![]() Some fancy frosting could probably rescue this bland cake if you found yourself in a dessert emergency. It wasn’t what we’re looking for, but it wasn’t not actively bad either. Still it baked and browned evenly, and the mix came together in a snap. Instead of springy or airy, it was dense and a little stretchy, like a dinner roll. The group also noticed that the texture here wasn’t right. ![]() Senior cooking editor Emma Laperruque said it “tastes like nothing,” and Urmila called it “bread, not cake.” We missed any kind of vanilla or caramel notes that our favorites had in spades. The verdict: Aside from being domed in the center, which makes for a less beautiful frosted cake, this cake mix’s cardinal sin was that it just wasn’t very sweet. As food editor Shilpa Uskokovic explains, unbleached flour can make a cake “coarse, faintly crumbly like cornbread, and noticeably sweeter because of the lack of acid,” than cakes made with bleached flour (like the mixes from Jiffy, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Great Value, and Duncan Hines). What’s inside: 365 uses unbleached flour in its cake mix, which can make a big difference in the final texture and flavor of a cake. ![]() Photograph by Isa Zapata, Food Styling by Spencer Richards The Drearily Dull: 365 Whole Foods Market Classic Yellow Cake Mix Everyone has their favorite flavor of cake mix (mine's devil's food cake), but if we were going to bet on one to please an entire crowd, the choice is easy: classic yellow. We waited impatiently for the oven to preheat while frantically baking a few cupcakes for a school bake sale. We made an absolute mess of our kitchens baking a boxed cake mix during sleepovers with our friends, messily cracking eggs and spilling oil everywhere. So many of us have fond memories of baking boxed cake mixes at home. You don't need any other ingredients either. Sales increased over the years, but the boxed cake genre really began booming in the 1950s, when companies began including sugary frosting in their marketing. Recipe Comments I always keep canned fruit, butter, and cake mix handy so I can make this in a jiffy for unexpected guests. Duff and Sons as a way to use the company’s excess molasses. Today, which boxed yellow cake mix is party ready?īoxed cake mixes were patented in 1933 by a Pittsburgh molasses company called P. In our Taste Test series, BA editors conduct blind comparisons to discover the best supermarket staples (like vanilla ice cream or frozen pizza).
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