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welcome back to how to cake it I can see your faces and I know you're wondering what's about to happen what's going on with yo so today I thought I would test out some cake mixes I've gathered a bunch some of these I can't buy in Canada so on some of my trips I picked them up and today I'm going to compare them all so I have a Pillsbury yellow cake mix Betty Crocker who I talk about in my yearbook Duncan hindes the Duncan hindes Dolly Parton mix I'm very excited this is a Canadian brand President's Choice and this is a Madagascar bourbon vanilla cake this one seems like it's the boug like look at the box and then this is Trader Joe's celebration cake and you know how people feel about
Trader Joe's to be extra fair I'm going to make all of these with a hand mixer and I'm also going to bake in a household oven there's an oven here not my professional oven that I usually bake in okay so cake mix one I've placed the cake mix in a bigger bowl got my hand mixer half a cup of water half a cup of oil three eggs they all go in and then I mix for 2 minutes but before I start this is like a fight cuz I'm really trying to draw you guys out I want to preheat my oven so I'm going to walk over there and turn it to 350 I'm pretty sure that yes 350 I have 2 8 in pens I have a circle of parchment at the bottom of each but since it's cake mix I am going to grease the sides so I'm just
using like a silicone brush Ooh La half a cup of water half a cup of oil and then three eggs okay it looks smooth well Incorporated so now I can pour this batter evenly between two pens I'm very tempted to get my scale but I'm going to eyeball it and then I'm going to use my scale just to see stop now I'm going to do what I do with all my cakes I'm going to bake it half the time will pop in rotate and then the rest of the time so next up I have actually I have some news uh I've sustained an injury it's nothing serious I scraped my wrist on the side of the table but I'm going to persevere number two ding this is Betty Crocker super moist so it's not Supreme moist it's super moist yes as soon as the moisture hit the
powder they started to appear so I think it will become more golden and yellow as I mix I'm going to add the eggs here we go 2 minutes medium speed okay then so it's time to divide all right number three ding is Duncan heim's perfectly moist French vanilla now I don't know what's better supremely moist super moist or perfectly moist so I'm moving on to Dolly I'm sorry ma'am for placing you in this order in the roster you should have been first this is Dolly Parton's favorite coconut cake it is a collab with Duncan hindes and for this mix I need the mixture 1 and 1/2 cups of milk four eggs look at Dolly and 10 tablespoons of butter I like this already it's just getting more luxurious okay now we're moving on to
cake mix number five already and this is PC or President's Choice this is a Canadian brand and for this mix we need the mix a cup of milk two eggs and a half a cup of melted unsalted butter and this mix requires me to mix it for 1 and 1 half minutes I told you this one was bougie this batter is the lightest in color but it feels the heaviest okay last but not least it's the Trader Joe celebration cake this one has little Flex of color inside and it requires the pouch 3/4 of a cup of milk two eggs egg and then a half a cup of oil oh this one just says oh something new let me give you the teeth so this one says whisk eggs and then whisk in the milk and oil until it's uniform and then pour the cake mix on top and whisk
in okay you can see that it's a celebration already this batter feels the thinnest everyone we're back if you remember I baked a bunch of different cake mixes and I also want to let you know that I purposely froze them for 3 days cuz I also wanted to see how they would hold up now I'm going to remove each one level them and taste them this is very serious work so first up is Pillsbury moist Supreme um you can definitely get a 1 in or two 1 in layers it's going to work out cuz I'm going to taste the hum it's definitely a yellow cake the cake is very moist I'm not the biggest fan of like artificial vanilla I think it's nice I'll give it a seven but we're going to move on to the next one super moist
golden cake okay it's left less yellow than the Pillsbury it does have a more even crumb there's less air pockets than the Pillsbury you know I smacked talk Betty in my earbook so I've got to be fair though oh this is less sweet but it's also less less tasty if that makes any sense I don't taste as much of the fake vanilla but I also don't taste anything that replaces that so I'd say that this is a very neutral cake and would take well to a lot of flavors in the middle I might have to give Betty a six oh no people are going to think it's because of our lifelong Feud I will say by the looks of it's not as golden on the outside this is French vanilla so it doesn't claim to be golden or yellow in anyway
Duncan look at you yeah it's it's much fairer on the inside okay Pillsbury has the most flavor but this is second so far the sponge on this is really nice it's less sort of doughy I don't know if that's the right word I think I give Duncan a six as well I'm so sorry guys we're moving on to Dolly now In fairness this is a collaboration with Duncan Hines and Miss Dolly Parton let's see what Dolly has done for Duncan this feels sturdier already it also feels like a larger layer this cake is coconut flavor I
couldn't find a vanilla or a golden so I got the closest option it's very subtle but I can see how if you pair this with like a coconut buttercream and coconut it would all go very well together I like that it has more body am I going to be A5 girl I'm going to be an 8.5 girl so now we're at the Canadian brand PC or President's Choice let's see this is the only one where I see evidence of like vanilla bean paste but let's see how it tastes I think this one is the least moist it's not bad I just I think I had higher hopes just because of the vanilla seeds oh I feel bad I have I'm going to give this a low rating this is like a six and I think I'm being nice actually cuz I could give this a
five sorry next up we have Trader Joe's this is a celebration cake so this is the only one that has sprinkles inside there's a flavor I don't like and I think it might be the sprinkles and there isn't enough of another flavor to over power that this one tastes the least like a mix doesn't have the usual fake vanilla it also surprisingly has sort of the most realistic color I'm I have to say I'm shocked I'm going to give this a five wow okay I'm not going to lie I'm a little worried about syruping these cakes because they're on the delicate side so I'm going to give it a light simple syruping each cake is going to have one of each layer
crumb coat this cake I have little bits of butter cream that I had in the freezer and what I think I'm going to do is use the teal and white as the base for the candy cake and then I'm going to use purple and pink as the base for the chocolate cake so I have enough teal here I go I need to ice the cake but it does not have to be iced to Perfection you will rarely hear me say that and now I'm going to ice some white here and there over the teal I'm going to start with purple first and layer some pink over top so I've been seeing these cakes trending where they're just covered in candy or chocolate or cookies and that's what I'm going for and I just went to the bulk store and picked out anything fun and now I'm going to have fun so I
figured I'd just maybe go in with the bigger ones and then I can fill in oh my God I feel so free oh look at that pattern I'm going to use it to my advantage right now I'm thinking it would be perfect I think maybe on top some things should stand I have cotton candy and I forgot so I want to add just a little puff of it to the candy cake you think it'll stand I want it to oh no look at that Trader Joe's cake just like buckling okay sorry you have to lay Dolly and Dolly is the official winner so if anyone knows Dolly Parton contact her and let her know cuz I don't think she has many awards and she probably wants this award tell me if I should do this again with different flavors I mean I could try chocolate I could give it a
try I would do that for you now I'm going to eat all the caramel corn off cake off camera I'll see you next week
