dsi1 wrote:
> On 3/13/2011 10:00 AM, Mark Thorson wrote:
>> This web site makes the bold claim that most home bakers
>> cannot make a cake from scratch better than from a boxed
>> cake mix.
>>
>> http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/cake.html
>>
>> His reasons are that the ingredients are better measured,
>> and they use ingredients that you can't get.
>>
>> He also says that making certain changes to the recipe
>> on the box results in even better cakes. He cites a
>> book, _The_Cake_Mix_Doctor_, which agrees with him and
>> describes some of these methods.
>>
>> Most of his page describes the experiments he did to
>> verify the tips in that book, and to compare all of the
>> boxed cake mixes he could get his hands on. Most of
>> the tips didn't pan out, but the modifications he
>> developed worked very well.
>>
>> 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.
>
> My favorite cake does indeed come in a box but it's a frozen
> Pepperidge Farms coconut three-layer cake. It's tasty and delicate
> and the right size - small. My mom used to buy frozen cakes back in
> the old days but it never occurred to me do such a quaint thing. I
> don't know what the hell they put in those cakes but I'm pretty much
> hooked. The lemon cake is good too. :-)

I used to buy the chocolate layer cakes. I too liked them for their small
size. I don't eat cake but I would take them to work for parties and
things. We didn't have a lot of people in our office. If I were to bake a
cake, it would be too much.