When i buy a "kit" at the store to make a cake or a pie, it always ends up tasting better than if i make an entire cake from scratch, no matter what recipe i follow.
Are the recipes i follow just shit, or are those baking kits just really underrated? Also, i'm a big fan of apple cake, apple pie, and basically all desserts and snacks with apple in them, so please share your favorite (actually good) recipes for those.
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Yeah, I'd pet thst cat.
And the pre-made boxed stuff didn't get popular for no reason, but with any mass produced stuff, just have to find a good brand.
Yeah those boxes have lard, sugar or something in them that make them good. It's within the same realm as whenever you see a homemade pizza it never looks as good at a pizza shop.
yeah but the recipes i use also have sugar in them, so i dont really understand how they could be better
Oh, you're trolling, got it.
Thread disregarded.
What the frick
boxed cakes turn out better for most people because most people aren't expert bakers and most recipes are either bad, incomplete, or some combination of negative circumstances, baking cakes from scratch and getting high level results like that from expensive bakeries for wedding cakes is close to impossible for the amateur
>lard
it's vegetable oil
box mixes have all kinds of chemical flavoring/texture agents that you generally don't use when you make from scratch. if you're used to eating that kind of stuff then it will taste "better" than if you don't use them. if you're not used to eating that stuff, then box mixes taste weird.
boxed recipes are great, however (and I'll get shit for recommending a weismann and a tasty video) but two baking recipes that absolutely blew any boxed mix out of the water was Joshua weismanns cookie recipe where he copies levain (spelling?) bakery cookies, i just made them much smaller than he did, and the tasty brownie recipe called something like the best brownies you'll ever have or something. especially the brownies, if you follow the recipe to a T
I will not watch your videos josh
I'll try that brownie recipe
I don't get how people don't realize how often professional bakers will just use boxed recipe themselves and just freestyle with the decorations/frosting
Cute kot
What good recipes do you people have? Whenever i look up a recipe online i always find something off with it, like how the ratio's of ingredients they're using is completely off.
Baking is basically chemistry. Thise companies have put together the best concoction for most cake needs. It works the exact same way every time because its the exact same chemical formula in each box.
If you need that, I see no issue in using the boxed cake mix. I make all my cakes with my own mix of ingrediants, because I try not to make things that box cakes do the best. Interesting historical recipes and shit that you can't replicate perfectly, but have a unique and memorable flavor and presentation.
This. And the taste of a cake can vary depending on so many factors- from where the ingredients are sourced to the type of oven to the local humidity and even altitude. Very rarely will a recipe taste the same each time, even if it's something as simple as genoise.
9/10 would definitely pet. Maine coons are awesome kitties
he's not a full blood maine coon, though he probably does have some maine coon in him
Mixes are fine if you're unwilling to weigh ingredients. Doing baking by volume requires lots of frick ups till you get a feel for it
you're probably just a shitty baker. I make boxed shit out of laziness sometimes but it is nowhere near, say, ina garten's recipe I used once
it's not *just* throwing all the ingredients together and chucking it in the oven
It's more that a lot of recipes online are just not good, or they dont work with the ingredients/baking products you have. A lot of recipes want you to use trays that will never fit, or they omit using baking powder/sugar, etc.
It's why i like Youtube recipes; you can see the entire process there.
>It's why i like Youtube recipes; you can see the entire process there.
do you really think youtubers do not edit their videos?
that would be dishonest.
Literally is moister then a regular cake to such an extent bakers will often use box mixes. Food scientists can do some crazy shit.
Enriched Bleached Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sugar, Candy Bits (Sugar, Corn Starch, Vegetable Oil [Palm and Palm Kernel], Soy Lecithin, Confectioner’s Glaze, Red 40 Lake, Yellow 5, Yellow 5 Lake, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Blue 1, Carnauba Wax, Yellow 6, Red 40), Leavening (Baking Soda, Calcium Phosphate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate), Wheat Starch, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Canola Oil, Dextrose, Salt, Cellulose, Corn Starch, Propylene Glycol Esters of Fatty Acids, Mono and Diglycerides, Xanthan Gum, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Cellulose Gum, Soy Lecithin, Whey, Sodium Caseinate, Palm Kernel Oil, Citric Acid and BHT (Antioxidants).
That's what's in Funfetti mix. It tastes more flavorful because they overload the everliving shit out of it with chemically-concocted flavoring agents. The stuff you make at home isn't worse, it's just more simple because it lacks all of the extra garbage that's in commercial mixes. People these days are so used to over-flavored crap that simple homemade dishes aren't exciting enough for their blown out palate.
>chemically-concocted flavoring agents
I'm not actually seeing a lot of those in your ingredient list outside of the under 2% section.
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ants on a log
>celery stick
>peanut butter
>raisins
spread peanut butter in the canal of the celery stick and put raisins in, it will look like ants crawling in a log ha ha
they aren't
I find it odd that boxed cake mix is so good but canned frosting is absolute garbage but I've also not tried much canned frosting in my time. I would guess that making canned frosting shelf stable impacts its flavor/consistency much more then boxed cake mix which doesn't spoil until the wet ingredients are added.