This is where homemade is most likely to be preferred! While cake mixes have a certain nostalgic comfort factor, they typically taste flat, sugary and vaguely chemical while the texture leaves a lot to be desired. Cakes made from scratch simply taste better: They're rich, buttery, and moist with lots of hints of sweet flavor that make it hard to stop eating more of them. When you get to the fine print on those cake boxes, you'll see a handful of ingredients that don't look like they belong. Things like partially hydrogenated soybean oil, cellulose gum, and modified corn starch. Homemade cakes are not only good, they are also good for you. You might even come across that dusty old box in a couple of weeks and wonder why you ever bought it