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/397 grams), granulated sugar; 2 tablespoons, grated lemon zest; 1 1/2 cups (7½ ounces/213 grams), all-purpose flour; 1 1/2 cups (6 ounces/170 grams), cake flour; 1/2 cup (1½ ounces/43 grams), 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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Make Ahead
Cakes

Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2010

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

SERVES 16 (Makes enough mix for two 9-inch cake layers)

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