Update on the search for the Yellow Cake

Funny thing happened while browsing the latest issue of Cooks Illustrated last night. They have a whole spread on the illusive yellow cake. Not just a yellow cake, but the yellow box cake recipe I've been searching for (apparently so have a lot of other people.) You know the cake with the great texture, not too dense, a good crumb, but almost fluffy. The cake I grew up with, the cake with zillions of variations that will garanimal it into another desert. After much trial and error the folks at Cooks Illustrated could not recreate the box cake. The emulsifiers and stabilizers are key to the familiar texture. They have, however, recreated a cake that is close the "Box." I'm going to "cupcake it" this weekend and see if it holds up to my old familiar friends Betty and Ducan.