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Recipe Club

Cake Mix

Recipe Club

The Ringer

Arts, Food

4.93.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Chris Ying, Bryan Ford, and Rachel Khong gather to do battle with a deceptively simple, dessert-potluck-spotlight-stealing recipe sent in by a listener in search of some Recipe Club baking advice—but can this riddle be solved? Our ingredient this week: cake mix. Find the recipes for this and every Recipe Club on The Ringer's website, watch the video version of this episode on YouTube and Spotify, and join the conversation (and cook along with us!) on Discord and Instagram. The Recipe: Ashley Macrorie’s Mystery Baker Dump Cake Host: Chris Ying Guests: Bryan Ford and Rachel Khong Producer: Sasha Ashall Additional Production: Jordan Bass and Lala Rasor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's Dave Chang here, host of the Dave Chang Show.

0:06.7

You might hear me on with Chris Yang, Noel Cornelio and a host of other guests.

0:10.9

We've been on air for quite some time now and it's changed over the years, but one of

0:15.3

the things we always try to talk about is what's delicious, how to be a better eater, and

0:20.1

you might hear me rambling and coherently, contradicting myself every five minutes.

0:24.5

We talk about some sports and culture and all kinds of other things too.

0:27.3

I think we're the most expert opinion you'll ever hear about anything.

0:31.7

Check us out if you haven't before on the Ringer podcast network.

1:01.3

Hello and welcome to another meeting of recipe club where we debate the best way to cook

1:05.6

the things you want to eat.

1:07.6

My name is Chris Yang.

1:09.1

Today, we're opening a mysterious box of white powder and diving straight in.

1:14.0

No rules, no safe words, just me, Brian Ford, Rachel Kong and Betty Crocker mixing it

1:19.6

up with one of the world's preeminent convenience foods.

1:23.4

Cake mix has been around since at least the 1930s, an invention of a man named John P. Duff

1:28.4

of P Duff and Sons in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1:31.6

Once the Duff man broke the seal on cake mixes, however, many others joined the party.

1:36.1

Betty Crocker, a fictional character, started hawking her own mix in 1947, Duncan Hines,

1:41.5

a real human, joined shortly after, and Pillsbury, a dope boy, introduced chocolate cake mix

1:47.0

in 1948.

1:48.6

Cake mix is all about convenience, and this week's listener submitted recipe is no exception.

1:54.0

Ashley McRory sent in a four ingredient two-step recipe for dump cake with our own David Chang

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