I’ve suddenly got the urge to learn how to decorate cakes. I have a surplus of oranges from the orange tree right now so I went with an Orange, Vanilla Rosemary cake. I dried the oranges in the oven and clipped some rosemary from the herb bed. It’s basically a jazzed up vanilla box cake.
To make a box cake taste more “homemade” do the following:
- Swap milk for water.
- Add an extract. I used Vanilla.
- Use more eggs. I used 3.
- Replace oil with melted butter.
- For chocolate cakes, add espresso powder or swap water for coffee.
- Add 1/4- 1 cup sugar and/or flour to the cake mix.
The internet has all kinds of tricks for making them taste better.
