Duncan Hines and his wife.......he was not even a chef.......just a business man who announced his fave his or that.
Soon his name was on a slew of foods. His cake mixes are a cut above.
Posted on 06/02/2021 1:58:41 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
My husband uses that method for making cakes. I seldom eat cake, but he swears this does make a mix taste much better.
So did my grandmother. When Grandpa sold the farm and moved her to town, she discovered store bought foods and never looked back. lol
“...extra cherries in it.”
Dad’s favorite cake was always, ‘Chocolate Cake with Nuts and Cherries.’
Mom would use a boxed mix (we, too, vote for Duncan Hines brand) of chocolate cake mix and add whatever chopped nuts she had on hand and an entire jar of Maraschino Cherries cut in half. I think she added the liquid from the cherries as part of the total liquid needed for the cake mix.
No frosting, no nothing. Maybe some whipped cream on the side.
It was really good!
My grandmother always had one of those from the A&P, which she called the tea store, in her kitchen.
It started out as a tea company.
My Grandma found ‘Hamburger Helper’ a revelation :-)
(Of course, she was doing her best in her ‘sixties to largely raise a couple of kids on a shoestring.
(For ‘fancy’ occasions, the little frozen puffed-pastry patty shells filled with creamed chicken were her go-to; and I still love that.)
My husband just remembered that one of his grandmothers really liked ‘boxed prepared foods’, and when they went to her house, the kids really enjoyed Rice-a-Roni.
When his mom noticed how much they liked it, she recreated it at home, from scratch - she was also raising a bunch of kids on her husband’s school-teacher salary, and figured out how to stretch a dollar!
That would be very good with vanilla ice cream!
Evening JT. That cake is so beautiful. And thank you for the box cake tips. Good to know.
I made gingerbread for my husband Monday. I sadly baked it a tad too long & it was dry. A few months ago I was in the middle of measuring ingredients for another gingerbread & we had a water unit flood,so my count was off & it poured all over the oven in a giant burned mess. That was fun to clean🙀. Third time will be the charm.
What the difference between Mexican vanilla and regular?
And where do you find it?
Came across an article discussing how expensive vanilla extract has become and it suggested buying vanilla bean pods and soaking them in vodka. Sounds good to me!
Looks like the right spot for BBQ
Oh that sounds delicious! Cherries are the ONLY fruit I like with chocolate. Mmmmmmmm....
Tell husband to just dunk it in coffee :-)
Duncan Hines and his wife.......he was not even a chef.......just a business man who announced his fave his or that.
Soon his name was on a slew of foods. His cake mixes are a cut above.
I really miss the A&P - it was a very ‘friendly’ store.
I also miss the old Giant Food, from when the Cohen family still ran it. A European company took over, and it’s just not the same anymore.
I never buy any other.
I live in Texas, Mexican Vanilla is cheaper and has a ‘different’ flavor than regular vanilla.Pure vanilla is made with the extract of beans from the vanilla plant. Mexican vanilla is frequently made with the extract of beans from the tonka tree, an entirely different plant that belongs to the pea family. Tonka bean extract contains coumarin.
Yum... Cakes? I am thinking of baking a cake tomorrow. Pineapple Upside Down Cake...
coumarin can be toxic, use sparingly.
Post your recipe. I’ve never managed to make a good one.
Canela
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