Food Network – May 2020
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Welcome at Food Network Magazine May 2020 Issue
A few years ago I took my kids to dinner at my sister’s house and right after we arrived, my older daughter, Sawyer, pulled me into the hallway for a private conversation. “Mom!” she shout-whispered. “Uncle Dave is making a box cake!” She’d spotted a cake mix on the counter and it didn’t seem right: Uncle Dave was not the kind of guy who would turn to Betty Crocker for help with dessert. He cooks steaks sous vide on weeknights and rolls his own sushi at his sons’ birthday parties. I glanced back into the kitchen and had to break the news to Sawyer: The box in question was actually Swans down cake flour. I could see the disappointment on her face when i told her. She’d been begging me to by a cake mix for years. Every time we’d go down the baking aisle at the grocery store, she’d thrown one at the cart as a joke, and then we both laugh – hahahaha hilarious , now put it back.
But wat i was thinking? All the wanted was to bake something in her own – and i could given her that trill just by getting her a single box of cake mix.
Instead we suffered through mirror-glaze disasters, attempted elaborate floral-patterned roulades and spent entire weekends building over-the-top fondant-covered birthday cakes for her cousins. Maybe the better way to get kids interested in cooking and baking is to make things easy for them: We created a special section for kids in this issue (see page 31) full of doable recipes, including simple sheet cakes in 15 different flavors. We’re also launching a new kids’ cooking column next month. And we’ve just released The Big, Fun Kids Cookbook, which is packed with no-fuss recipes along with quizzes, games and food trivia. The book includes (you’re welcome, Sawyer) an entire chapter of cake-mix hacks, like how to turn white cake mix into a giant dessert pizza. We figure that’ll give kids a taste of the fun, and everything else—maybe even a real homemade pizza—will follow.
Maile Carpenter
Editor in Chief
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