Betty Crocker Baking Mix, Gluten Free Cake Mix, Yellow, 15 O

It's a great product and one of the original GF version on offer that tastes like cake. With a few practical additions (use milk instead of water and increase the butter to 1 full half stick) it will pass for cake or cupcakes in nearly any setting. However, it is rice and starch not wheat so plan to use it quickly because upon refrigeration, even well covered, it will become dry and stale within about 72 hours or less typically. If you freeze them right away and serving seal they will last for months but have to be nuked when they come up to room temp. Tends to crumble easily because its GF. It has ZERO fiber so we add our own ground oat flour (about a half cup) to it and increase the liquids by a half cup. It reduces the guilt of eating pure starch and won't hit the blood sugar so hard.

I use both the chocolate and yellow mix as a base for gluten free baking. I do stir in additives to make it taste better. I went and looked up things to add to basic cake mixes to make them taste better and now I add pudding mix depending on cake flavor, add'l eggs, or could use applesauce, sour creme, vanilla or almond extract, substitute any oils with butter and lactose free milk for water or strong coffee for chocolate cake. I am sensitive to Guar gum and Xantham gum so am hoping they will start using healthier thickners soon. I always use psyllium husks or flax meal instead of Guar gum. Do not use any red mill products. All the flours and other products they make just aren't really very good.Pillsbury makes wonderful gluten free cake mixes especially their confetti cake. Their cost varies here in the $3-4 range, and haven't been able to get them on Amazon yet, only in my local store.

First of all, I do want to thank Betty Crocker for creating cake mixes for those of us who are gluten-intolerant. That said, I was a little disappointed with the yellow cake mix. The cake was dry and had a slightly spongy texture. I also did not find that the flavor was as rich as it might have been. I was also put off by the use of a stick of butter and I checked the Betty Crocker website to see if they had options for a lower fat version. Nope! In fact, they warned that the mix should not be altered. Another disappointment is that the mix only makes one 9X9 layer, so, making a layer cake becomes very expensive. I did make a half-way decent bundt cake (though not very high) by adding an extra egg, milk instead of water, 1/2 cup brown sugar, and a package of lemon pudding. It was fairly moist and very tasty, especially with the addition of a vanilla glaze. I will continue to experiment with the mix just for the sake of convenience, but, I will not make the basic cake again.

Truthfully not fond of this product. Tried making it different ways according to the box instructions, cake comes out very dry and dense no matter what. Not at all close to other Betty Crocker products and I know it's gluten free but I've tried other products that are great in taste and holds up well. Unfortunately, I didn't find this to be true with this product

Very bummed when I received the box of cake mixes. I ordered these because there is no corn listed in the ingredients. The boxes that arrived all have corn starch listed. Now I cannot use them and have to pay to return them.