cake mix

[tiramisu]

hi does anyone know how to put together your own cake mix? Where I live we dont get them and I would love to be able to replicate betty crocker! help anyone??

[emmalish]

Hi tiramisu & welcome to the forums.

Can you clarify, are you looking to learn to make a cake from scratch, without a mix? Or do you want to be able to make mixes, that you can maybe give as a gift or something?

[stuartlikesstrudel]

I can't find the recipe right now, but Dan Lepard wrote about using tapioca flour to replace some of the ordinary flour in a cake recipe to come closer to replicating the moist texture of packet mixes... perhaps this difference in texture is what you're looking for? I also enjoy the texture of packet cakes sometimes, and I think it's what a lot of people are used to, and will often prefer that to the home-baked stuff, which is a bit depressing

Dan suggested that you could try replacing up to 25% of the flour in a recipe with tapioca flour, but you will also need to add more moisture... so I guess if you subbed 25% of the flour, you'd need to add 25% of the moisture again (i.e if the recipe asks for 200ml milk, you would add an extra 50mls perhaps).