Make-Ahead Lemon Cake Mix

Name: Make-Ahead Lemon Cake Mix
Yield: Serves 16 (Makes enough mix for two 9-inch cake layers)
Ingredients: 2 cups (14 ounces), granulated sugar; 2 tablespoons, grated lemon zest; 1 1/2 cups (7½ ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 1/2 cups (6 ounces), cake flour; 1/2 cup (1½ ounces), nonfat dry milk powder; 1 tablespoon, baking powder; 1 teaspoon, salt; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter (2 sticks), cut into 1/2-inch pieces and chilled; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2010

Desserts or Baked Goods

Make Ahead

Cakes

Making cake from a box mix is fast and easy, but that's about all we can say for it.

SERVES16 (Makes enough mix for two 9-inch cake layers)

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our Make-Ahead Lemon Cake Mix recipe, we found the tender crumb of cake flour mimicked that of box-mix cake, but substituting half with all-purpose flour provided a sturdier structure. Because we didn’t cream our butter or beat in the e...

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