Pamela's Products Luscious Chocolate Cake Mix, 21-Ounce Packages (Pack of 6)

by Pamela's Products

Product Features

• Case of six 21-ounce packages of cake mix (total of 126 ounces)
• All-natural, rich chocolate cake mix; made with organic cocoa powder
• Wheat-free, gluten-free, non-dairy
• Use to make cakes and other desserts
• Product of USA

Product Description

About the Brand

Pamela Giusto-Sorrells' grandfather, Matthew, in front of the Golden Crescent, circa 1941.

In 1941, Pamela Giusto-Sorrells' grandparents owned one of the first health food stores in San Francisco, the Golden Crescent. It was a small neighborhood natural food bakery and store offering "brick-like" rice, soy, and potato/lima bean breads, as well as rice and soy cookies. These were some of the first available gluten-free foods. In her youth, she had one of the few "female" jobs in the bakery as a cookie packer. Even as a child, and then as a bakery employee, "I was continually amazed that dedicated customers were so thankful to find our gluten-free foods. I personally thought these products looked and tasted awful and wondered why people ate them. The typical reply was, 'Let them be happy there is something on the market for them to eat,'" she says.

Always the dessert baker at home, and after all those hours on the cookie line in the family business, she started experimenting with wheat-free baking. The challenge was to make products that tasted so good that no one would be able to tell that they were wheat-free. "My career was born," she says. "In 1988, I left the family business taking one small pallet of my belongings with my first forklift and moved two blocks away." On April Fool's Day, Pamela's Products became an independent business featuring wheat-free and gluten-free foods, each bite prompting the incredulous food lover to ask: "Are you sure these are wheat-free?"

Pamela's, based in Ukiah, Calif., continues to maintain its indulgent reputation by using the finest natural ingredients, and always striving to delight the customer with delicious, decadent wheat-free and gluten-free cookies, biscotti, and baking mixes. Its products can be found throughout North America.

Why Wheat-Free & Gluten-Free?
People who have a wheat allergy or gluten sensitivity suffer a range of physical symptoms (for example: abdominal bloating, diarrhea, gas and low energy) as a result of eating certain grains. Gluten Intolerance, also known as Celiac Sprue, irritates the intestinal lining preventing the absorption of nutrients into the body through the small intestine. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, barley, possibly oats, and other grains.

Product Description

Pamela's Products luscious chocolate cake mix is deep, dark, rich, moist, decadent cake mix. Pamela's new divine mix makes two luscious layers of deep, dark, rich cake. It is made with premium all-natural ingredients for chocolate lovers. They will transport you to chocolate heaven. Now it's fast and easy to bake a desert that's tantalizing and decadent. No one will believe it's wheat-free and gluten-free.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000DZH19K
• UPC: 093709300403
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,749 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)
  • #17 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Cooking & Baking Supplies > Baking Mixes > Cake Mixes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Cake mix, July 16, 2006

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Marlene Copeland "Total Health" (Arkansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pamela's Products Luscious Chocolate Cake Mix, 21-Ounce Packages (Pack of 6) (Grocery)

I was completely surprised when one of my customers brought this cake mix to me to use for their wedding cake, I made it and it was wonderful. They paid $5.25 per mix, so once I realized how easy it is to use and how wonderful it is I began my search and was so excited to find it at such a good price. I tried mixing in different ways, according to package directions and also separating the eggs and beating the whites and folding them in as the final step in preparation. It was an effort to see how much height I could get. Beating the whites separately did give a little more height, but all in all I determined it was not worth the extra trouble. It is wonderful as it. I used one mix in a 10 inch square pan, baked three layers and stacked them. It made a very tall, nice, rich brownie-like cake. I don't need gluten-free but am so crazy about this mix I have a case now, for my personal use. I highly recommend it.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST chocolate cake mix!, January 19, 2008

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K. Love "Kerri" (The Woodlands, Tx. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pamela's Products Luscious Chocolate Cake Mix, 21-Ounce Packages (Pack of 6) (Grocery)

This is a wonderful, rich cake mix. My family and I are in love with this stuff. It makes 14 cupcakes, big ones. We freeze half for the kids to take to school for treats, the rest are consumed almost immediately! My advice is to let the mix set for 15 minutes before baking, the liquid absorbs more and your cake will be even more moist! I will be using Pamela's for a long time!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Dissenting Opinion, February 24, 2011

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Butterfly - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pamela's Products Luscious Chocolate Cake Mix, 21-Ounce Packages (Pack of 6) (Grocery)

After reading the many positive reviews here on Amazon, I bought a bag of this chocolate cake mix at a local store, and baked cupcakes last night.

Just for the record, this is the third brand of gluten-free chocolate cake mix I have tried, and I really liked the other two: Namaste Foods, Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Mix, 26-Ounce Bags (Pack of 6) and Betty Crocker Gluten Free Devil's Food Cake Mix, 15-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6).

Also, I'm somewhat of a chocolate cake connoisseur. The chocolate cake I used to bake before going gluten-free often received comments that it was the best chocolate cake people had ever eaten.

I find it difficult to account for the many enthusiastic comments about this cake. As soon as I began pouring the mix into a bowl, I noticed the odor of what I assume was the "natural flavor". It smelled almost perfumey, out of place, and definitely not like any ingredient I would have ever used in my baking. But I still hoped that, when baked, the cupcakes would taste good.

While the finished cupcakes had an excellent appearance and texture (even the next day, and after having been frozen), the taste was awful. There was an "off", unnatural taste about them, and they were too salty.

I much prefer the Namaste and Betty Crocker mixes, and definitely will not be buying this one again.