I am a professional baker and I have tried all of these cake mixes and out of all of them I find the Ghirardelli cake mix to be the best boxed cake mix on the market. In my opinion no box mix will ever match up to a “from scratch” cake but Ghirardelli comes the closest. They also make a FANTASTIC brownie mix too.
Melted Butter( instead of oil), organic milk and organic/ non gmo cocoa powder and real vanilla extract must be added to these box cakes, too elevated them and make them taste " good" .
Same here, the taste and texture are the best of the boxed mixes and they've always turned out well when I've played around with the recipe. I've used white cake mix with coconut oil and added crushed pineapple = pina colada cupcakes (frosted with coconut).
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Sorry, but starting-off with B.C’s German Chocolate cake mix is just wrong. German Chocolate is meant to be a mild-flavored chocolate cake...not to be lumped together with deep dark, double, triple, Devil’s food or fudge. Together with that wonderful special coconut frosting, it’s in a class by itself. I bake from scratch most of the time, and make a “killer” chocolate cake, but I use Betty Crocker’s German Chocolate cake mix in my cookie bars I make during the holidays, AND as a perfectly respectable German chocolate cake, too.
Try Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Cake recipe. You will never eat boxed cake mixes again! That said, if you absolutely insist on a box mix, at least replace the water with milk and the oil with butter.
If you've ever checked the ingredients on a box of cake mix (or ANY mix, for that matter), why in the world would even buy it--much less, eat it?! Why would you even expect it to taste good? You're not saving time; you're WASTING time! It's not hard to make a good chocolate cake from scratch using quality ingredients instead of chemicals. While it's hard to beat recipes from America's Test Kitchen, even mediocre cookbooks like Betty Crocker or Better Homes and Gardens will give you a much better tasting cake.
1:42 "...and a whole cup of oil." What kind of oil? Rarely is oil kind ever mentioned in videos like this, and that's sad (because, IMO, it makes the video useless)
@@jordanrodgers3766 -- I'll never use canola oil, but if they said coconut oil, I'd be interested. Butter is good, too. Sad that mentioning what they used didn't occur to the video's makers when there are choices available and some may be awful but we out here would not know.
@@susanjohnson9795 -- That's an interesting idea, olive oil in something sweet, but as long as it does the job needed (and if it is real OO), hey, I have some should I need to make a boxed cake. 👍🏽😊
