What is a homemade cake?

[turkeymama]

If it's made at home, it's homemade.

If it's of your own mixture (i.e. not out of the box) then it's made from scratch.

I agree with this.

Even if you make it from a box, it is still homemade. What else would it be? Store-bought since you bought the mix from the store? Nah, that's silly.

Now that isn't to say I don't appreciate the difference between a cake made from a box and one made from scratch. But in my mind, they are both homemade since neither was purchased already baked from a bakery.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

What about using cake flour? That is from a box.

 

[englishteacha]

To me, homemade is from scratch. Home BAKED is anything else you bake at home, from a mix, from the freezer, etc. A Sara Lee pumpkin pie you bake is home baked.

It's funny that my students get all excited when I make cupcakes. I use a mix for them but they never get anything baked at home so they are delighted that I took the time to make cupcakes for them, even from a mix!

 

[Buckalew11]

Homemade cake is from scratch. I've never made one but have eaten it before.

I like cake; homemade, from a box or from the bakery!

 

[dislaney]

It's all cake. Homemade to me means made at home. I do think there is a definite distinction between scratch and box cake though. Right now I'd eat a piece of either!

 

[Planogirl]

I have noticed that a person's preference for cake depends on which type of cake they were raised on. People who are used to scratch cakes tend to prefer scratch while those who eat boxed mixes more often think that scratch cakes are dry. Personally, I'm just happy someone made cake!!!

I agree! Plus you can doctor mix cakes, not that I would ever do that...

 

[antmaril]

A cake made from scratch is homemade - no mix.

 

[Imzadi]

Cake from a mix would simply be baked, as in "I baked a cake.

Cake from scratch would be, "I made a cake." So a homemade cake would be from scratch.

 

[chloelovesdisney]

I'd say anything that comes out of my oven is homemade.

 

[JessicaR]

I say #2 is correct.

This reminds me of something that I learned a few years ago. A local deli had a sign in their window "Home Baked Pies" My husband knew the owner. He had the pies made by Mrs smith but he baked them in his ovens and sold them as his own. Not right!

 

[Gigi22]

The expression 'homemade cake' is entirely new to me. This is probably a generational thing. Growing up, there were scratch cakes, cakes from the bakery and then there were mixes--and I still think of them that way. The last cake I made was for DH's birthday--Angel Food Cake, from scratch. My Mom would have been proud!

 

[DisneyBeagle]

I should have done this as a poll, but it looks like the majority think that homemade is from scratch. I would have thought that more people would consider a homemade cake anything that you bake at home.

 

[Handbag Lady]

Home made = NO box

This.

 

[NMAmy]

What about using cake flour? That is from a box.

Exactly! If you're not growing, harvesting, and grinding your own wheat, how can you say it's from "scratch"?

Frankly, if someone puts a lovely treat in the oven and bakes it for me whether they got the ingredients from a box or gathered them all together and put them together, they can call it whatever they want. And I'd call myself grateful.

 

[SundaeAfternoon]

Person 2 thinks it's a cake that is made according to a recipe without using box cake mix...she said in order to be homemade it has to be from scratch.

This. And that includes the frosting.

 

[marcyinPA]

Homemade= no boxed cake mix

 

[DisneySaver28]

This. And that includes the frosting.

I hate canned frosting! I like the real stuff! (I guess that's a good thing for my waistline!)

 

[Imzadi]

I say #2 is correct.

This reminds me of something that I learned a few years ago. A local deli had a sign in their window "Home Baked Pies" My husband knew the owner. He had the pies made by Mrs smith but he baked them in his ovens and sold them as his own. Not right!

Smith is a very common name. Perhaps your DH got confused on which Mrs. Smith made the pies.

 

[ols386]

Has to be made with flour, sugar, eggs, etc. Same for the icing. Although I have baked the cake from scratch, used the canned icing, and called it home-made.

 

[Mermaid02]

Home made means made from scratch- no mixes!