Posts by hbquikcomjamesl

Of course, I'm not saying that Wilton isn't overrated. Any supplier that enjoys a near-monopoly for as long as they have, and succumbs to the temptation to use their name, and the reputation they developed with the products they do...

Funny: I have, so far as I'm aware, exactly two Wilton pans. One is an 8x8 square, which I bought specifically because it was the only 8x8 square that wasn't either (a) nonstick (which I try to avoid for anything other than Bundt...

Lately (i.e., about the past 20-odd years), the local grocers have only offered maybe one or two Jiffy-branded mixes, mostly for muffins. I vaguely remember using one of their mixes once, a very long time ago.

I distinctly remember the cake mixes from my childhood calling for milk, rather than for water and oil, and I also remember when the "Jiffy" brand included a full line of cake mixes.

I never said you were being critical, and I took no offense; I simply saw a reason to clarify.

And of course, there can be other kinds of marble cakes, like my strawberry marble (seedless jam in the contrast batter), or a spice marble (according to Wikipedia, the earliest known marble cake was a molasses-spice marble).

Well, it's not a kitchen cake in the sense of making up extra servings for a display cake that's either too small or mostly fake, but it is in the sense of being an auxiliary to the main cake.   At any rate, edible prints of...

Not quite sure what to make of the question.   Is it to be two sheet cakes set atop each other as layers? Set side-by-side and frosted as if one cake? Checkerboard? Two different batters poured into the same pan, but not...

I've always done it the old-fashioned way: greasing the pan with real butter, then flouring it (around my house, we've always kept a large shaker [the kind with a handle] full of flour, for flouring pans, or preparing to roll out...

There are three separate issues involved: copyright, trademark, and plagiarism.   Copyright law protects the copyright owner not only against those who would seek to profit unjustly from the work in question, but also from...