the shortening into the cake mix before storing, until my brilliant husband pointed out that bisquick and jiffy mix both have shortening in them already, DUH.

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