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Cake mix is not the way to go because it's "american trash" and "plasticky garbage"
Ah, yet another denizen of culture who thinks we get all our celebratory cakes from the cooler at Wal Mart.
I do love in the comments where somehow bakery cakes are also trash that taste like flour and cocoa. Where??? What bakery serves that???
I'll have to inform my local bakery they're doing it wrong. Very lucky here, we have lots of options for cakes/pies/desserts. Everything from our grocery stores, bakeries, and a few Mexican restaurants/tienditas. One of the restaurants makes great Tres leches cake.
My fave local bakery makes a lemon drop cake. I get it every year for my birthday. The people who own it were on Cupcake Wars back in the mid 2000's.
If I bake a cake, it's box mix. The brand I like out of all of those options is KA.
I think you missed the great value 'raw flour and cocoa powder' cake. It's between to the mandatory hot dog purchase section and red solo cups.
I didn’t know “food engineers” were lying to us
Ok, but Wegmans makes a great sheet cake. And I won’t say no to a Costco cake either.
My wedding cake came from Hy-Vee.
Well, I admit I did get my son's birthday party cake (a cupcake cake, no less) from Wal-Mart this weekend, but it was for 6 year olds who love sickly sweet. It was a volcano with dinosaurs, so that was cool though.
Walmart cakes always make me so sick, I wish I could buy another type of cake anywhere in this big ass country 😔
It's so sad for you Americans that Walmart has decimated the cake ecosystem and natural cakes have gone extinct.
Edit: This is a joke.
My grandpappy told me stories of them cakes, how they roamed free in the buttercream fields. Some say there's still a German chocolate hiding in the PNW, my uncle saw it one time, but that's just legends.
I heard all the German chocolate cakes fled to Argentina.
I'm not really a cake person (ironic since I love to make them) but that particular kind of cake, with its metallicky frosting and weird preternatural fluffiness, I avoid fervently. Which is fine, because then all you do is pass your plate to the next person! It's an office party, Brenda, not a night out with Jay Rayner.
It's a mutually beneficial relationship with the office garbage disposals like me.
Meanwhile they'd be besides themselves if they had any idea just how damn good a Costco cake is