Harris Teeter Cake Mixes

[Bdoon]

Hello All

Does anyone remember the Harris Teeter cake mixes. They were so superior to Duncan Hines and Betty Crocker in taste and then, about 2 years ago, HT just removed them from the shelves. I am not much of a baker but when I made these, which were good even without frosting, my kids, wife and whoever was with us commented on them.

Also, why do people keep recipes secret?
I worked with a lady who, using her grandmother's recipe, made the best cake (pound cake) that I ever tasted and I have eaten cake in France. Unbelievably good but different, so different. She would not give me the recipe. Said she promised her grandmother never to reveal. OMG and WTF !

She would bring me a cake at Christmas but that only enraged me. I offered to pay her and she stopped bringing me cakes at Christmas. Why would her grandmother wish to keep a recipe secret. Kinda like the Nieman Marcus cookie thing

Bdoon
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[Norcalbaker59]

Hello All

Does anyone remember the Harris Teeter cake mixes. They were so superior to Duncan Hines and Betty Crocker in taste and then, about 2 years ago, HT just removed them from the shelves. I am not much of a baker but when I made these, which were good even without frosting, my kids, wife and whoever was with us commented on them.

Also, why do people keep recipes secret?
I worked with a lady who, using her grandmother's recipe, made the best cake (pound cake) that I ever tasted and I have eaten cake in France. Unbelievably good but different, so different. She would not give me the recipe. Said she promised her grandmother never to reveal. OMG and WTF !

She would bring me a cake at Christmas but that only enraged me. I offered to pay her and she stopped bringing me cakes at Christmas. Why would her grandmother wish to keep a recipe secret. Kinda like the Nieman Marcus cookie thing

Bdoon
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Since private labels products are for produced and packaged by third parties, if they don’t sell well, they are quick and easy to discontinue.

I don’t know why people get so hung up on keeping their recipes a secret. To be honest a cake is a cake is a cake. A cookies a cookie is a cookie. What defines a chocolate chip cookie means you have to you specific ingredients and stay within certain ratios of other ingredients to the flour. Otherwise you no longer have a chocolate chip cookie. That’s the way it is with all baked goods because baking is science, a chemical reaction of the ingredients to time in temperature. So if you deviate from the ratios that make up a cookie, you’re not going to have a cookie.

The only reason to keep a recipe/formula secret is if you’re in commercial production.

 

[Bdoon]

Since private labels products are for produced and packaged by third parties, if they don’t sell well, they are quick and easy to discontinue.

I don’t know why people get so hung up on keeping their recipes a secret. To be honest a cake is a cake is a cake. A cookies a cookie is a cookie. What defines a chocolate chip cookie means you have to you specific ingredients and stay within certain ratios of other ingredients to the flour. Otherwise you no longer have a chocolate chip cookie. That’s the way it is with all baked goods because baking is science, a chemical reaction of the ingredients to time in temperature. So if you deviate from the ratios that make up a cookie, you’re not going to have a cookie.

The only reason to keep a recipe/formula secret is if you’re in commercial production.

Thank you ...do you recall the HT mixes...ever use them?

 

[Bdoon]

Since private labels products are for produced and packaged by third parties, if they don’t sell well, they are quick and easy to discontinue.

I don’t know why people get so hung up on keeping their recipes a secret. To be honest a cake is a cake is a cake. A cookies a cookie is a cookie. What defines a chocolate chip cookie means you have to you specific ingredients and stay within certain ratios of other ingredients to the flour. Otherwise you no longer have a chocolate chip cookie. That’s the way it is with all baked goods because baking is science, a chemical reaction of the ingredients to time in temperature. So if you deviate from the ratios that make up a cookie, you’re not going to have a cookie.

The only reason to keep a recipe/formula secret is if you’re in commercial production.

The pound cake recipe not shared with me made by far the best pound cake I have ever had. When I shared this cake with others they practically said the same thing about it. I have often wondered what this former co-worker of mine included that made it so good. I liked it as much as Tres Leche or French Wedding cake. She would gift me cakes but not the recipe.