Cake mix into cookies

This is the easy vanilla cupcake recipe we turn to for bake sales and school functions. It’s quick and easy and fairly foolproof. Get creative with the sprinkles or add a few drops of cake mix into cookies colouring to brighten them up.

Use our cake calculator to customise the recipe! The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking. If you’re new to baking or need a really easy cake recipe, we have the ideas for you, including a yoghurt cake that you don’t need scales to make. An easy ginger traybake cake that’s sticky, sweet and subtly spiced. A perfect tea-time treat for the colder months. Cakes are best stored in airtight tins rather than plastic boxes.

Once a cake has been cut, the cut surfaces will start to dry. Covering them with a piece of aluminium foil minimises the effect. Undecorated cakes can be frozen for up to three months if tightly wrapped. It’s essential to accurately weigh and measure cake ingredients and to follow the instructions carefully. The ingredients need to be at the correct temperature before you start. For example, many cake recipes specify soft, chilled or frozen butter, and eggs at room temperature, in order to achieve a specific effect. Where caster sugar is specified, coarser granulated sugar or fine icing sugar are not acceptable substitutes as they’ll create detrimental effects, such as a speckled finish or failure to hold air bubbles in the batter.