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 Great Gluten Free baking mix October 30, 2009
Shaye Rosch (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
This cake mix worked out really well. I made cupcakes for my sister's birthday, she's GF. What she really really wanted was a yellow butter cake with chocolate icing. We've had not great success with other GF baking mixes, but I thought with Betty Crocker's reputation I would definitely give this a try. The texture was really close - I'm not sure that anyone who didn't know up front that it was gluten free would have noticed anything off.
I will say that the taste of the cake by itself wasn't quite up to par with the "gluten-full" yellow cake mix of theirs. But it was definitely a success.
I may add butter extract to try to replicate the taste of the regular cake mix.
 Cake mix October 27, 2009
Steven C. Downing (Tampa, Fl)
Excellent, made cup cakes and tasted just like I remember, ordered a case of the devils food.
 Could Be Better... October 15, 2009
Emily Rich (Tucson, AZ)
First of all, I do want to thank Betty Crocker for creating cake mixes for those of us who are gluten-intolerant. That said, I was a little disappointed with the yellow cake mix. The cake was dry and had a slightly spongy texture. I also did not find that the flavor was as rich as it might have been. I was also put off by the use of a stick of butter and I checked the Betty Crocker website to see if they had options for a lower fat version. Nope! In fact, they warned that the mix should not be altered. Another disappointment is that the mix only makes one 9X9 layer, so, making a layer cake becomes very expensive. I did make a half-way decent bundt cake (though not very high) by adding an extra egg, milk instead of water, 1/2 cup brown sugar, and a package of lemon pudding. It was fairly moist and very tasty, especially with the addition of a vanilla glaze. I will continue to experiment with the mix just for the sake of convenience, but, I will not make the basic cake again.
 Not Very Good October 13, 2009
L. Saavedra (NC USA)
I have tried other cake mixes and this is one I will not buy again. Coming from a mother of a 2 year old son with Celiac, this was not a hit with him. He ate half a cupcake and didn't want anymore. I taste tested myself and it was gritty, bland,dry and became even more dry and gritty the next day. I made this mix a year ago before I found out my son also has an intolerance to soy. I now purchase pamelas chocolate cake mix which he loves and it doesn't have any soy. Pamelas also has frosting which you can make into buttercream which is also soy free.
Betty Broke My Heart October 4, 2009
Marianne O. Schmidt
Oh Betty, you vixen, you flirt, you tart! I longed for you all summer long, but Betty, you are all show and no go. You promised me the moon and the stars and great taste but you gave me a ghost town in the dessert. You are pretty, Miss Betty, but you are dry and spongy. I had the feeling that I could bounce you across the floor, and then wash the dishes with your silken sponginess. I tried making this cake twice Ms. Crocker, and both times, I was less than enchanted. I did not live happily ever after. My gluten-eating husband ate the first cake, and he loved the taste and texture too, and the fact that it wasn't crumbly and annoying. I gave Betty high marks for that too; most gluten free products leave you feeling like Hansel and Gretel in the forest, with a trail of crumbs. I used this mix for cupcakes the first time. The second time I baked a cake and frosted it, thinking that if I under-baked it for a shorter time, at a lower temperature, that I would finally feel the love. Sadly, I did not. I still found the texture too spongy, and the cake too dry. I ended up tossing the cake out. I do however recommend the chocolate cake highly. It compared favorably to my favorite homemade gluten-free cake. The brownies were also pretty good, and I have bought both the brownie and chocolate cake mixes more than once. I am hoping that Miss Betty gets it together and improves this formula. The price point is excellent for this line, but I just am not loving yellow Betty. In general, the line is superior to most of the commercially available mixes. I would recommend using yellow Betty for cupcakes, because you can freeze them and frost and eat them one at a time, or toss them one at a time. The texture is definitely better the second and third day, but the first day left me annoyed, both times. When Marie Antoinette was sent to the guillotine for saying "Let them eat cake," it was probably a cake very similar to this one. She deserved death for that, I say. I would not have been the first or last citizen to scream, "Keel zee beetch, Crockaire!"
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