Yahoo Lifestyle We Asked Dolly Parton for the Best Way to Upgrade a Boxed Cake Mix, and Her Answer Was Iconic
If you're Dolly Parton, you know the true meaning of success. From multiple decades of a highly celebrated musical career to being known as one of the kindest women in show business, Dolly Parton has continued to amass fans generation after generation. While her musical talent speaks for itself, she's just as good at cooking as she is singing.
Though recipes like her skillet cornbread, walnut pie and her cream of vegetable soup are all worthy of their time in your kitchen, her boxed collaborations with Duncan Hines deserve a spot there, too.
"We've got a chocolate and a yellow cake mix. We got muffin mixes and pancakes and a lot of wonderful things," Country's Iron Butterfly said in an interview with Parade. Of which she likes best, Parton couldn't choose, "I like every one of them, but it just depends on the mood that I'm in."
While Dolly was more than eager to talk shop about her line of boxed mixes, she also told us the one secret ingredient she thinks is the ultimate upgrade to any boxed cake.
"Well, I fill all of that with love," she said enthusiastically. "I think anybody that's a good cook or used to cooking, you're going to automatically add a few things of your own. Whether it's nuts and it doesn't call for nuts or bananas or whatever. I think it's mostly just knowing how to cook. A real good cook is going to know how to make a cake from scratch. Nothing handier though, then to grab that box, look at that and know you're not going to make no mistakes."
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But boxed baking mixes aren't the only Dolly-inspired food item you can get your hands on. You can also buy Dolly Parton frozen mac and cheese and frozen dessert pies.
Stating that she's always "dreamed of having a frozen food line," Dolly noted that it's important that customers can get "really hearty food" with what she puts out. If the mac and cheese is anything like her homemade mac and cheese recipe, we can assure you it'll be comforting (and delicious!).
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