I just bought both books the regular & the chocolate one. I plan on using both for the basic foundation for my wedding cake company. However I just read someone say on the Wilton site that she recently made some & they were dry and not flavorfull. I am a little freaked out now. PLease let me know your input.
Thanks in advance

I love the Cake Doctor. They are very flavorful and not at all dry. I mainly use her recipes and I even sell cakes. In fact just the other day one man told me that my cake was very good and that he could tell it wasn't from a box. I almost said..."Wanna bet?" but I just smiled and thanked him for his compliment. My favorite book from her is acutally the cupcake one though. I use those recipes the most, even for regular cakes. I haven't tried every recipe, of course, but I have yet to have a bad one. I would highly reccomend them. I also like 101 Things to Do with a Cake Mix and 101 More Things to Do with a Cake Mix. They don't have quite as many cakes, but there are some great ideas in those. Both books are around $10 a piece.

Oh yeah, those are my cake baking bibles!! I don't see how it was possible for anyone to make a dry cake with any of those recipes. They are wonderful!!!

I also love some of her cakes, but I had bad luck with her carrot cake It was awful!

There was a thread a while back about someone on a mission to bake every cake in the CMD book and posted pics and reviews. It was a great thread. I will look for it......

found it..

http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-4089-cmd.html

It has some great info for anyone interested in the book

I love her recipes. I haven't come across a bad one yet! I've made the red velvet cake, Devil's Food, Milk Chocolate Chip Cherry Pound Cake, the Italian Cream and many others that I can't name right now. I have both books and would highly recommend them!

I haven't had a bad cake from the Cake Mix Doctor collection. I haven't tried all of them, but the ones I have tried turned out great and everyone that has tasted them has loved them. Everyone that I know that bakes a little, and tastes one of the cakes I made says it tastes like I made it from scratch. The ones that don't bake, just say how delicious it is.

I have her original book, The Cake Mix Doctor, which stated that most of the cake mixes she used didn't contain pudding. Which brands don't contain pudding, because it seems like most of the ones at the supermarket have pudding? For everyone who's been using her recipes, which cake mixes have you been using?

Good old DH..its the only cake mix I have found without pudding in it.

I use DH, usually; I don't buy the mixes with pudding already in it. I prefer to add my own pudding mix because the cakes seem to rise higher.

I love the cake mix dr., too! Every recipe I've tried has been wonderful and everyone says the cakes taste great and moist. I also use DH mixes for my base. My favorite recipe is the Snickerdoodle cake....just got the cupcake dr. book and am loving it, too! It's got some cute cupcake decorating ideas.

I have tried two recipes out of the cakemix doctor. I personally thought they were dry, compared to my normal cakes i make, however those were the two favorite cake that my co-workers liked. They thought they were really really moist. So i guess it all depends on your taste and what you're used too =)

Leily

Even though the cake doctor says to use the mix without pudding, I've found it too dry -- I always use Pillsbury with any of her recipes, and it turns out great! My in-laws are INSANELY crazy over her Banana Cake with Quick Caramel Frosting. They think I'm some sort of kitchen magician

LOVE the cake mix doctor!!!!!!! I think her cakes are great but I mostly use her ideas for frostings and fillings-- and all of the tips. Its my most used cookbook by far!! :O)

Every cake I have tried from her books have been wonderfull. Never had one be dry.

I need to make a german choc cake this week...has anyone tried her recipe?

I've made her german chocolate cake quite a bit. Very moist and delicious!!!

this is the one where you ADD the canned frosting to the batter..and make it in a bundt pan. can this cake be made into a layer cake and then frost it?

Some people can mess up a cake mix. If you bake it too long, it will come out dry and tasteless- so maybe the person that posted that didn't bake it properly.

I also like the cake doctor. I've tried many of the recipes. Everyone's favorite seems to be the darn good chocoloate cake in my family.