Chocolate, vanilla, confetti, and more!

Southern bakers have always been crafty with the ingredients they have on hand and the time they have to use them. Even if Mama is a diehard from-scratch baker, there are times when everyone has to ...

It's unbelievably easy.

Boxed cake mixes are a great option for any home baker looking to throw together something special, but you should be ...

Swap the oil for brown butter to instantly add rich, nutty, caramel-like flavor. Let the brown butter cool slightly before mixing to avoid scrambling the batter. This simple 5-minute step makes boxed ...

From great to extraordinary.

Adding instant pudding mix to boxed cake mixes creates moister, richer cakes. Side-by-side taste test proved the difference: Pudding mix produced a noticeably moister, bakery-style texture. The ...

Use low-sodium soy sauce. If you’re making a cake from scratch you can adjust the salt in the recipe to account for the presence of the soy sauce. But because chocolate cake mix already has some salt ...

Boxed cake mix is a pantry classic for a reason: It delivers a crowd-pleasing cake with almost no effort. The basics haven’t changed much since John D. Duff of P. Duff and Sons, a now-shuttered ...

Southern bakers have always been crafty with the ingredients they have on hand and the time they have to use them. Even if Mama is a diehard from-scratch baker, there are times when everyone has to ...