cake mixes?

[ukinusa]

Probably not a good question for this site!.....but I live in the US,and, as many prob. do,I buy cake mixes for speed......when my sister came to visit she really liked the 'lightness' of the cakes the mixes produced,I'm very sure the oil instead of butter or margarine is the ingredient which gives the 'lightness'...anyone know how I could substitute the butter or margarine in cake recipes for oil instead?,I mean,would it be the same ammount?,sorry if this sounds dumb!!!....ukinusa

[Auntie M]

You could try using the butter flavored Crisco
shortening in place of the butter or margarine.
It would be used in the same amounts, though for oil I'm not sure the amounts would be the same as it would give the batter a looser consistency.

[Tindall]

For light and Moist and low calories use diet soda and cake mix. example--
Chocolate cake mix and diet cherry and vanilla Doctorpepper mix it and put in your sprayed cake pan and bake like the directions said. take it out of oven and let it cool or warm add can of cerry pie filling servce it with coolwhip if you wanted to. I did it for a pot luck and they even scrape clean my cake pan.
Apple spice cake add diet seven same as above and top with light coolwhip mix with splenda and cinnamon together. yummy and low fat. with diet sodas cake is so moist and light and quick.

[fatboyyesindeed]

well you should melt the butter and substitute it cup for cup, this will however give you a very dense cake.

[marykalinec]

This may not be on the topic but wanted to give you a heads up on what I do when cake mixes are on sale. I buy 20 or 30 and freeze them. I got the last batch for seventy nine cents a box.

[carolee]

I live in the U.K. Although I'm from N.J. I get a lot of
recipes from the website and I sometimes have difficulty
converting them. i.e. the Bailey's cake recipe does not
specify what size packet of yellow cake mix. So I
wondered what is the standard size of a packet of cake
mix? And I've forgotten how many ounces in a stick of
butter?

We have very few ready made cake mixes here and Jello
Pudding is not available here. So I've substituted sponge
cake mix and powdered custard for the above recipe.
Guessing the amout of the cake mix as well as the size of
the pan.

Is there a standard size bundt cake pan?

Carolee

[labradors]

Bookmark this cooking conversions site, as well as this one.

The first one often gives package sizes for various foods. In this case, a search for yellow cake mix gives a few different options, almost all of which show one package as 18.5 ounces, which holds with the 18.5 or 18.25 that I found to be typical when comparing boxed-mix products.

The second one has a handy section just for butter conversions. So, if you have forgotten that butter is usually sold by the pound, and that there are four sticks in each package (making each stick four ounces), you could check their butter conversions and it would tell you that.

Getting back to the yellow cake mix, though: it may be better for you to try this recipe for a basic, yellow cake mix.