All right, I’m about to ask a potentially heretical question:

How come my homemade cake is never quite as moist (and therefore as compelling) as cake made from a typical boxed mix?

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Isn’t this just the nicest looking yellow cake?

Close/fine texture, yet still moist; high-rising, not crumbly… and the crown of chocolate doesn’t hurt, either!

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Do you remember your 10th birthday?

Big day, right? At last – double digits!

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