Tumblr Thread: State Champion Baker Dishes Out Tips

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mattstaff
Apr 25, 2020 6:00 PM EDT

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    Text - docholligay Coming from a state champion baker: If y'all use a decent box mix and use melted butter instead of vegetable oil, an extra egg, and milk instead of water, no one can tell the difference. I sure as hell can't. Also, if you add a little almond extract to vanilla cake, or a little coffee to chocolate cake, it sends it through the roof. This concludes me attempting to be helpful.
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    Text - l Verizon ? 9:56 PM 67% shedoesnotcomprehend Nice seeing this going around again! My standard cake is box mix + milk for water + melted butter for oil + dash vanilla extract + frosting from scratch. This really seems to hit the right spot for people of "mmm, homemade" but also "exactly like Mom used to make." (Do that for a yellow cake with chocolate buttercream frosting, add candles, and serve to a college student, for the maximum "this is exactly what I didn't want to admit I wanted" po
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    Text - Chocolate chips can be dumped straight into chocolate cake mix without fussing with anything to compensate. Sprinkles can go into white cake mix to make your own "confetti cake" with any specific color combo you like. Any kind of dried fruit can be chopped to raisin- size, soaked in hot water (or, better yet, hot juice with a couple of citrus peels added) for an hour, drained, and then added to batter. Replacing part (up to maybe 1/3) of the water with yogurt (and then the rest with milk
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