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"      I&amp;#039;m not typically a cake-mix user; I love baking from scratch, and that&amp;#039;s what I usually do. You could say it&amp;#039;s in my genes: My grandmothers were both great bakers, and my grandfather had a restaurant (a diner-type coffee shop - nothing fancy, but they made great pies). My mom inherited all those baking skills, and she&amp;#039;d try out new desserts on us all the time - so I guess you could say a willingness to experiment is in my genes, too! Dassant, a Portland, Oregon-based maker of high-quality, premium baking mixes, sent some mixes over to our test kitchen. I was intrigued, so I took the Cinnamon Chip Bread Mix for a spin and brought it down for the rest of the staff to taste. Lo and behold, we all devoured it!    (Above: Crazy-good gingerbread cake.) I ended up making several more, including the Vanilla Bean Cake (with real flecks of vanilla bean in it - that shocked us!), Meyer Lemon Cake, Ginger Gingerbread (above), Chocolate Chip Cake, and Truffle Brownies. They were all delicious, and were moist and delicate - very close, I must say, to homemade cake! Take the cake-mix Pepsi challenge yourself: You can buy all of Dassant&amp;#039;s mixes at their website or at Amazon, and you can find a list of their retailers here. Happy baking! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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