Duncan Hines has been a great source of easy, vegan cake mixes. The only “trick” is to use applesauce instead of eggs (1.5 tablespoon of applesauce = 1 egg) and soymilk if they call for milk (a lot don’t). Applesauce acts in the same role in getting the right consistency and fluffiness that eggs do.

October 2005, I noticed that nearly all of the Duncan Hines cake and brownie mixes had started containing milk. I inquired with Pennacle Foods, and they said it was not intentional, but it was purely because they had changed factories. The new factory had been used for so much dairy-containing products, that it added dairy to all of the mixes. Well, apparently they had received such a large response to it (from lactose-intolerant, vegans, kosher people, and those who generally avoid dairy because of the health affects), that they changed back 12 of their 18 cake mixes to the diary-free versions!

I highly recommend the red velvet cakes (with cream cheese frosting from Pillsbury, which is accidentally vegan as well)! You can find vegan icings by Pillsbury right next to the Duncan Hines cake mixes! Chocolate, Vanilla, Cream Cheese frostings are all available.

Dairy-Free Duncan Hines Mixes/Products

• Devil’s Food
• Yellow
• Lemon Supreme
• Butter Recipe Golden
• Swiss Chocolate
• Spice
• Fudge Marble
• Pineapple Supreme
• Butter Recipe Fudge
• German Chocolate
• Red Velvet
• Dark Chocolate Fudge

Thank you Duncan Hines!

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