So there I stood in my kitchen, surrounded by the flour and sugar and cocoa that would make a great chocolate cake, and yet feeling like I couldn’t make my favorite chocolate pudding dessert anymore because of this one unavailable little stinkin’ cake mix! All the cake mixes now are for larger sizes that won’t work in this recipe. Sure, that little cake mix was handy for the first few years I made the recipe, but now? Now it was the thing causing all the great inconvenience. It’s not on any shelf at any grocery store in my area.Īnd here again I’m reminded of what at first glance seems like convenience may not really be convenient after all. Which I can find exactly NOWHERE anymore. The recipe called for a Jiffy one-layer chocolate cake mix. But now one ingredient was screwing things up. I’d made it a whole bunch of times and everyone always gobbles it up when it’s served. My chocolate pudding dessert recipe had always been a reliable standby for me for those “potluck” and “company’s coming” kind of occasions. PLUS – it will last better into the future too because it doesn’t rely on a particular size or brand of product packaging.Īnd it was time to do the same thing with another one of my oldies but goodies – my favorite chocolate pudding dessert. The sizes and brands that worked 30 years ago just didn’t make much sense anymore and after doing some thinking and number crunching, I created my updated homemade hot chocolate mix that worked much better. I touched on this subject once before with my recipe for a homemade hot chocolate mix that I’d been using for many years. As the years go by, these products may be discontinued or reintroduced in different flavor varieties, sizes and prices change, store brands of the same thing may become available, and all of this can leave you with a recipe that doesn’t translate to the real world like it used to. My adventures in the kitchen last week once again highlighted why it can be frustrating to rely too much on recipes that use a particular size or brand of a pre-packaged convenience item at the grocery store.
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