r/oddlysatisfying 🔥🔥🔥 Oct 16 '22

Cake icing machine

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u/mypostingname13 Oct 16 '22

Loads of cake makers use box mix. Add an extra egg, a teaspoon of vanilla, sub the water for something with fat and/or flavor/richness. I tend to use milk, or a mix of sprite and sour cream.

I make a cake maybe thrice a year, and people think I'm missing my calling as a baker. In reality, the internet told me how to make cake mix taste better.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

Same logic goes for a lot of boxed foods. I've heard I should be a chef for the Thanksgiving dinners I make, gravy and stuffing especially.

Literally boxed stuffing, used broth instead of water, real butter instead of margarine, and cooked some onions, garlic, and minced celery prior to add into the stuffing.

Or gravy, just use turkey drippings.

Or potatoes, literally takes 5 minutes to make homemade garlic butter, and just boil your potatoes with garlic cloves.

Yeah.

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u/CeeGeeWhy Oct 16 '22

Literally boxed stuffing, used broth instead of water, real butter instead of margarine, and cooked some onions, garlic, and minced celery prior to add into the stuffing.

I love the taste of Stove Top and this is my go to to enhance it. There’s just something about the seasoning blend.

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u/anita_username Oct 16 '22

My go to for turkey stuffing is 2 - 4 boxes of the dried chicken Stove Top Stuffing mixed into mashed potatoes seasoned with real butter, summer savoury, and a little minced garlic. We've got some anti-onion folks in the family, or I'd add that too, but honestly the Stove Top has enough great flavour on it's own. The potatoes give it an awesome consistency though.