Easy Bake Oven Cake Mix Recipe

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This easy bake oven cake mix recipe and frosting mix makes a nice jar mix to put in jars or bags to give along with an Easy Bake Oven at Christmas.

Easy Bake Oven Cake Mix Recipe

This easy bake oven cake mix recipe would make a nice jar mix to put in jars or bags to give along with an Easy Bake Oven at Christmas. It costs about $1.25 to make a batch for 11 cakes compared to Easy Bake Oven Mixes from Walmart at $6.97 for 2 cakes. (Can you say “I don’t think so!!!”) This was always the way we went when my kids had an Easy Bake Oven and it’s so quick and easy to mix that you will kick yourself for every buying premade mixes before!

Easy Bake Oven Chocolate Cake Mix

1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp. cocoa
1 ½ cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
1/3 cup vegetable shortening

In a medium bowl, combine sugar, cocoa, flour, baking soda and salt. Stir until blended. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles corn meal. Store in an airtight container. Use within 12 weeks. Makes 11 cakes.

To Use:

1/3 cup Easy Bake cake mix
5-6 tsp. water

Mix together until smooth. Pour mixture into greased and floured 4 inch round baking pan. Follow directions for child’s oven. Cool in pan for 5 minutes. Invert onto a small plate and remove pan. When cool, frost with Children’s Chocolate Frosting. Makes 1 cake.

Easy Bake Oven Chocolate or White Frosting Recipe

2 cups powdered sugar
3 Tbsp. dry milk
½ cup cocoa*
6 Tbsp. solid vegetable shortening

In a bowl, combine powdered sugar, dry milk and cocoa. Cut in shortening. Store in an airtight container. Use within 12 weeks.

*For white frosting, omit cocoa.

To Use:

1 cup Chocolate Frosting mix
2-2½ tsp. water

This easy bake oven cake mix recipe is from our Dining On A Dime Cookbook. For more quick and easy recipes your family will love, check out the cookbook here!

Comments

15 responses to “Easy Bake Oven Cake Mix Recipe”

March 16, 2012

Jaime

Wonderful idea! Those “Easy Bake Oven” brand cake and frosting packages that you buy cost so much it is just plain ridiculous. And using an entire box of regular cake mix can be wasteful if the child loses interest after making only 2 or 3 little cakes and then throwing out the rest of the batter. I will show your recipe to my brothers wife. His kids have an “Easy Bake Oven” but rarely use it because of the cost of the “Easy Bake Oven” brand cake and frosting packages. Now they can have fun using it again. Thanks!

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June 9, 2012

Jen

You can buy a cake mix and use 3TBSP mix with 1TBSP of milk (or water) bake for 15min and it works great. You can make a ton of easy bake cakes from one cake mix box. I just keep it tied up with a chip clip to stay fresh.

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September 28, 2012

Samantha

Your website has been such a blessing to me, as it is teaching me how to cut down on costs, which I really need to do. I am so greatful for this recipe, because my daughter will be getting an easy bake oven for Christmas from her grandma:)

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October 19, 2012

K Quinn

Ah! Where was this when I was a kid? I burnt my Easy Bake Oven out. I had to move on to the big oven. This is good so then it can be adapted for allergies. Thanks!

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October 30, 2012

Linda

Seems like you could also use one of those recipes that call for applesauce in the “box cake mix” instead of oil & eggs, that would be simple to and don’t have to worry about the kids licking the bowl with raw eggs in the mix. Just a thought.

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November 23, 2012

grizzly bear mom

I’m making these for my grand niece for Christmas.

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January 18, 2013

Jenn

Thank you soooooo much for this recipe quick easy and saves me $ for this I love you lol *^_^*

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March 29, 2013

Laura

Thank you so much I checked on these today and they are $8 a mix:) After spending only 1.91 on the oven at the thrift store I hate to spend so much on the mix! This is a lifesaver!

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December 6, 2013

Rachel H

Thanks for posting this. I am thinking of getting my granddaughter an easy bake oven for her upcoming birthday.

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January 19, 2014

Rose

Is there a typo? Surely it does not take 1 cup of sugar to frost a cake.

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1. January 19, 2014
  
  Tawra
  
  No when you add the water it will reduce to a lot less than 1 cup.
  
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2. January 20, 2014
  
  Jill
  
  It is one cup of the frosting mix not one cup of sugar when you use it.
  
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December 28, 2016

Gia

We tried using box cake mixes with 3tblsp mix to 1tblsp milk
The mix was well blended but baked to a flat cookie style product. We tried your recipe but to no avail, still left us with flat cake

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1. December 28, 2016
  
  Jill
  
  Hum, I’m not sure what went wrong. I’ve used it several times and it’s worked and I know other people have had success.
  
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September 9, 2018

Ashley Lide

Did you preheat the oven for 15 minutes? We are about to try this recipe & it was just a thought as I read over your comment.

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