Pamela's Products Classic Vanilla Cake Mix, 21-Ounce Bags (Pack of 6)

The Pamela's Products chocolate cake is heaven. This vanilla cake is... well, bearable if you have to eat GF food. Honestly, there are many GF recipes out there to make a sponge cake from scratch that taste way better, so if you don't have to have this product, make your own or buy the chocolate one. This cake is tough and chalky (and yes, I've made it several times and followed all the instructions). It also has a faintly bitter, salty flavor that gives it an unpleasant aftertaste. The chocolate cake can pass for a wheat cake with my non-Celiac friends, but this one is easily recognizable as GF. Maybe if it was modified with other ingredients/flavors as other reviewers have commented, then it might taste better. As a plain white cake, though, it's just not great.

I love this mix. Can make it into other recipes as well. Great job, Pamela!

Great texture and taste. Makes a good pineapple coconut cake. Today, I took a batch of cupcakes to a BD party (iced with Pillsbury Fluffy White icing and coconut) and didn't bring any home. Everyone was astonished that it was GF (all non-Celiacs).

One package makes one layer of a cake or 14 cupcakes (but I always make 12 really big ones).

One of the best "VANILLA" cake mixes available. Many products made with chocolate have a great texture. But it is difficult to find a vanilla cake mix with decent texture.

The flavor on these is good but the texture, as prepared according to the classic vanilla cake direction, is a bit spongier than a wheat based cake. It's actually almost too sweet for a cake with butter cream icing but I think it might make a great muffin with blueberries or some other fruit added.

Ingredients: Organic Natural Evaporated Cane Sugar, Tapioca Starch, White Rice Flour, Potato Starch, Chicory Root, Sea Salt, Grainless & Aluminum Free Baking Powder (Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Potato Starch), Organic Vanilla Powder (contains corn derivative), Rice Bran, Gluten-free Natural Vanilla Powder (contains corn derivative), Xanthan Gum.

I probably would buy this again if I had to be 100% gluten free. (I was looking for a way to reduce the amount of wheat I eat but I do not have outright wheat or gluten allergies.) The directions for turning this into a carrot cake do look pretty good though and I'll probably give it another try prepared that way.

The directions do call for eggs to prepare this so it would not be vegan or for those who have egg allergies.