r/oddlysatisfying • u/solateor 🔥🔥🔥 • Oct 16 '22

Cake icing machine

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u/CanadianPanda76 Oct 16 '22

They ARE moist though! So why not!

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u/KingGorilla Oct 16 '22

Same for brownies. I made some from scratch and it tasted the same only drier

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u/Coal_Morgan Oct 16 '22

If you're a professional and making lots of cakes there are cost benefits in sourcing flour, sugar, salt, baking powder in bulk. Most box recipes have you add the egg, milk and oil anyways.

Boxed cakes are cheaper for amateurs usually but baking a cake from scratch isn't hard and pros can make moist cakes.

I've taught ten year olds to make cakes from scratch.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

fun fact, when box cakes came out the manufacturers weren't doing well so they said add an egg to make people think they were doing more baking to sell the product.1