Ingredients

• 2¾ cups cake flour, see notes
• 1½ cups sugar
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 teaspoon fine salt, sea salt or Himalayan
• 4 tablespoons softened unsalted butter

Directions

• In a large bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add in the butter and use a pastry cutter to blend the butter into the dry ingredients.

• Store in a container with a tight fitting lid in the fridge for a couple weeks or in the freezer for two to 4 months.

• Use in replace of store-bought yellow cake mix

If using this recipe for cherry dump cake, I use this recipe for the cherry filling:

8 cups frozen cherries or any fruit

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 tsp almond extract (with cherry)

2 teaspoons lemon juice

3/4 cup sugar

4 tablespoons cornstarch

1/4 teaspoon salt

Cook together until comes to a boil, stirring often and then add 2 tbls butter.