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, ...

Bash yellow cake mix all you want, but there’s something undeniably delightful about that buttery, vanilla-infused flavor. Case in point: The “cake batter” trend of 2015, wherein everything from lip ...

Pillsbury is a beloved, classic brand, and their cake mixes are like a party in a box. There is no weird artificial ...

Yellow cake is a classic. It's a basic vanilla cake that gets its yellow hue from oil and whole eggs. While sometimes you ...

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, ...

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 ...