When you bake a cake, you want it to be delicious and have a fluffy texture. You can boost the fluffiness of a boxed mix by adding a starchy ingredient.

People had feelings about it! Dozens of home bakers and even a product development scientist weighed in to not only commiserate, but share their hacks. Some have resorted to buying an extra box (to ...

Vegetable oil was saved for frying in her house (and mind you, my grandma wasn't even Southern). The neutral oil has its place in baking, but when it comes to cake mixes, she always used melted butter ...

You might be surprised that Food Network star and legendary cake creator, Duff Goldman, has any kind of advice for improving boxed cake mix. After all, professional pastry chefs and experienced home ...

When I enjoyed my favorite dessert at our church youth group in San Francisco 30 years ago, I had no way of knowing that one day I'd be "famous" for the very same cake. I've been making it for 18 ...

A delicious cake makes a wonderful dessert when shared with friends and dear ones. With that said, the saying still goes about having too much of a good thing. When you don't want to make an entire ...

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 ...