Anyone else notice that since Duncan Hines created their new and more expensive Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix, their Dark Chocolate Fudge cake mix now looks like a much lighter Devils Food mix? I think they're trying to force us to buy the newer (much more expensive) product instead. Darn it. I add additional cocoa powder but it's still not as dark as the original.

I have noticed the same thing. Thought I was imagining it.

I hope that's not the case

Funny, I look at the boxes and try to decide what's the difference between Devil's Food and Dark Chocolate cake boxes every time I'm at the store!

I have noticed the same thing!! so not happy about it

Don't use box mixes myself, but couldn't you try adding a couple teaspoons of instant coffee to both darken the cake and punch up the chocolate flavor. My scratch chocolate cake recipe calls for coffee and it gives the cake a much darker color as well as punching up the flavor, and you don't even taste the coffee.

You can also throw in some additional cocoa powder to deepen the chocolate.

Ditto on noticing...and the taste...eww...even doctored I could still taste that it had a "box" base.
Time to find a new chocolate base!

I just emailed duncan hines about this, hopefully they will get back to me