Selling Cake Mix Cakes

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Apurvabhutada Posted 17 May 2019 , 9:00pm
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While running your cake business from home, How many of you bakers openly say you make cakes from cake mix?

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-K8memphis Posted 17 May 2019 , 10:50pm
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I would say that I used the best ingredients for the job — to me, white cake mix was the best for tier cakes which the majority of my weddings were white cake that I doctored white cake mix for -/

to me it was best to avoid the whole cake mix versus scratch thing at point of sale — typically that discussion brings nothing but trouble -

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SandraSmiley Posted 18 May 2019 , 1:34am
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I use doctored cake mixes and lots of scratch recipes both.  It would never enter my mind to tell the customer my recipe, one way or another.  They don't care, as long as it is delicious.

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kakeladi Posted 18 May 2019 , 1:37am
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With K8   Can’t remember the subject coming up—probably did —just don’t remember it   Since I eventually had 2 different bakeries  over many years seldom did it ever come up   Since I developed the WASc recipe I just said something along the lines of “I start w/a mix then add lots of love & delicious ingredients “     Can’ t recall anyone not ordering because of using mixes 

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MerMadeBakedGoods Posted 18 May 2019 , 1:53am
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I agree with all of the above. I do a lot of both and never thought to bring it up... it’s always just the best recipe for the type of cake they order. So far,  I’ve never had anyone ask, complain, or be able to tell the difference :).

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ypierce82 Posted 19 May 2019 , 3:51am
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I do a doctored mix for my white cake, and scratch for everything else. If I'm not asked, I don't bring it up. If someone were to ever ask, I would be honest about it. No one has ever cared enough to ask because the WASC is sooooooooooo good!

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