There is the bake-from-scratch baker. Flour, leaveners, salt, sugar, butter, eggs, and milk, can be made into numerous cake variations depending on their ingredient types, proportions and temperatures, the way they are mixed, baked and cooled. Some turn out dense, some light and airy, others moist and some whose textures are perfect for flavored soaking syrups. Generally, scratch cakes take more than one bowl to make and take specialized technical baking skills to complete.

There is the bake from a boxed-mix baker. Many also like to add in additional ingredients such as more flour, eggs, pudding and sugar, to help make the cake denser, create other flavors, or to make hundreds of variations. The cakes are pretty much mixed the same way, use one bowl and mixed following one technique. The result is typically light and fluffy, airy and somewhat consistent in texture and look, with a slightly domed top.

There are those cake bakers who assemble cake-desserts with already-made store-bought cakes, layering it with fruit and whipped cream or layering it in a glass bowl with fruit sauce and custard. 

And, some cake bakers are a hybrid of all types – they bake from scratch, bake with mixes and assemble already-made cakes for their family and guests!

Every type of cake baker seems to have his or her own taste preference and cake-texture expectation. The cake-mix lovers often do not like bake-from-scratch cakes because they find them denser, often taking more chewy bites to complete, or they bake flatter, without a dome, if properly formulated, and wonder what they did wrong with the recipe when it happens.

The bake-from-scratch cake lovers wouldn’t dare make anything from a mix because it means they “cheated” and gave way to commercialism; they simply do not like the chemical taste from mixes and feel as though the whole experience and art of baking a cake is lost when using a mix.

What I have set out to develop are recipes for all kinds of cake lovers. I have a wide range of them; some even called Scratch Yellow or Chocolate Cake with Box Qualities, for those who like their cake texture similar to a boxed-mix! I have a Scratch Cake from a Mix, a much-improved way of baking a cake from a mix, in all flavors, which doesn’t taste like you have used a boxed mix! I have all of the classics, too.