What is the best box cake mix for cupcakes?

Here are the best boxed cake mixes.

• Best Overall: General Mills White Cake Mix.
• Best Lemon: Krusteaz Meyer Lemon Pound Cake Mix.
• Best for Cupcakes: Pillsbury Funfetti White Cake Mix.
• Best Yellow Cake: Jiffy Golden Yellow Cake Mix.
• Best Red Velvet: Betty Crocker Super Moist Red Velvet Cake Mix.

How do you make boxed cupcakes fluffier?

Add the amount of eggs called for in the recipe but add two extra egg yolks. The extra yolks add the density and moisture you’d find in a bakery cake! Milk: Add MILK, not water, when your box mix calls for liquid. The milk adds density, fat and, most importantly, extra flavor to your mix.

What is the best tasting cupcake?

Peanut butter, chocolate, vanilla, coffee, red velvet and carrot cake are some of the most popular flavors of cupcake.

How many cupcakes in a cake box?

One box of pre-packaged cake mix will produce 24 standard size cupcakes, or 12 to 18 jumbo cupcakes.

What makes box cake better?

If you want a better box cake mix you need to substitute melted butter for the oil and double the amount your recipe calls for. If you are on a diet, use applesauce instead of the extra oil or butter. It won’t be as flavorful, but it will help with moist cakes.

What are the ingredients in box cake mix?

A typical boxed cake mix contains most of the following: Sugar, Bleached Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oil Shortening Cocoa Powder Leavening, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Cellulose Gum, Xanthan Gum , Maltodextrin , Artificial Flavors.

How long to bake cupcakes from cake mix?

In large bowl, beat cake mix and water with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds; beat on medium speed 1 minute. Pour batter into muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full. Bake 12 to 20 minutes or until cupcakes are golden brown and cracks on top feel dry.