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Episode
Everyone's Favorite Cake
Leave that boxed cake mix on the shelf. We prove that you can create an extremely fluffy yellow cake with entirely natural ingredients.

It’s easy to create a supremely soft and fluffy cake with additives, but most cakes made from entirely natural ingredients are either unpleasantly dense or too fragile to support layers of frosting. We developed an old-fashioned yellow layer cake that achieves ethereal texture, and topped it with a foolproof chocolate frosting with satiny texture and deep chocolate flavor. It’s so simple, you’ll never reach for another box of cake mix.

Recipes
Foolproof Chocolate Frosting
Fluffy Yellow Layer Cake


Tasting Lab
Dark Chocolate
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