I just got an email from my Dawn rep (wholesale supplier). He meant to send it to one of the biggest cake places in one of the biggest cities in the country.  Somehow, I got sent a copy of the whole thing and they were frantic that Dawn was out of a couple of flavors of cake mix. Btw, these are the kinds of mixes you only add water and oil to. Not even eggs...

I'd never say the name, but i got a kick out of it. I honestly thought they were all scratch.

ASay it! You will feel much better if you get it off your chest.

You would probably be better off not saying which bakery because who knows what they would do if their secret cake mixes were revealed!!! They might be the type to come after you with a lawsuit!! You just never know.

howsweet:  just a little hint.......sound like........rhymes with........starts with X ends with Y.

you can tell us, I just bought two boxes of yellow cake mix for holiday cupcakes.

I'll make up for it with a batch of SMBC and Modeling chocolate decorations.

you can PM the name and I'll say it. I'm not in the US so they can suck it their potential lawsuit. 

And this matters because???  So what if they use mix.  Unless they are bragging on their website about being scratch bakers, is it really a big deal?

AIf it was Buddy I think everyone already knows they use Dawn mixes.

If it was Charm City I would probably be a little surprised but I think they count as one of the places where the looks trump the taste.

If it's Georgetown then I am shocked since they have a book of recipes out, and I use a lot of them!

Buddy promotes cake mix made by Dawn.  It goes to show mix or not you can be famous and loved.

My guesses:

Ron Ben Israel

or

Sylvia Weinstock

I would be mildly surprised if these two were using mixes, but not completely. I think their cakes/clients are much higher in status than Buddy V's.

Actually, I expect a bakery like his (Buddy V) to use mixes. I don't consider Buddy V to be swish at all.

idk--last i knew sylvia doesn't even hardly use flower cutters--makes my fingers hurt thinking about it ;)

to me cake is the canvas for splash, fillings and frostings--

it's more important to me that the cake part of the equation has the performjance i want:

hold well, come to room temp with the best texture, cut and serve clean, not dry out after it's cut sitting out at room temp 

would be pretty funny if it was ron--it can't be ron

I would offer your info to the press, for sale of course...quite valuable information when in the right hands! When you've done that, come back and post the link to the news story so we can all see 

Must be a pretty good product if you couldn't tell the difference.......

I worked at a "production" bakery...and they knew a lot about other bakeries.   "Most" production bakeries do not bake from scratch.   They are about volume and "production".   You would be surprised who uses the bulk mix.  No biggie to me.

AAt the last bakery I worked for, our white and chocolate cake were mix, but other flavors (red velvet, carrot, etc.) were scratch.

There's a guy in town here who goes to Walmart in the middle of the night to buy buttloads of cake mix. I know this because I gossip with the cashiers there.  This same guy tells everyone that he bakes from scratch, even though anyone with a palate can tell that he doesn't.

AIs that the French bakery on Cary Street?

Is that place still there, even?

AGodot, you're in VA? Hi neighbor!

Oh yes before I started my cake baking hobbie I use to other cakes from a coworker until I saw her in the local supermarket shopping for cake mix no one can fool me now I know how to do some tasty cakes I never did baking only catering but now am retired and I like baking and it comes out natural.

A

Not any more! But you can be my neighbor, hahahaha!

AYeah I knew we were neighbors! I need to come down for a visit!

AYES! I'm on my way. Make sure you have some Dr. Pepper on hand because Geoff likes a sip of it every now and then. :)

I bake from scratch but I will admit, I really like boxed vanilla cake, lol.