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at some of the Macey's grocery stores.
Both books include recipes for doctoring cakes by adding pudding, extra butter, eggs, chocolate, extracts, spices and dried or canned fruit. Besides cakes, there also are recipes for using a cake mix to make cookies, fruit crisps, cheesecakes and even a gingerbread house.
The popularity of Byrn's book, which spent several weeks on national best-seller lists, speaks to today's harried cooks who yearn for the baked goods of their youth, but who lack energy and time. "Baking need not be an ordeal calling for a multitude of pans, an open calendar and a refrigerator stocked with gourmet ingredients," wrote Byrn. "It can take place on the spur of the moment with a cake mix and a modest pantry."
But when it comes to frosting the cake, she always shares her mother's advice: "You can get away with baking a cake from a mix," Byrne wrote, "but you absolutely must make homemade frosting."
Baker Mills is tapping into the same trend.
Winterton said the Kodiak Cakes mix, which is sold in more than 500 supermarkets and specialty shops, is always on hand so she can make hot cakes and waffles for her family.
"But one day, I just started making other things with it," she said.
So far Winterton has come up with more than a dozen recipes for everything from cookies and cakes to muffins and scones- all of which use 1 to 2 cups of the mix. The recipes, which were tested at high altitudes, are available on the company Web site at www.kodiakcakes.com.
"Bisquick pancake mix has always been used for other things," Winterton said, adding that customers are more likely to buy the mix "if it can be used for other things."
The Salt Lake City based Baker Mills bills its Kodiak Cakes as more wholesome |
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