The Affordable Boxed Cake Mix Aldi Customers Love

Aldi is one of our favorite stores for low-cost grocery staples. The company's lack of brand-name products is by design, as part of its overarching commitment to offer the best prices, but generic doesn't have to automatically equal inferior. In fact, some of Aldi's private-label products meet or even exceed the quality of the household names at big supermarkets, like its Baker's Corner Yellow Cake Mix. Selling for just $1.25 a box at the time of this writing, you can't deny that it's a screaming deal as the basis for homemade cakes. Users on Reddit argue that it's actually one of their favorite boxed mixes to boot!

"This is by far the best box cake mix I have ever had. 100% satisfaction IS a guarantee," reads the Reddit thread headline. Further down, a commenter agrees wholeheartedly: "Yellow cake mix is [3 flame emojis]. Very reliable. Tastes a lot like Duncan Hines to me." Appealingly, Baker's Corner Yellow Cake Mix contains no artificial colors and bakes into a fluffy, light cake that lives up to the "extra moist" boast on the label. Of course, you can use your bargain cake mix for making an ordinary sheet cake for any occasion, be it everyday snacking or a family birthday, but we got a little carried away imagining all the ways we could doctor up this amazingly affordable mix into something extraordinary.

Cake mix is a baking workhorse that we've found so many sweet uses for besides simple sheets for layering. With just three ingredients, you can turn a store-bought cake mix into a luscious cobbler, and the Baker's Corner Yellow Cake Mix is no exception. Since reviewers love the fact that it isn't too sweet, you could stand to dress it up with strawberry pie filling and a layer of homemade whipped cream for a pretty, delicious take on strawberry shortcake that isn't cloying. We also recently learned about the old-school Duncan Hines Sock It To Me Cake, which uses a yellow cake as its basis. The Aldi cake mix is cheaper than Duncan Hines, and possibly even better, especially when swirled with brown sugar, cinnamon, and pecans.

Yellow cake is the starting point of many other classic cakes, like pineapple upside down cake, Kentucky butter poke cake, and even tres leches. It's a glorious tabula rasa for fruit, fillings, custards, and/or icings of all flavors — the only limit is your imagination. Of course, you can also use this versatile mix for all your favorite cake mix hacks, like cupcakes, cake pops, and even cookies, which are painlessly simple to make with cake mix. Knowing what we know about Baker's Corner Yellow Cake Mix, you can bet that we're going to make sure we always stock a few boxes in our pantry for when we're craving something sweet!