I consider myself a bit of a cake expert, and in my professional opinion this recipe for yellow cake with chocolate frosting is the best birthday cake. It’s the perfect balance of ultra-fluffy, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Yellow cake is a classic. It's a basic vanilla cake that gets its ...

Whisk together the cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, cold water, vegetable oil, rum and maple extract in a large bowl until ...

We bet you can't name a more enticing scent than a homemade cake baking up to springy, golden brown perfection in your oven. (Go ahead, we'll wait.) The truth is, nothing beats it—except, of course, ...

Cake mix can make baking faster and easier. We tasted nine mixes to find our favorites → Michael Murtaugh/NYT Wirecutter The best boxed yellow cake mix A light and fluffy cake with just enough ...

Ree Drummond is no stranger to needing shortcuts to feed a veritable army, but hers are always top notch, including this one ...

There's no denying the novel appeal of cake pops; after all, everyone loves food on a stick, and if it's dessert, even better. Most recipes call for starting with cake made from a store-bought mix, ...

The next time you use a cake mix, you might chuckle — or groan (as I did) — thinking about how this staple of American kitchens was first marketed to women. A molasses company, O. Duff and Sons, ...

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 ...