Have you ever used a cake mix box?

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I like to bake from scratch with real eggs, butter, flour, sugar etc. I find the idea of using a cake mix to be shameful and makes you less of a woman. After all baking isn't difficult, even children can do it. Or am I just being a snob?

Chazmatazz269 · Accepted Answer

I dunno about the UK, but the US has a serious problem with sugar. Baking your own treats allows you to control the quality and quantity of the ingredients you use. That’s just plain smart, if you ask me. It is more time consuming. We also have a problem with instant gratification here. I was listening to a podcast in which one of my favorite athletes was talking about the diet she was on. The short of it suggests that we should be eating much less of highly processed foods. That’s not news. The reason was, at least for me. If you think about the time and energy it takes to take grain from seed to baked goods, nobody could eat as much as most of us eat if we had to grow it and make it ourselves. We only do because we can just pick it up at the store with zero effort invested. Zero calories out plus eleventy thousand calories in equals an obesity epidemic. So i just try to keep that in mind when i’m shopping.
The only thing i’ve ever baked was a cheesecake. It was good, but not worth the effort! Ell oh ell!

MrOracle · Accepted Answer

I mostly bake from scratch, especially for the past decade, but I have used cake mixes in the past. I don't use them anymore because they - like so many other foods - were downsized about 15 years ago to disguise a price increase, which was insane because the original size was determined by how much batter was needed for a 9x13 cake or 2 9" round cakes. The modern smaller mixes don't create enough batter for a full-sized cake, making them useless.

"Half gallons" of ice cream are now only 3 pints instead of 4, and so many other pre-packaged foods are smaller, but while that is evil and infuriating, it's not as bad as screwing up a baking recipe. So, I went back to 100% scratch with recipes inherited from my grandmother, and they are better and make the right sized cakes.

TheRealPepperPotts · Accepted Answer

I don't really like cake that much. I'm more an ice cream or cheesecake kind of girl. But I've done all of those for different reasons. There are a lot better quality mixes available today than there were 20 years ago, and if I am baking with kids I am definitely using a mix (or premixing the dry ingredients ahead of time myself). It's a more positive experience for everyone that way. I can make normal and grain-free cakes from scratch, but I don't always choose to. My favorite thing to do with cakes is decorate them, so a mix gets the boring part over with so the fun can begin!

I guess that makes me less of a woman. Shoot. Always a moving goalpost to strive for! :D

PBandJ_Nerd · Accepted Answer

I've used cake box mixes plenty of times. Same with brownies & cookies. They all still taste good, so it doesn't bother me.

James The Foodie · Accepted Answer

I hang around Girls Ask Guys because it's a great place to express my passion for breast-shaped cakes.

I've used a cake mix box alright! You see, I've got this little fantasy going where I play the role of a well-endowed baker. With my huge schlong hanging out of my apron, I'm creating the most decadent, moist cakes using only the finest ingredients (if you know what I mean). And when it comes time for the mixing, well let's just say things get downright handsy if ya catch my drift.

My kitchen becomes a veritable playground for all sorts of naughty behavior; think flour everywhere, dough being kneaded and spanked, and "frosting" getting licked off fingers. But don't worry about me getting too full on these tasty treats – after each session, I clean up thoroughly... with my tongue.

FreyaRed · Answer

Once as I optimized my mother's cheesecake receipt. I tried Dr. Oetker's cheesecake mix and it was a disappointment with the conclusion whey powder with artificial aromas can't replace 1,5 kg curd cheese.

SotiCoto · Answer

You're completely right.
I count myself as pretty lazy, but not quite pre-made cake-mix lazy. That is a whole other level of incompetence.
It has been quite a few decades since then, but back in my teenage years in the middle of the Ceredigion countryside I used to occupy much of my nocturnal hours grinding out chocolate cakes. Yes. Grinding.
I'd just make a chocolate cake, then I'd make another chocolate cake, then another and another. And my family members would wake up to a kitchen full of generic copypaste chocolate cakes... Then we'd have to go around giving them to the neighbours so they didn't go bad... and one time the dog ate several of them and got sick.
They weren't bad cakes.
I just made too many of them.
Apparently not every skill is supposed to be practiced over and over again until you reach proficiency.

Horndog_Harry · Answer

I hang around Girls Ask Guys because it's a great place to express my passion for breast-shaped cakes.

I've used a cake mix box alright! You see, I've got this little fantasy going where I play the role of a well-endowed baker. With my huge schlong hanging out of my apron, I'm creating the most decadent, moist cakes using only the finest ingredients (if you know what I mean). And when it comes time for the mixing, well let's just say things get downright handsy if ya catch my drift.

My kitchen becomes a veritable playground for all sorts of naughty behavior; think flour everywhere, dough being kneaded and spanked, and "frosting" getting licked off fingers. But don't worry about me getting too full on these tasty treats – after each session, I clean up thoroughly... with my tongue.

IslaTheWitch · Answer

I used the mix for some specific cakes that doing from scratch would be too time consuming...

I like home made things :D so I mostly bake from scratch at home

but sometimes... I buy the the butter cookies :D

Jersey2 · Answer

I baked my wife a birthday cake from scratch as I told her, I was very proud. Later she told me that a cake mix from the box wasn’t from scratch. 😳

Opps, I actually thought it was as I needed to add egg and everything.

RavVid · Answer

Even a man can as well as children. I have made one cake from a supermarket cake mix box too see how hard it was. It was piss easy.

I'd expect a woman to be able do it from scratch without an electric beater and agree that she is less of a woman if she can't.

Aubrey97 · Answer

As a kid, my mom would get me the box of cake mix. Now as an adult, I bake everything from scratch. Cookies and cheesecake mostly, not really a regular cake.

bolverk · Answer

I've never made anything in a 'box cake mix', I did Home Economics at secondary school, one of the projects was comparing the cost of box mix cakes Vs scratch made cakes, then it was way cheaper to scratch make cakes than use box mixes.

Surely · Answer

I have baked several cakes in my younger years. Many from a box mix and several from scratch. Even made angel food cakes from scratch with goose eggs!
My mother said I could make a better cake than her. But she wouldn’t teach me to make bread! Cause I would mess up the dough!

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I have used cake mixes in the past but not in decades. Now, I always bake "from scratch."

RebelinSteel · Answer

I’ve used them but prefer making from ingredients. i will also buy pre made cakes as well.

Razp_Sorbet · Answer

I've used mixes. As a professional patisserie chef there's no shame in using them. Some are really good plus a few less dishes is always a good thing.

XXblack88 · Answer

A box cake mix is cheaper then buying all the ingredients for a cake from scratch. I've done both and like making it from scratch better.

Insecure2 · Answer

Personalny, I also like to bake from scratch. I find the idea soothing at times. However, I did use a cake mix just out of curiosity. The tase is a little off, but still quite good.

LaurenM1997 · Answer

I sometimes use a cake mix box depending on how I feel

LiamS95 · Answer

Usually fo all being and cooking from scratch but when in a hurry I have used the odd cake mix and you use real eggs in them too.

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

Oftentimes, I'd bake from scratch.  However, I have also used cake mixes once in a while.

OfMiceandMen · Answer

Yes, and they've turned out to be pretty good. I prefer making pies though over cakes, I enjoy the fresh fruit in a pie over cakes/icing.

Dongie · Answer

I'm a guy so yeah I've used'em. I don't no about snob, politically speaking.

bobby_bush_eater · Answer

I've only ever made specialty cakes ie. traditional recipe from my family's village, lemon ricotta cake, tres leches cake etc. Because of that I don't use the boxes

DrPepper12 · Answer

My biggest problem? Throwing the box in garbage and then getting it out of garbage to read instructions! I do it EVERYTIME!!

exitseven · Answer

I baked a chocolate cake from my Aunt Maries recipe. I am told it came out good.

DJB72 · Answer

I bake from scratch. It makes me feel manly and prevents me killing people.

Wiredone · Answer

Yes we've used box cake mix. We actually have a box in the cupboard

GzRooster · Answer

If your gonna do something do it right if it takes a little bit long to make it’s worth how much it’s gonna taste better

AviatorTom · Answer

That's the only way I've ever baked a cake.

laly520 · Answer

I bake from scratch

LavLavLuv · Answer

I've used a cake mix

Wise4myage · Answer

My mother has done that.

NathanDavis · Answer

nope...

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

Hell yeah, Betty Crocker and shit.

Angie03 · Answer

I use cake mix box add my frosting.

stvigor · Answer

You should make a lemon poppy cake 🎂

RedInnocent69 · Answer

All three.

Kathy1111 · Answer

yes i have

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