[MisterSandman]

Can we stop calling things you find weird “American?” Like Jesus Christ, Europe isn’t some special land where everyone makes food from scratch and capitalism doesn’t exist.

I’m not even American, but are we seriously judging people for baking cakes using cake mixes? It’s been around for almost a century. I highly doubt that cake mixes aren’t just as common in Europe than they are in the US within a margin of error.

[aDyslecticCrow]

Cake mix is not only an American invention, predominantly sold by American companies (even in the European market), featuring traditionally American baked goods. (Pound cake, brownies and chocolate chip)

Looking for cake mix history in sweden descibe its initial import from USA and England as American style cookies and brownies became popular.

Its American association is well founded. And i did not use the word wierd. I simply pointed out that this ubiquity of "cake mix" baked goods is not reflected in my experience, and may be more concentrated in USA.

In particular in take issue with phrasing cake mix as "family recipe" as even the brands i can find at my store are younger than one generation, and has nowhere near the cultural footprint that they seem to have in USA.

[Tadpole9181]

> pound cake

This isn't meant to reply to the rest of the comment, but as an American I don't think I've ever seen or eaten a pound cake mix?

The recipe is the name... You either make it for $1 or you go to the grocery/bakery and grab the $2 pound cake sitting on the counter.

Most mixes people buy (at least around here) are brownies, cookies, and spongecake.

[aDyslecticCrow]

I use poundcake as a synonym to spongecake. The ingredients and process are the same, with variations large enough between recipes to accommodate both. (Cupcake, chocolate cake, lemom cake, some apple cakes all use the same basic dough composition too)

Poundcake vary greatly beyond a "pound".

If anything, spongecake is more strictly defined, originally not using leveling agents, relying on the air bubbles introduced in the beating of the eggs.

But thats semantics. Perhaps spongecake is more recognised as the umbrella term.

[BobaFloutist]

Ok we'll sponge cake is absolutely not an American invention.

[aDyslecticCrow]

Going by first use by the term, poundcake would be British by about 30 years prior to the influential book American cookery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Cookery). But modern poundcake also relies on the american invention of "double acting baking powder".

[Aloha]

I have, I even have one on the shelf waiting for the occasion to make it.