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Can we talk about how much more sugar old cake recipes used?
I was flipping through my grandma's 1975 Betty Crocker cookbook and a basic yellow cake called for a full two cups of sugar, which is way more than my modern recipes use. I made it last weekend and it was honestly TOO sweet, like a sugar rush in every bite. Did cake formulas just change that much over the years, or was my grandma's sweet tooth off the charts?
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rowanjenkins6mo ago
My mom's 1970s cookie recipes always taste like pure sugar to me now.
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gonzalez.vera5mo ago
Right?! I had the exact same shock. My aunt sent me her famous chocolate cake recipe from 1982 and I swear it had almost double the sugar of my go-to version. I made it for a party and everyone was buzzing off that first bite, literally shaking from the sugar crash an hour later. I think people back then just ate way more sugar in everything, so their taste buds were totally used to it. A soda or a bowl of cereal back then had way more too, so a sweet cake didn't stand out as much. Now I have to cut every old recipe by at least half a cup or it's just painful.
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harris.drew6mo ago
Nah, you just got used to less sugar... that old cake is the real deal. Our taste buds are the ones that changed, not the recipes.
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