Mary Hardman's Quick Cake Recipes

Mary Hardman's Quick Cake Recipes

Basic recipe using your choice of white, yellow or chocolate cake mixes.

• Preferences: Pillsbury or Duncan Hines for all cakes (exception: Betty Crocker Chocolate is best for a chocolate cake)

1 Cake mix recipe makes an 8 inch double layer cake or a 9x13

Basic Cake Recipe

1 cup of water

3 whole eggs

1 cake mix 1/4 cup vegetable oil (substitute softened butter)

1 tsp. butter flavoring (optional)

White Cake Mix Base-

Raspberry or Strawberry Marble - White cake mix; mix 1/2 cup batter with 1 T raspberry or strawberry filling.  Swirl mixture into white cake batter

Coconut/Coconut Pecan- White cake mix; add 1/2 cup shredded coconut, 1 tsp. coconut flavor, (optional- substitute coconut milk for water) and add chopped pecans if desired.

White Chocolate Marble- same as raspberry marble except use chocolate cake batter with almond or vanilla flavoring.

Almond Poppy - Add 1/4 cup poppy seeds; additional almond flavor to taste.

Yellow Cake Mix Base-

Lemon, Lemon-Orange or Orange Cake - yellow cake mix; lemon or orange extract, sezt from large orange or lemon.  Add yellow or orange food color to tint the batter.

Pumpkin Spice- Add 1/2 pumpkin puree, 2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice, 2 T flour.

Apple Cake or Quick Carrot- add 2/3 cup grated apple or carrots (depending on the type of cake); spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla flavor, 2 T flour, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans.

Chocolate Mixes (Betty Crocker Chocolate) -substitute 1/2 cup mayo for oil, 2 T flour.

Chocolate Chip- Add 1/3-1/2 cup mini chocolate chips- dredge them in 2 T flour, stir after batter is in the pan.