Make the Best Cake out of Cheap Cake Mix

Strawberry Lemon Curd Cake

I bought half a dozen boxes of cake mix on sale and I am determined to get the absolute best out of them.

Ingredients

1 box Confetti Strawberry Cake mix
2 Key Lime single serve Chobani yogurt cups
1/4 cup oil
4 eggs

Note about Box Mix

Follow the instructions. You can add an extra egg . You can replace the water for milk or yogurt. You can add a pinch of salt or some vanilla to round out the flavor. The key is to take advantage of the fact that cake mixes tend to be foolproof. You know it's going to rise, you're just trying to get the cake to be a little better.

Flavored Yogurt

Flavored yogurt is just another opportunity to add a little flavor. Most yogurt flavors will not overwhelm the other flavors in the cake.

Extra Sprinkles
Previously made lemon curd (From CupcakeJemma's recipe)
Left over cream cheese frosting

Instructions

Secret Step 1: Clean up the kitchen in anticipation of baking.

Step 1: Mix the mix, the yogurt, the oil and the eggs until combined.

Step 2: Fold in extra sprinkles. There is such thing as too many sprinkles but until the sprinkles compromise the structural integrity of the cake, you haven't reached that point.

Step 3: Bake according to your box. I divided into mini cake pans.

Step 4: Level the cakes after they cool with a serrated knife.

Step 5: Fill the center with the lemon curd and refrigerate. Otherwise your filling will come out when you try to ice. Your filling will probably come out anyway. It's not a problem. It's just lemon curd. If it really bothers you (it doesn't bother me), pipe a line of frosting around the edge of the cake layer before filling the cake with lemon curd.

Step 6: Frost the cake until you run out. If you have extra naked filled cakes and no frosting, just eat them like that. It's still good.

Step 7: Take one of the tiny cakes and coat in sprinkles to appeal to the aesthetic sensibilities of children whose approval means a lot.