Boxed cake mix is one of the most versatile and useful ingredients you can have in your pantry. Not only can you whip up a simple batch of cupcakes for a bake sale with it, or make a more elaborate ...

One of my favorite desserts growing up was my aunt’s chocolate-amaretto bundt cake. It’s rich and fudgy crumb, speckled with melty chocolate chips and perfumed with a faint almond aroma, was unlike ...

Cooks of all caliber have used boxed pudding mix for decades to make their bakes taller, fluffier, and more moist. This "secret" ingredient makes even a novice baker look like a pro.

These Oreo pudding cookies are the kind of dessert that make people stop mid-bite and ask, “What’s in these?” They’re soft, chewy, and full of big Oreo pieces, with a simple instant pudding trick that ...

Brownies fall into my personal database of “perfect foods.” It doesn’t matter if they’re frosting-topped and cosmic-sprinkled, made from a Ghirardelli box mix procured from a college dorm’s ...