Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. For many people, including myself, boxed cake mix is the entry point to baking. It’s both convenient to use and ...

The thing about making a cake roll (aka jelly roll, Swiss cake roll, Yule log) with cake mix is you get two cakes rather than just one like most scratch recipes. The convenience of a boxed mix is just ...

Adding one extra egg transforms boxed cake texture and flavor. Pastry chef Trung Vu explains that eggs provide structure, ...

So, the pumpkin cake starts with a box of spiced cake mix—prepared as the box says—and gets topped with a mixture of pumpkin ...

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 ...