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- I'm gonna show you 11 tricks to make
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your box cake mix taste homemade.
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At the end, we'll see if professional tasters
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can tell the difference between
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a homemade cake and box cake mix.
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But first, if you haven't subscribed to this channel,
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(lively music)
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When you start with a box cake mix,
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you usually have to add oil, eggs and water.
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Those are our first three.
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Number one, in place of water, use milk.
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This is going to add some richness
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and just make it a little more moist.
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Number two, instead of oil, sub melted butter,
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the same amount.
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We all know that butter equals flavor.
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Number three, eggs.
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The box cake mix usually calls for about three eggs.
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You can just increase the egg by one or two.
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It's just gonna add a little more richness and fluffiness.
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If you don't wanna add a whole egg,
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you can just add the egg yolks for a little more richness,
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or just fold in some extra egg whites to make it fluffier.
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A fourth tip is to use different liquids
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in place of water.
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So you can use something like soda, coffee,
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stout beer; that adds great flavor.
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You can even add juices like orange juice
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to boost the freshness.
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Number five, increase the vanilla.
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A lot of the cakes come with artificial flavoring
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or a little bit of vanilla any way.
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So to just add some real vanilla extract
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would really take it up a notch.
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Tips six, seven and eight are all
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about adding great richness and moisture to your cake.
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The first of those is sour cream.
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This will add some great tang.
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A lot of homemade cakes are made with buttermilk,
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so if you add something like sour cream,
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you're gonna get that same, sort of tanginess,
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but also a lot of richness.
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Next, add dried instant puddings.
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We all know how creamy these can be once they're made,
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so it's gonna deliver the same results into a cake.
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You'll want to mix this in to the dry ingredients
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And don't frown your nose on the next one.
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Add a little mayonnaise, just a couple tablespoons.
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Think about it.
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Mayonnaise is only eggs and oil.
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This is going to deliver one of the most moist cakes ever.
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Tip number nine, customize your cake.
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If you want to add any sort of dried fruit or nuts
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or extra spices like nutmeg to your cake mix, go ahead.
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What's stopping you?
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Number 10 and this is a lot easier than it seems,
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make your frosting from scratch.
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You're already taking a shortcut by using the box cake mix.
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Use the real butter and some powdered sugar
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and you've got a delicious buttercream.
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And finally, be creative with your layers.
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You can brush them with a simple syrup
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or a flavored syrup using some liqueur
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or why not use some store bought curd.
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This is delicious.
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Now that I've told you the 11 ways that you
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can make your box cake mix taste homemade,
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I'm gonna put a few of those to the test.
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I'm gonna take this basic vanilla cake mix
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and I'm going to make a few of the changes.
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Now look, we're not gonna do every single one of them.
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If I add pudding, mayonnaise, sour cream,
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extra eggs and toppings, we're gonna create a disaster.
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But I'm gonna pick a few smart hacks
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and see if I can fool some professional tasters.
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I'm gonna start with my cake mix.
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Instead of my one cup of water,
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I'm going to do one cup of milk.
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Instead of my 1/3 cup of oil,
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I'm going to do a 1/3 cup of melted butter.
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Butter is just, mm, so good.
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All right, I'm going to use the egg tip as well.
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This calls for three regular eggs.
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I'm going to do three eggs and then,
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I think I'm gonna add one extra egg yolk.
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Okay, what else?
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I'm gonna add a little more vanilla
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and I think I'll do one more for richness.
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The homemade cake I'm using does have buttermilk,
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so I think I'm going to do a final addition
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with some sour cream.
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So you can also do this with plain yogurt.
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You'll wanna use 1/3 to about 1/2 a cup.
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Okay, I'm going to divide this into two 8 inch cake rounds
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that I've already greased and floured.
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Gonna pop these in the oven and then,
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we are going side-by-side next to a regular box cake mix
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and then, a homemade cake.
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And we're gonna see who can tell the difference.
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All right, take a look.
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We have three, what seem like, all the same cake.
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But they're not.
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Only I know the difference.
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- They look the same to me.
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They're beautiful.
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- Callie is a portfolio manager here
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at Meredith Food Studios.
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She also is a professional taster.
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- I do taste a lot of food, every day.
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All day, every day.
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- All right, so I've got three cakes here.
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- Okay. - I just need you
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to tell me which one is homemade.
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- Okay. - Which one is homemade?
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- Can do, can do.
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- They all have the same homemade buttercream frosting.
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- Okay, so it's the cake part that I'm analyzing.
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- The cake is what you're analyzing.
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- I can do that.
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I can do that.
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That one looks very tender, Nicole.
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Are they all vanilla?
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- They're all just vanilla.
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- In flavor. - Straight up vanilla.
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- Okay, oh vanilla.
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Looks like it has flecks of vanilla bean.
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- Vanilla bean. - Okay.
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- And let me get you a fork. - Okay, now I need a fork.
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I do need...I might. - Now do you wanna see 'em all, and then.
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- I might, I might wanna look at the texture
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before I dive in. - She'll be able to tell.
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- I might, but without even tasting it, but that's okay.
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That one looks tender, too.
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- [Nicole] So what does tender mean?
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It's just like, that's good. - I don't know,
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it's just sort of soft.
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You can tell, like the structure of the cake.
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You see how, you see how crumbly it is
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and how, when you slide the knife through the frosting,
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it sort of compressed.
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- So that's not great, right?
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- No, it's good, it's good, but cake mixes tend
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to be extra tender.
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- I should've done a blindfolded text.
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- You should have because I--
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- Because she kind of knew.
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- I, well, no, no, no.
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That's okay, it's okay.
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(laughing)
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It's okay, let's see.
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Number one, number one.
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- [Nicole] I'm gonna blind fold the next tester.
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- Okay.
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Mm, that's good.
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I do think it's made from a box.
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I do taste some of that artificial, sort of,
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vanilla flavor that is often in a box cake mix
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Enhanced by these lovely vanilla bean flecks.
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- Well, should I put this out that
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I used vanilla bean paste so we know that I intended
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on having flecks. - Yup.
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- In all three. - In all three,
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to make them appear homemade.
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That was a good trick.
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It was a good trick.
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This one, too, I'm guessing is a cake mix,
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based on the crumb, like we were talking about earlier.
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I do, I do think that's a cake mix.
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But it's interesting how different these two cake mixes are.
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Do you see how that one's so much firmer?
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- I'm learning something.
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Okay, y'all, she already knows.
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Why don't you just go ahead and say that.
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- I do, I do already know.
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Number three is our homemade cake.
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Am I correct? - You're correct.
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- It is delicious.
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All three are delicious.
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- These are both made from a box.
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Of the two boxed cakes, which do you think is better?
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- Oh, I'm gonna have to go back again
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and let's try one more time. - Okay.
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- I'm gonna taste just the cake part.
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- Which boxed cake tastes more homemade?
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- Mm, mm-hmm, let's see.
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All right, I think number one is closer to a homemade.
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- Okay, I'll take that.
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- On texture and flavor, in texture and flavor,
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I think it's a little bit closer than number two.
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- You win! - Yay!
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- You win nothing. - Do I get the cake?
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- You win nothing. - A piece of cake.
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- You can have whichever-- - Two more bites of cake?
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- Yes, so would you like this, the homemade one?
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- I'm good. - All right, next.
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All right, I've brought in
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a second professional taster, Meredith.
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So because I just learned that you can just tell
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the difference in a box cake and a regular cake,
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we're not gonna let you really look at them.
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- Okay. - So she's not studying them.
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- No, not looking at them.
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- We're gonna even do a blindfolded taste test
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to see if you can do this.
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- Okay. - Which, I feel pretty
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confident you're gonna do this.
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- Well, I don't know.
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I'm not a super, super sweet pallette taster like Callie.
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She's the baking side.
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- Well, some people can just tell by texture, so...
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Only one of these three are homemade.
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So if you can just pick out the homemade one.
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- Oh, okay.
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- Okay, I'm gonna put the fork--.
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- I'm a lefty. - Okay.
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- That would make it harder than it already is.
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- Okay, there you go. - Oh god.
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- Yeah, that's kind of a big bite, but,
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there you go, you got it.
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- Okay. - That's cake number one.
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- It's egg-y and I don't know,
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the crumb seemed pretty universal, so, I just.
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I can't make it, but let me have another one.
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- Okay. - To be fair. (laughing)
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- Okay, that's a little smaller.
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- Okay, all right.
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Okay, that one just pretty much disintegrates in your mouth.
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- Which leads you to think what?
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- That it's a-- - It's definitely homemade
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or definitely not homemade.
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- Not homemade.
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Okay. - Here's your final one.
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- I'm going on texture.
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That one's the most dense.
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Okay, I'm gonna say two is definitely box.
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- Yup. - It's between one and three.
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I'm gonna say, can I try one again?
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- Yup, but hold on.
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She's going back in to number one.
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I think number three is homemade.
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- Okay, you can undo your blindfold.
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- Did I win? - You win!
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- All right! - You also win nothing!
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- That's okay. - But, except,
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you have a great reputation for taste testing
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even blindfolded, so--
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- Well, that's good. - So you kind of win.
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- I can keep my job?
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I can keep my job.
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- So at the end of the day,
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real connoisseurs gonna be able to tell the difference
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in a homemade verses a regular.
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But that really wasn't the goal here.
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We were just trying to make a box cake
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taste more homemade, which is number one.
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- Oh, so this one was the blend?
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- Yes! - Oh yeah!
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- That was box cake,
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jazzed up to taste a little more homemade.
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Would you agree that... - Yeah, no, I think--
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- Those tricks kind of worked. - Absolutely, absolutely.
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- Okay. - It's a good substitution.
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- Okay. - And I would
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be pleased with that and knowing that it
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would not be as hard to do, to make--
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- Then we're good. - A birthday cake..
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- I think, mission accomplished.
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Yeah, I mean the hacks work, okay?
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And for our final trick, we have brought in
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not so much a professional taster.
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- Professional eater.
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- But you do enjoy some cake.
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- I do enjoy cake.
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- I'm going to let you guess which one of these
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which one of these is homemade.
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- Okay, all right.
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- You have three to choose from.
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So here's your bite number one.
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- Okay.
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All right.
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That's very good.
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I feel like I'm getting married again, by the way.
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- Well, I don't have to feed you.
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- No, it's okay, I kind of like it.
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- I kind of liked it.
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- Okay, so I'm guessing which one is homemade.
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- Is homemade.
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- Okay, well, crap.
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- Final, final selection.
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- Okay, I'm gonna go with number one.
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- Are you? - Mm-hmm, am I wrong?
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(laughing)
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- You are wrong and I love it!
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Thank you! - Wow, so which one is it?
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- Number three is homemade. - You're kidding me!
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Okay, no, I went with number one.
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Is that good?
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- Number one is a box cake that we hacked
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to taste more homemade.
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- So you jujjed it?
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- So I wanted you to think it tasted homemade.
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- And it did. - Thank you.
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- You're welcome.
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- Now, I think I win.
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(laughing)
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Just call me Betty.
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When it's all said and done, nothing beats homemade,
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but you can definitely trick the average person
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into thinking your box cake is homemade
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if you try one of these 11 tricks.
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They're not going to be able to tell the difference
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between a box cake and a homemade cake
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when you try these 11 tricks.
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Blah.
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Why is this part always so hard for me?
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Nicole shares 11 of the best tricks to making your boxed cake mix taste homemade. We’ll see if professional tasters can tell the difference between a homemade cake and boxed cake mix. Start saving recipes on MyRecipes today: https://auth.myrecipes.com/realms/myrecipes/protocol/openid-connect/auth?client_id=myrecipes&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrecipes.com%2Fauthentication%2Fcode-exchange%3FisMyrecipes%3Dtrue&state=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ3d0VINWtLTnNtejlVaHdZbEt3L0RzNExJN0JOT0Z6a0RDQUdNMkl0Y2ljPSIsInJlZGlyZWN0VXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubXlyZWNpcGVzLmNvbSIsImlzcyI6IkRvdGRhc2ggTWVyZWRpdGgiLCJleHAiOjE3Njk2MDIxMjEsImlhdCI6MTc2OTU5OTQyMSwiaGlkZUNvbmZpcm1hdGlvbkJhbm5lciI6ZmFsc2V9.h1Pchuva2MFRy5wVUYVOj9ElsFzzF9oC439uHcTiGdQ&scope=openid&reg_source=8tn4p0 0:00 Introduction 0:18 Ditch the Water 0:32 Butter is Better 0:41 Up Your Eggs 1:02 Swap in Coffee 1:14 Increase Your Vanilla 1:25 Add Some Sour Cream 1:45 Break Out the Instant Pudding 1:56 Try Some Mayonnaise 2:10 Customize Your Cake 2:21 Make Your Frosting From Scratch 2:33 Get Creative with the Layers Check out this article for 11 Ways to Make Boxed Cakes Taste Homemade: https://www.myrecipes.com/how-to/make-boxed-cake-taste-homemade Here’s the homemade cake recipe we used, the only difference is to substitute vanilla for almond extract: https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/ultimate-vanilla-cake-batter Ingredients 2 cups sugar 1 cup butter, softened 3 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 cups cake flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup buttermilk How to Make It Step 1 Beat sugar and butter at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy and fluffy (about 5 minutes). Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until yellow disappears after each addition. Beat in vanilla bean paste and almond extract. Step 2 Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl; add to sugar mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at medium-low speed just until blended after each addition. (Batter will be thick.) Use immediately. Subscribe to MyRecipes ►►https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBsi0gbfoSsuczN8rUM5P2Q?sub_confirmation=1 CONNECT WITH MyRecipes Web: https://www.myrecipes.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/My_Recipes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser ABOUT MyRecipes MyRecipes.com features the largest collection of professionally-tested recipes online from food experts at the magazines and cookbooks you love and trust--including Cooking Light, Southern Living, Sunset, Coastal Living, Real Simple, and more. 11 Pro Secrets to Making Boxed Cakes Taste Homemade | Can Food Professionals Tell the Difference?

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    • conversion speed depends on the resolution and duration of the video.

    Warning: this download method no longer works with most YouTube videos.

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