Cake Mix Cupcakes
Easy recipe for cupcakes that uses cake mix, flour, sugar and other ingredients to extend the mix. Makes box cupcake taste like scratch!
Servings 30
Cost 5
Ingredients
- 16.25 oz box of white cake mix (Betty Crocker or Duncan Hines) (460 grams)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour (measure with a light hand or weigh) ( 130 grams)
- 1 cup granulated sugar (200 grams)
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk (12 oz/336 grams)
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled or very soft
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup sour cream
- 4 large egg whites
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line muffin tins with (at least) 24 paper liners.
- In a mixing bowl, combine all the dry ingredients and stir well. Add the remaining ingredients and stir to mix, then beat with a mixer (medium speed, paddle attachment) for about 1 ½ minutes or until smooth and creamy. Fill the cupcake about half full.
- Bake on center rack or center rack and lower rack (changing racks halfway through if using two racks) for 25 to 28 minutes or until cupcakes spring back when lightly touched and are slightly brown around the edges.
Notes
Yield will vary depending on what size cupcake liners you use.