Blood Orange Cake Mix: 6/10
🚨NEW ITEM🚨 Blood oranges are a little more tart than regular oranges, and I definitely tasted the bite in this cake and icing. The cake itself had a good texture and was dense and moist with a slight orange flavor. I liked the cake part the best! The frosting, however, tasted weirdly artificial and like an orange smartie candy mixed with an orange creamsicle. Sounds like it should be good, but there was such a weird flavor to it that I cannot put my finger on. When I was mixing the batter and icing, it seriously smelled like rotten onions and I got bits of that taste at different times when I retried the cake! So bizarre! I don’t think I’ll be buying this cake mix again, but if I do, I would make a homemade blood orange icing to go on top. My family, however, loved this cake. Each box is $3.69.
Have you tried this yet? What did you think?
I absolutely LOVED it!!!!!!!!😍😍😍
Tried really hard to like this & even tried adding chocolate chips because I love chocolate/orange combination but it had a very funky taste. Even my teenage son didn’t like it & he eats everything …
Made it this weekend and neighbors and husband loved it !
It was too sweet for me…gave me a headache 😔
Tried it- loved it. 8.5/10 Didn’t have the onions experience. It was all citrus yum. Icing was a bit lumpy but did the trick. Haven’t seen it in store since but will def buy it again
My family loved it. We did not use the icing. I did doctor it up by adding dried cranberries and walnuts to loaf mixture and made a crumb topping. (Butter, flour, oatmeal, cinnamon and dried coconut) 😋
It was okay. I liked it without the icing. The icing did have an artificial taste to it.
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I didn’t like this at all! The icing ruined it for me and I ended up throwing it away. 😢
I liked it, I didn’t get an onion taste, but there definitely was a sour smell to the batter, but it seemed to bake out.
I read the reviews. Was trying not to be highly suggestible but definitely got the strange onion smell in baking and it had a strange sour after taste. I didn’t mention a word and my daughter said the same thinking without knowing about this review. It went in the trash before it had time to cool down. Weird! it must be made in a factory where they also make spices or onion powder is in the air.
Agreed!! Weird artificial after taste.
Oh so weird! My family and I loved it! Didn’t get any weird smell from the icing!
I made this and it was amazing! I added fresh blood orange zest to the batter and substituted buttermilk for the water. I used fresh blood orange juice in the icing instead of water.
it sucked!!! 🙁
I liked the cake. I added cream cheese to the icing mix and made a more enjoyable frosting than your smarties icing.
It tasted like Flintstone vitamins
Loved it. Made it twice first time was much better than 2nd. You have to put more water than suggested and a tad less butter. Otherwise to thick.
Strongly disagree. This is cake is delicious, moist and tastes magnificent with chocolate chips sprinkled on top. You can find similar cakes at high end bakeries. Perhaps the onion smell/flavor came from unwashed hands lmao
I hated it. 😂
This was so good! So mosit, so dense, and just tart enough for a tart lover. Wish it was still around
Weird after taste – not sure if it was onion but it was off
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Thoughts on making as muffins instead of a loaf?