Dolly Parton and Duncan Hines Whip Up a Cake and Frosting Line
Did you save room for dessert?
Like the old country wisdom goes, the way to a man’s heart is through his belly — and Dolly Parton seems to think that logic applies to her fans as well. She’s not wrong!
Parton has unveiled a Dolly-ized line of baking products with Duncan Hines, putting her patented Southern charm on a number of cake mixes and frostings. Sounds delicious, right? The only rub is that they immediately sold out. Should have seen that coming.
Based on the Southern-style desserts of Parton’s backwoods Tennessee upbringing, her Duncan Hines line features coconut-flavored and banana-pudding cake mixes, plus buttercream frostings … and some very “Dolly” looking packaging. After revealing the partnership she went on CBS This Morning to help spread the word, and told co-host Gayle King that like everything Parton does, the baking line comes from her heart.
“I love to cook and I learned to do that growing up in the mountains of East Tennessee,” she said. “My mom was a great cook, all my aunts and my grandma, so of course, I learned to cook that good ol’ southern stuff.”
Parton and Duncan Hines say the mixes and frostings will start hitting store shelves next month, but they offered up a number of Dolly-cake baking packages for fans who signed up. Predictably, that was a deal too good to resist, and they sold out in minutes. Now we’re stuck wondering (and craving), with long weeks to go.
Sounds to me like the country icon’s shrewd promotions team was “baking” in some artificial demand, but who can stay mad at Dolly Parton? Back on CBS, she talked about what it’s like to be so loved by fans all around the world — including the recent news that her songs have now surpassed 3 Billion global streams. She has also written her first mystery novel, teaming up with best-seller James Patterson for the upcoming Run, Rose, Run, which also features an original soundtrack of new songs written and performed by Parton herself.
“It scares me to death sometimes. I’m always sayin’ I’m not all that, I’m even not all there sometimes,” she said. “But it makes me feel good that I’ve been around long enough for people to feel like they know me and they’ve just kind of accepted me.”
