When you need to whip up a last-minute celebratory dessert, store-bought cake mix is the obvious choice. But I'm here to convince you to ditch the box—because homemade cake mix is a lot easier to make ...

It’s your birthday—so you deserve nothing less than the best. Either that, or you’re baking for someone else’s birthday party, and your guest of honor deserves the best, too! This fluffy vanilla ...

As luck of the calendar would have it, today’s Family Recipe Box coincides with International Day of the Octopus and my birthday. And since I neither eat nor cook any cephalopods, birthday cake is on ...

When you’re looking for a fun and delicious homemade birthday cake, there’s really only one option: confetti cake. A great confetti cake is celebratory (thanks to all the sprinkles stirred into the ...

If you want to have your cookie dough and eat it too, try this recipe, that will satisfy your sweet tooth without all the ...

This birthday cake ice cream recipe takes 15 minutes and a few ingredients. Making no churn ice cream (without an ice cream maker) couldn’t be easier! Birthdays are that one day a year when it’s ...

Cake mixes still fascinate me. As a child, I would stand in the baking aisle at Al’s Grocery in Melvin, staring at the pictures on the boxes of the various mixes. Each one looked more perfect than the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Birthdays are occasions that call for extra-special desserts, and though a tried-and-true birthday cake is the go-to, it's certainly not the ...