Keep Duncan Hines pareve!
My Kosher Today Weekly News Update was delivered via email this morning and I was very disapointed to learn that Duncan Hines cake mixes will soon become dairy. For some reason, the marketing people believe that they will sell more cakes with this new dairy ingredient. Unfortunately for Orthodox Jews and the lactose-intolerant the world over, this is bad bad news. Duncan Hines was the last hold-out of all the cake mix companies to stay pareve and now that they are going dairy, what are we to make 1 hour before shabbat when we need a dessert for dinner? What, are we to turn to fruit? What is a strawberry without chocolate cake or a Friday afternoon without finger-likin' marble cake batter to eat before showering for Shabbat?
Just a few years ago, Stella Doro's famous "streimel cookies" (aka, "swiss fudge") went dairy for a little while, and then after all the Jews of Brooklyn protested, they sheepishly took the diary cookies off the market and went back to the pareve recipe. Let's hope Duncan Hines doesn't make the same embarassing mistake. Send Mr. Hines some feedback here and let him know exactly how much business he stands to lose by giving in to the milky side.
Just a few years ago, Stella Doro's famous "streimel cookies" (aka, "swiss fudge") went dairy for a little while, and then after all the Jews of Brooklyn protested, they sheepishly took the diary cookies off the market and went back to the pareve recipe. Let's hope Duncan Hines doesn't make the same embarassing mistake. Send Mr. Hines some feedback here and let him know exactly how much business he stands to lose by giving in to the milky side.
posted by elanit | 2:46 PM
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You had me until you said What, are we to turn to fruit?" - personally, I'm all about fruit for dessert, and think that it's way better than mix-cakes.
I'd like to see the cakes stay pareve, but I just had to stick up for the fruit-dessert-eaters...
Fruit is good, but much better with cake. :)
So I checked in the store last night, and only about hald of the DH mixes are parve anyway. A decent number are dairy (like some of the brownies) and a few aren't OU certified at all. Also, of the few DH mixes I've tried, most of the parve ones are rather dry and bland (like generic yellow cake) and need icing anyway, which is unfortunately dairy. (Unless you make your own - Rebecca claims it can be done with confectioners sugar and soy milk). About the only thing I'll miss of the bunch is the angel food cake.
As a side note, has anyone seen the stella s'oro cookies anywhere? I haven't seen them in years and I used to love them.
I have to agree that fruit is better with cake (although it is yummy on its own).
The funny thing with Stella D'oro is that they changed their packagining to "Dairy" in preparation for the switch to the dairy recipe but never made the recipe change. The "dairy" cookies were always pareve! Hopefully DH will follow suit and stay pareve.
Most people use the DH pareve brownie mix for quick shabbat desserts. There were a few months when that went dairy too, and then they decided to keep one type of brownie mix pareve and the rest dairy, after the outcry. (I believe this was in 1997- I was in Israel for the year, and people were hoarding DH pareve brownie mix.)
And I haven't seen the Stella Doro cookies since moving out of NY. Maybe they only distribute in select markets.
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