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Chose a boxed cake mix over scratch for my daughter's 6th birthday and the guests honestly couldn't tell
I've baked from scratch for years, so when my daughter asked for a chocolate cake with buttercream for her party in Riverside, I planned to do it all from scratch like normal. Then the night before, I looked at the clock, it was already 9pm, and I had 24 guests coming at noon, so I grabbed a $2 box of mix from the pantry as a backup plan. I ended up using the mix for the cake layers and still made my own buttercream, and I told exactly one person, my sister. Four different parents asked me for the cake recipe, and I had to stand there and admit it came from a box while my sister just laughed. Now I keep wondering if the frosting was always doing the heavy lifting in my bakes and I never gave it credit. Has anyone else done the box-mix switch and felt weirdly guilty about it, or is that just me?
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the_derek20d ago
Four parents asked for the recipe and you had to look them in the eye and say “box mix”? I would have taken that secret to the grave, honestly. But the part that really got me is that your sister just stood there laughing while you confessed, that’s a true sibling move right there. Here’s the thing though, you still made the buttercream from scratch, so you didn’t fully cheat, you just let Betty Crocker handle the boring part. Your frosting theory is probably dead on, because people remember the soft sweet outside way more than the sponge inside. Next time just say “family recipe” and walk away with your head high.
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