FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - Boxed Cake Mix Better Than From Scratch ???

Janet

In article >, says...
>
> This web site makes the bold claim that most home bakers
> cannot make a cake from scratch better than from a boxed
> cake mix.

> I think this will come as a surprise to many bakers,
> that making a cake from a box mix gives a better result
> than most bakers can achieve from scratch with butter, etc.

The flaw in his argument is that he only tested box mixes against other
box mixes. He may well have identified which box cake is the least awful,
but he hasn't proved it was better than made-from-scratch because no such
comparison was made.

I don't have any problem weighing ingredients exactly.

Janet