Disclosed are dry culinary mixes for use in preparing
baked goods, especially microwave layer cakes. The
dry mixes employ high levels of a defined nucleating
agents. The dry mixes enable the consumer to bake a
cake using microwave radiant energy comparable to a
conventionally oven baked cake in quality, structure,
volume, and texture. The nucleating agent can be any
water insoluble minute material having a particle size of
20-200 microns. Preferred nucleating agents are
particularly sized microcrystalline cellulose particles.