My husband’s birthday was last week so my girls and I decided to bake him a cake. We strolled the cake aisle at HEB and the Duff brand cake mix caught our eyes. We had two options, a rainbow cake mix or a zebra cake mix. My girls and I chose the Duff zebra cake mix.
When I saw the cool cake design on the cake box I was a little worried that I would not be able to pull it off, but it was worth a shot. After reading the instructions on the back of the box, I was pleasantly surprised, it was easy!
The box contained two packs of cake mix, one vanilla and one chocolate. Each cake mix had their own separate instructions.
My daughter was out of school with an ear ache on this day, so she was lucky enough to be my assistant. She did an excellent job at following directions.
The cake mix instructions had simple instructions on how to make the perfect ‘zebra’ cake effect. Gia did an amazing job and was very patient.
The cake came out perfect and I used regular store bought frosting. It was so tasty! My one tip is that on the box it reads to cook the cake for a certain amount of time, I believe it is a 10 minute gap such as 40-50 minutes. This is a big gap, so I would cook it for around 40 minutes and then test it.
I recommend the Duff Zebra Cake mix. Not only did my 7 year old enjoy helping me mix it up, but my entire family enjoyed eating it for days! I am really excited to try the Rainbow design next.
Written by: Aimee Fauci
Now that sure looks great!
I have not seen these cake mixes yet, I wonder if they will come out with other ideas too! I love the idea of a Zebra cake, the kids would have fun making it I bet!
I hadn’t heard of these before but will definitely look for them now. A zebra cake looks super fun!
My daughter and I were looking at the rainbow cake mix tonight! She was asking to buy some, something I think we may do. I have to try it at least once.
Cute! I love the print, but it’s out of my budget.
How much fun! they look delicious, too!
My neice has had a zebra theme since she was born. This would be awesome for her birthday.
I’ve seen these. They look great, but a little pricey for us.
Oh that cake looks delish. I have never heard of this brand until now.
I haven’t seen this around yet, but I”ll be looking now. This is a must-do!
I love all of the Duff products! (I use the fondant a lot)! Cute Cake!
That cake looks fun! I will have to look for this brand at the store!
I have seen these mixes and cool frostings at the store and wondered about them. Nice to hear they are as good as they are cool looking.
That looks really cool and yummy! I want to try it!!
I’ve seen these in the store before, and I Always wanted to know how they turned out. Thanks for sharing the final results. It’s an adorable cake!
I actually saw that cake mix and wanted to try it. cake came out awesome!
Oh I have always wondered how good these were, they sure look tasty! I will have to ry them!
The cake looks absolutely adorable; and I love the idea of combining chocolate and vanilla in it. Glad it came out so well and delicious, too.
Estelle
I haven’t tried these. What fun patterns, are thy all the same? – Jenn @ The Rebel Chick
I just saw these recently. I wondered if they tasted as good as they looked on the box, glad to hear it did taste good.
I have never seen this mixes before, but I love the marbled look. I am going to look for these and see if our local store has them.
Oh that does look tasty! Love the design the chocolate and vanilla make too.
I have seen the Duff cakes mixes at the store but have never purchased a box. Yours turned out really cute – I will have to buy one and try it. Thanks for sharing!
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Your cake is really neat – turned out great. I seen this mix at the market – I will be making one!
It turned our really cool! I saw this at Target and had been wanting to try it out.
I haven’t seen this cake mix on the store shelves in my area yet. If they do get them in stock, I’ll have to try it!
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I have seen these and wondered how they were. Good to hear it was tasty, because now I think I will try one for my mom’s birthday cake this week.
I have never heard of this before! Looks and sounds delicious! Yum!
I’ve never seen these cakes before. They look so fun, I’ll definitely have to look for them.
So neat. I’ve never thought to do this.
So cool! I have never heard of this brand; thank you for introducing me to it. The birthday boy and your little helper both look very happy. I love when things turn out well for birthdays!
That looks so yummy! I’ve not done a zebra design. I’ll have to try that.
That turned out great! I haven’t seen these mixes yet. I’ll have to take a look at the store.
I love his cake designs but I never actually tried his mixes yet. I usually bake from scratch but I’ll have to try these out sometime.
Vanilla and chocolate cake combined sounds very delicious. Since we don’t have an HEB near us, I checked to see where I could get this. Happy to see it’s available at Walmart and Target!
This cake looks yummy! I’ll have to try Duff’s brand.
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I love the cool designs inside the cake. I actually never baked a cake before but one of these days my daughters and I will bake one together.
STOP, did you just say you’ve never baked a cake? That took me back 😉 Hee Hee..
Yes, hard to believe huh? My cooking skills sucks. LOL! #ProductReviewParty
Looks like a fun (and tasty!) project! Good to know that it isn’t that hard to do!
I saw these cake mixes at Target yesterday! They have so many different flavors and designs to choose from. I wasn’t sure how they were going to be so I haven’t picked one up yet. Yours looks like it turned out yummy. We love to bake and this would be so much fun to make with my little girl!
This looks like so much fun! It also looks delicious.
He has his own cake mix how cool. I am so tired of Duncan Hines I would try this
I love even just the packaging those come in. They always catch my eye in the store!
It always caught my eyes also and I always steered away because it was pricey for a ‘boxed’ cake and I thought.. UH do I really want to ‘think’ when I make a boxed cake. but this one was easy peasy!
Around here, we call them marble cakes and my boys love when I make marble cakes for them. But seriously, who doesn’t love cake – especially when it’s chocolate AND vanilla.
I was looking at those recently, and totally loved how wacky they come out. They’re super fun, and I have no doubt they’re equally as tasty.