Monday
01Feb2010
Gluten-Free Essentials: Extreme Chocolate Cake Mix - Episode 49
Monday, February 1, 2010 at 12:05AM Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)
Monday, February 1, 2010 at 12:05AM
Reader Comments (4)
I watched with interest about your review of Gluten Free Essentials chocolate cake mix. If you did not make the cake according to the directions how can you say it doesn't work right. I have made this cake many times and use a 9x13 pan, it does raise and fill the pan. It is not a brownie that is why you need the 1 cup of water, not 1/2 cup and somekind of liquor there is a difference. You also said the applesause was used for liquid it is used to replace some of the oil. Someone seeing this review is going to think this is a bad product which is not true, I respectfully disagree with this review.
Thanks for your feedback. I am interested in trying this cake mix again, following the recipe precisely, and seeing if we end up with a different result. If we do that, we'll post a follow-up review. --Mike
I agree with the first person who commented on this review. I, too, have made this cake many times. I t is a favorite in our hourse, and is our cake for Birthdays. And it does make an 9x13 cake! Soft, fluffy like a cake and very moist with wonderful taste. You can't tell the difference between a regular wheat cake mix and this one.
I follow the directions as they are written, without making any changes or substitutions, and I have had wonderful success.
If you use the lliquor in your brownines, why would you put it in a cake, then complain it tastes llike a cross between a cake and a brownie? And if you have made these changes, then have to 'over-bake' it, why you complain about the time it takes to bake and the fact that you dried out the top? Why hot try putting a loose piece of foil over it at that point. Honey, you haven't baked cakes as long as I have!
Any how do you feel it is a fair review when you decide that you know better than the manufacturer and you choose to change the directions? Then you bad-mouth the product. That's not a fair review at all.
It's clear that we need to review this one again--following the recipe verbatim--and that's what we're going to do. Thanks for the honest feedback, everyone.