Cake mix recipes are a great shortcut when you want reliable results without extra steps. Starting with a boxed mix keeps ...

In the Southern Kitchen series Saving Southern Recipes, Associate Editor Kate Williams explores the deep heritage of Southern cooking through the lens of passed-down family recipes. Unless you grew up ...

IF Maya Angelou likes you, even just a bit, she wants to cook for you. The 76-year-old celebrated writer and poet invests something personal in each dish, whether for the hungry stranger walking into ...

Q: I have scoured the internet, and cookbooks in the library and bookstores, all to no avail, in an effort to find a recipe for a 7-layer caramel cake. Can you help? Thanks so much. A: The 7-layer ...

Make Martha Stewart's Caramel Buttercream Layer Cake featured in the "Sponge Cake" episode of Martha Bakes. Using a serrated knife, halve each cake horizontally to form 2 layers. Transfer 1 layer to a ...

Preheat the oven to 350°. Butter three 8-inch cake pans; line the bottoms with parchment paper. Butter the parchment and flour the pans, tapping out the excess. Make the Cake: In a bowl, mix 1/4 cup ...

Caramel in all its iterations that steals my heart every time. Whether it's a crackling coating on a cream puff, a soft-flowing sauce drizzled or a chewy morsel slipped out of a square of waxed paper, ...