Every year I make my children's birthday cake from scratch. I’ve made everything from a cake shaped like a Transformers shield and a hockey rink to a monster jam pit party and everything in between. I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...