Swap the oil for twice the amount of butter, add an extra egg, replace water with whole milk. My aunt went to Paris to be a pastry chef and she swears this trick tastes 98% of the way to those bakery/chefs.
@@CaramelletjeI’m assuming they mean vegetable oil. It’s a fairly common ingredient in boxed cake mixes in the US where I’m assuming OP is from. Butter is more common to use in cake mixes in the UK to begin with (I’m originally from the US, been living in the UK for about 7 years)
@@Caramelletjeif you have no oil you can use butter, no butter? Use oil, its the fats in them that are needed, good tip for any sort of cooking/baking :)
@@ess5431 well maybe its just what ive seen, most of the time if the recipe isnt stated to be from scratch its supplemented with box mix. I don’t honestly see an issue with it, if they arent saying “hey homemade cake from scratch” then all theyre doing is quickening the process. Its just dry ingredients.
The stuff in a box of cake mix is just the portioned out dry ingredients that you’d have to use anyways. I prefer to make from scratch, because I tend to bake fresh fruits/ fresh fruit purées into my cakes and need to use different dry ratios to accommodate the excess moisture, but aside from the pride of putting my own special touch into each formula, a box cake mix isn’t the worst thing in the world and when running a business like making wedding cakes, the emphasis IS largely on the decoration and using box mixes is the most practical way to meet the demand. Lots of bakeries use box mix as a time saver because it is a good base and either build on it or use it because the emphasis is on something other than the cake, like the frosting or decoration. I’d have a bigger issue if a wedding cake decorator used canned frosting than a box mix 😂
Homemade frosting and fillings definitely make it. But I I've never heard of homemade fondant. It tastes crap every way I've had it. They must just roll it out and call it homemade.
@@cassandrareedy7369 some people just don't like fondant, period, you may be one of those people, but I don't doubt the person makes it themselves, it's really not hard to do
Im a baker but i prefer cake decorating. I actually hate the prep part- getting all the ingredients, measuring, doing all the dishes, etc. I just like decorating. But you can make your own cake mixes! Find a recipe you like and just make big batches of the dry ingredients. When youre ready, just weigh out what you need, add the eggs/milk/oil/vanilla like a normal cake, and you're good to go.
Also her saying her cakes "never turn out right" just cant be true. Just look up basic recipes, test out a couple (just small batches), and if you find one you like you can adjust it from there. Especially with favored cakes, you can REALLY tell a difference. Add lemon juice and zest to lemon cakes instead of artificial powdered favoring, and it makes a world of difference. Same with strawberry, just reduce strawberries in a pot with some sugar and add it to vanilla cake, and it tastes like real strawberries instead of fake flavor. But starting off with boxed mixes messes up the future of your business because if you ever decide to make your own cakes, you'll have to explain the price increase.
Honestly give noticed the store-bought frosting and or fillings is the difference between a bad cake and a good cake. You still do the important part lol
box cake is just cake mix. as in just dry ingredients. it's not cheating since you still add the eggs oil and milk in, whisk and bake in the oven. it is however cheating when you buy a plain sheet of a cake then decorate it.
My tattoo artist buys her ink and machines online, but the art she creates with it is all her own. The decorations are why I'm ordering a cake instead of baking one myself. Don't be ashamed.
I am a baker, who loves to bake the cakes- the only problem is I can’t decorate cakes AT ALL, not even do a simple coat of frosting. I am ashamed of myself. 😞
It takes a lot of practice. I’ve baked and decorated TONS of cakes and cupcakes in my life and I’d say only 15% of them actually turn out decent. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes when decorating. It’s the best way to practice and learn. Plus, your mistakes will still taste delicious either way! :)
Ok but Ik the exact mix they’re talking about and it’s so fucking good for absolutely NO reason. Like how the fuck. I also love decorating cakes but just do it as a hobby.
You know good frosting and fondant are not easy to make and if its delicious, thats talent. So you combine the boxed cake with Amazing frosting/fondant and thats worth the price. I'm a frosting person anyway ❤️
Unless you’re lying and saying you’re making it from scratch, you’re fine. You’re not agreeing or disagreeing with them. Most home baking bakers will used boxed cake mix and focus on decorations
I'm not americain, and for me having frosted cake is very rare. We usually only make the cake part, so making it right, moist and flavourfull is very important. Sometimes we'll pour chocolate on top. I always though frosting was just adding some sickening overly sweet paste to a good cake, but now I'm genuinely curious to try.
The pricing should be on the decorating. The taste is important, of course, but special occasions that people will spend to have someone else make, call for the artistic touch
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I feel like this is one of the crucial points to master one thing. If you want to make delicious meals you dont need to learn how to decorate it or vice versa. You dont have to learn everything, all you need to focus your attention to one thing and youll be a master at it
Keep doing what you’re doing. Experiment on the side. Once you get a good recipe, start selling it as a “new cake.” To test audience reception to the recipe. Then, slowly phase out the old fake cakes and replace them with the “real cakes.” And eventually, you’ll feel real. Because of all the work you put into making it your own.
A lot of bakers use mix. Every grocery store is mix. A lot of bakeries use mix. Every Chain cupcake/cake shop use mix. I do mine from scratch. But I'm not big on decorating. My designs are basic and simple. People buy for a variety of reasons. At the end of the day they are buying because you do it better than themselves. Not a career ender.
You can also replace oil/butter & water for applesauce. There are a TON of substitutions when using a boxed cake mix. But making a cake from scratch is not any more difficult than making icing or fondant. 🤦🏽♀️
when it comes to event cakes, the cake itself isn't the focal point, its the decoration. that's what the majority of the charge is for. using box cake mix but making your own frosting is what a good amount of hobby/cottage bakers do, because the ingredients in the cake mix is exactly what you'll make when you mix the dry ingredients together yourself from scratch, it's just a little more fool proof. can frosting and homemade frosting is where things tend to be very noticablely different, and if you're making your own frosting then that's no different than some of the best bakeries in this world
Nothing wrong with that. 90% of people can bake a cake at home... decorating, THAT is something only a few do, and we will gladly pay for a box cake that looks gorgeous for a special occasion
currently its nearly 2:30am ans im ment to be asleep. im not even allowed my phone in my room past 9pm. anyway, i have an arm warmed and while i was listning to this it fell and hit my fan! it was so loud and i thought i had been caught😂
I also make cakes but the thing is that I add a few extra ingredients to the same cake method For example, I like to add extra pudding or flour to make it a little more stable, extra egg, or make a small alteration to the flavor so that it doesn't taste so sweet or not so bitter. Even i Made a vanilia lemon cake with some lemons into the french vanilla
I hate people like this you’re literally ripped people off if they want a cheap cake they can get to Walmart but they get to you so they can support you and you make the cakes in the cheapest way and lie about it baking isn’t even that hard just make sure you Measure the ingredients
as an 11 year old, I use youtube tutorials for it. one time I saw a youtube tutorial and bro the cake was better than the cakes I make frome cake mix. I am the baker of my class now.
Crap, bakeries get the same pillsbury mix in 25/50 pound bags. What you are doing is just good business practice. It is the decoration and art work they are paying for.
I mean as long as the cakes are pretty and alot of work is put into decorating them i dont see a problem, so long as you aren't advertising tbe cakes as homemade or anything like that
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Swap the oil for twice the amount of butter, add an extra egg, replace water with whole milk. My aunt went to Paris to be a pastry chef and she swears this trick tastes 98% of the way to those bakery/chefs.
sounds cool, gonna try that thanks
Oil???
@@CaramelletjeI’m assuming they mean vegetable oil. It’s a fairly common ingredient in boxed cake mixes in the US where I’m assuming OP is from. Butter is more common to use in cake mixes in the UK to begin with (I’m originally from the US, been living in the UK for about 7 years)
@@Caramelletjeif you have no oil you can use butter, no butter? Use oil, its the fats in them that are needed, good tip for any sort of cooking/baking :)
Everything tastes better with real butter.
Alot of bakers do this, unless the recipe is the focus alot of places focus more on decorating and making small adjustments
Whos all?
Every bakery ive worked at makes their own cakes from start to finish.
Maybe this is just an American thing
@@whatsupfuckers4078 It's not, its probably in another state or another country, my aunts LOVE baking cookies, cakes, and more
@@whatsupfuckers4078 Its not an American thing, its a cheap American thing
That's just not true. Most bakers bake their cakes from scratch.
@@ess5431 well maybe its just what ive seen, most of the time if the recipe isnt stated to be from scratch its supplemented with box mix. I don’t honestly see an issue with it, if they arent saying “hey homemade cake from scratch” then all theyre doing is quickening the process. Its just dry ingredients.
Literally took "the cake was a lie" legitimately
To be fair, the icing is FAR more important than the cake mix. Amazing icing can cover a bad cake, but a amazing cake can't cover a bad icing
Word 💯
No. If a cake has a bad consistency, the baker messed up the ingredients or it's overbaked/underbaked even amazing icing doesn't save it.
She just told her secret to the whole of youtube
OR she
@@Celestiallunaryyeah it's a she
Yh but this could literally be anyone and we can’t even agree on the gender so..
Actually it could just be any north American bc we don’t have Walmart in Europe so on that narrows it down a bit😅
Dawg who cares 💀@@Celestiallunary
That proves that the frosting and decor is what people remember.
The stuff in a box of cake mix is just the portioned out dry ingredients that you’d have to use anyways. I prefer to make from scratch, because I tend to bake fresh fruits/ fresh fruit purées into my cakes and need to use different dry ratios to accommodate the excess moisture, but aside from the pride of putting my own special touch into each formula, a box cake mix isn’t the worst thing in the world and when running a business like making wedding cakes, the emphasis IS largely on the decoration and using box mixes is the most practical way to meet the demand. Lots of bakeries use box mix as a time saver because it is a good base and either build on it or use it because the emphasis is on something other than the cake, like the frosting or decoration. I’d have a bigger issue if a wedding cake decorator used canned frosting than a box mix 😂
Homemade frosting and fillings definitely make it. But I I've never heard of homemade fondant. It tastes crap every way I've had it. They must just roll it out and call it homemade.
@@cassandrareedy7369 some people just don't like fondant, period, you may be one of those people, but I don't doubt the person makes it themselves, it's really not hard to do
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Im a baker but i prefer cake decorating. I actually hate the prep part- getting all the ingredients, measuring, doing all the dishes, etc. I just like decorating. But you can make your own cake mixes! Find a recipe you like and just make big batches of the dry ingredients. When youre ready, just weigh out what you need, add the eggs/milk/oil/vanilla like a normal cake, and you're good to go.
Also her saying her cakes "never turn out right" just cant be true. Just look up basic recipes, test out a couple (just small batches), and if you find one you like you can adjust it from there.
Especially with favored cakes, you can REALLY tell a difference. Add lemon juice and zest to lemon cakes instead of artificial powdered favoring, and it makes a world of difference. Same with strawberry, just reduce strawberries in a pot with some sugar and add it to vanilla cake, and it tastes like real strawberries instead of fake flavor.
But starting off with boxed mixes messes up the future of your business because if you ever decide to make your own cakes, you'll have to explain the price increase.
Honestly give noticed the store-bought frosting and or fillings is the difference between a bad cake and a good cake. You still do the important part lol
the cake is a lie
i was looking for this 😂🍰
This isn’t the worst thing ever
box cake is just cake mix. as in just dry ingredients. it's not cheating since you still add the eggs oil and milk in, whisk and bake in the oven. it is however cheating when you buy a plain sheet of a cake then decorate it.
The cake is a lie
It took me too long to find this comment. I'm disappointed in this comment section lol.
@@pattrenemareth7311 huh?
@@saltukbugrahancokuk I was just saying I was disappointed how long it took me to find someone saying the cake is a lie lol
@@pattrenemareth7311 İ see i am happy that you have find it :) and remember the cake is a lie
My tattoo artist buys her ink and machines online, but the art she creates with it is all her own. The decorations are why I'm ordering a cake instead of baking one myself. Don't be ashamed.
I am a baker, who loves to bake the cakes- the only problem is I can’t decorate cakes AT ALL, not even do a simple coat of frosting. I am ashamed of myself. 😞
Same here. There was one time about 15 years ago I managed to successfully decorate a meme cake, I keep that photo with love and pride.
It takes a lot of practice. I’ve baked and decorated TONS of cakes and cupcakes in my life and I’d say only 15% of them actually turn out decent. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes when decorating. It’s the best way to practice and learn. Plus, your mistakes will still taste delicious either way! :)
@@jamiegdubois yeah. I am trying to learn new techniques and ways, but none of the, work. I always thought I was better at baking then decorating.
Ok but Ik the exact mix they’re talking about and it’s so fucking good for absolutely NO reason. Like how the fuck. I also love decorating cakes but just do it as a hobby.
Mixing the box mix is also an a method, some just don't get the right proportions for it
Legit dad is a decorator too. He can bake, it’s just easier to have the stuff premixed.
Tons of people do this
I love these stories! Can't wait for the next story❤
He said nobody else knows it but now almost over 1000 people know about it💀
You know good frosting and fondant are not easy to make and if its delicious, thats talent. So you combine the boxed cake with Amazing frosting/fondant and thats worth the price. I'm a frosting person anyway ❤️
It's giving Max Black, who's secret ingredient is adding a little bit of one type of cake mix to the other lol
Unless you’re lying and saying you’re making it from scratch, you’re fine. You’re not agreeing or disagreeing with them. Most home baking bakers will used boxed cake mix and focus on decorations
I actually use box cake because it’s not as dense and it’s much fluffier than from scratch.
GOOD so many wedding cakes have turned out terrible and this person is out here pulling out Ol Reliable
The customers watching this: 👁️ 👄 👁️
I'm not americain, and for me having frosted cake is very rare. We usually only make the cake part, so making it right, moist and flavourfull is very important. Sometimes we'll pour chocolate on top. I always though frosting was just adding some sickening overly sweet paste to a good cake, but now I'm genuinely curious to try.
The pricing should be on the decorating. The taste is important, of course, but special occasions that people will spend to have someone else make, call for the artistic touch
The person who posted this story: Won’t tell closest friends about secret. Also them: Ok Reddit, CZcams, TikTok, and every other platform this will go on, here’s my secret!
Honestly, people mostly but cakes that expemsive for the quality of the decorations. If the cake dosent look pretty, then it's sold for less
What’s a secret that could ruin your life? *proceeds to go into immense detail for all of the internet to see*
I feel like this is one of the crucial points to master one thing. If you want to make delicious meals you dont need to learn how to decorate it or vice versa.
You dont have to learn everything, all you need to focus your attention to one thing and youll be a master at it
Her clients watching this:
So... the cake is a lie
Keep doing what you’re doing. Experiment on the side. Once you get a good recipe, start selling it as a “new cake.” To test audience reception to the recipe. Then, slowly phase out the old fake cakes and replace them with the “real cakes.” And eventually, you’ll feel real. Because of all the work you put into making it your own.
Never have I felt so much power
Personally my search history
A lot of bakers use mix. Every grocery store is mix. A lot of bakeries use mix. Every Chain cupcake/cake shop use mix.
I do mine from scratch. But I'm not big on decorating. My designs are basic and simple. People buy for a variety of reasons. At the end of the day they are buying because you do it better than themselves.
Not a career ender.
"I feel like such a sham, sometimes" that would be because, you are.
*Womp womp.*
The only WOMP WOMP I will support 😂😂😂
You can also replace oil/butter & water for applesauce.
There are a TON of substitutions when using a boxed cake mix.
But making a cake from scratch is not any more difficult than making icing or fondant. 🤦🏽♀️
their basically paying for the decor not the cake
You just said it💀
when it comes to event cakes, the cake itself isn't the focal point, its the decoration. that's what the majority of the charge is for. using box cake mix but making your own frosting is what a good amount of hobby/cottage bakers do, because the ingredients in the cake mix is exactly what you'll make when you mix the dry ingredients together yourself from scratch, it's just a little more fool proof. can frosting and homemade frosting is where things tend to be very noticablely different, and if you're making your own frosting then that's no different than some of the best bakeries in this world
The cake is a lie!
“What’s your secret?😩💅”
is this the sprinkle cake girl that went viral summer 2023
So you're focused on the payload, not the rocket.
No, I think you will be good even if people found out. I eat cake for whatever it comes with , not the cake itself.
"My whole life is a lie"... just like the cake, then? God damn, I'm old.
Enter me,the 10 year old (11 now) making cakes from scratch when im bored. BBC good food is the way to go.
Nothing wrong with that. 90% of people can bake a cake at home... decorating, THAT is something only a few do, and we will gladly pay for a box cake that looks gorgeous for a special occasion
lol the cake is literally a lie omg
Ur family/friends watching this 👁️👄👁️
currently its nearly 2:30am ans im ment to be asleep. im not even allowed my phone in my room past 9pm. anyway, i have an arm warmed and while i was listning to this it fell and hit my fan! it was so loud and i thought i had been caught😂
Its like my whole life is a lie, dont u mean my whole life IS a lie? Because it is.
Welp millions of ppl are about to know
Sis won in life
Sponge cake is extremely easy and also complete garbage, I don't get how anyone can eat that thing, box mix or not
This has to be an American thing right?
No sane actual business would do this right?
Why is it with you people you assume everything is American? No, this is common almost everywhere you can find cake bakeries
Not American here.. yes, it is normal. People buy those cakes for the decoration... and box cakes are pretty good!
@@osheridan no.. as a confectioner i can assure you that my country doesn’t do this.
Mainly because we do not even have cake mix boxes
The cake is a lie
-portal
I also make cakes but the thing is that I add a few extra ingredients to the same cake method For example, I like to add extra pudding or flour to make it a little more stable, extra egg, or make a small alteration to the flavor so that it doesn't taste so sweet or not so bitter. Even i Made a vanilia lemon cake with some lemons into the french vanilla
"You want some cake?"
"Nah...it's just bugs."
(If you get it you get it)
What type of cake tho…
Dont feel bad. Im told I make the best cupcakes and do exactly the same as you.
Just wait until it’s out of stock (the cake)
Now everyone knows
Everyone knows about the story, nobody knows who told the story
You're a professional cake decorator
The cake is a lie🤫
That’s so wrong bro😭😭
Placebo effect
Whats the effect called? Where you trick someone into thinking its working when its doing nothing?
I hate people like this you’re literally ripped people off if they want a cheap cake they can get to Walmart but they get to you so they can support you and you make the cakes in the cheapest way and lie about it baking isn’t even that hard just make sure you Measure the ingredients
It's not about the cake, it's about who made it. The taste is in the hand not in the box.
90% of a cakes flavor is in the frosting so I wouldn’t feel too bad for charging. Especially if it’s a well decorated cake
So... The cake is a lie?
I don't think so. A lot of bakers do that too. I mean we're paying for what's on the outside mostly anyways
She can't ever get divorced 😅
Most cake businesses do this most people actually know what they don't really care they just only come for the taste and well it's nearby
Packet cake mix is often better than cake mix you make yourself. There has been a LOT of research don't to make the best cake mix.
🤣🤣🤣 That is awesome! People are stupid. Keep doing you.
And the secret ingredient is love
"N o B OdY KnOwS
Him telling all his viewers
The secret that could ruin my life is if my family found out i was lesbian HAHAHA
cakegate flashbacks
as an 11 year old, I use youtube tutorials for it. one time I saw a youtube tutorial and bro the cake was better than the cakes I make frome cake mix. I am the baker of my class now.
Baking and cooking shouldn't be hard just listen to the instructions
Cake from scratch is literally the easiest thing to makw though 😅
It still goes wrong for me 😞
Its the best way to make mony at liest.
Crap, bakeries get the same pillsbury mix in 25/50 pound bags. What you are doing is just good business practice. It is the decoration and art work they are paying for.
cake gate who?
I'm not telling. They're gonna know 🤭😉
I mean as long as the cakes are pretty and alot of work is put into decorating them i dont see a problem, so long as you aren't advertising tbe cakes as homemade or anything like that
Cakegate
Isn’t that all cakes? No one charges for the cake. Always for the decor. So idk why you should feel so guilty about the price.
Mine is lie like bad
Not sure if this is smart or genius
I ges his life is ruind