Easy Brownie Cookies

Feb 14

Easy Brownie Cookies

For a perfect shape, allow the dough to chill 1 hour before scooping into balls and baking. These cookies are delicious and very chocolatey. Feel free to add a pinch of cinnamon or ground espresso powder to the dough. Or, you could add a pinch of cinnamon to the confectioners’ sugar before rolling the cookie [...]

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Chocolate Praline Cake

Jun 06

Chocolate Praline Cake

The secret to unmolding a perfect praline topping is to spray the bottom of the pan with vegetable oil, line with a round of parchment paper, then spray again. You can bake this cake with any brand of cake mix, but I will say it is amazing with my new chocolate cake mix. If you [...]

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Old-Fashioned Chocolate Pound Cake with Peppermint Drizzle

Dec 20

Old-Fashioned Chocolate Pound Cake with Peppermint Drizzle

Prep: 15 minutes Bake: 40 to 45 minutes Cool: 45 to 50 minutes I absolutely love this cake—it’s chocolatey without being overpowering, just like the chocolate pound cakes that were such a fixture on picnic and potluck tables when I was growing up. You make it by beginning with a yellow cake mix and adding [...]

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Groundhog Day Cupcakes

Nov 11

Groundhog Day Cupcakes

This cupcake is almost too cute to eat. Serve them on Groundhog Day in February or turn this cupcake into another animal for a different occasion.

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Nov 09

Chunky Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars (as seen on Al Roker’s show!)

The Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars in The Cake Mix Doctor were an instant hit. We baked those bars on press stops and for book signings from coast to coast, and they remain a countrywide favorite.

Nov 08

Double Chocolate Kahlua Cake

I don’t think you’ll find a stronger marriage than Kahlua and chocolate, and this spectacular layer cake proves that point in just one bite.


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The Dinner Doctor

The Dinner Doctor

The doctor's back, and now she's curing dinner woes! Anne Byrn, the award-winning food writer and author of The Cake Mix Doctor and Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor does for dinner what she did for dessert-shows how to take common, convenient supermarket ingredients and turn them into meals that taste like they're made from scratch.

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Anne's Cake Mix

Anne’s Deep Dark Chocolate Cake Mix

Anne’s Deep Dark Chocolate Cake Mix

Chocolate cake - warm fudgy layers topped with a creamy frosting - this is the cake I love most of all.

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