Duncan Hines, Pillsbury Or Betty Crocker
Decorating By gordo21 Updated 1 Aug 2009 , 2:55am by loulou2
I like the pillsbury and bettycrocker, the dark choc. pillsbury to me tastes wonderful, like a homemade choc. cake, love that flavor the best. and I use betty crocker super moist yellow butter cake one too when need too.
Betty Crocker!!! We sort of had to as my Dad worked for 45+ years at General Mills and we weren't allowed the competition in the house. LOL. I haven't tried the other brands but I can tell you that I have always got lots of compliments by family and friends over my doctored chocolate and white cakes.
i like duncan hines. not only are most of their cake mixes trans fat free, but if you look on the box wilton it says "as recommended in wilton method cake decorating schools."
Pillsbury, with Betty Crocker coming in a close 2nd.
I've tried DH, but even with my "doctored" recipes, these come out too light & spongy for any kind of carving/leveling. I prefer a more dense cake for stacking.
i agree with the sponginess making it harder to carve. i use duncan hines for colossal cups because the more dense cakes tend to be too heavy for the cupcake shaping and icing.
i recently started using WASC for stacking and tiering. it's awesome. LOTS of compiments on that recipe! 
I had stopped using Duncan Hines many years ago. To me it tasted different and I didn't like it. I recently tried the butter flavor duncan Hines and it was pretty good. However, I use Pillsburry because I can get it MUCH cheaper than Duncan Hines. The most I pay for Pillsburry is $1 per box and I think Walmart has it even cheaper.
Taught a cake decorating class 4 years ago, in the 1st class I prepare all three brands plus an aldi's brand. They all were yellow cakes. Since I doctor all my cake mix cakes. I prepare them all the same way. They had to sample each brand. To my surprise they chose the Aldi's. Go figure, because I'm a DH lover.
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