Anne’s Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake

Feb 07

Anne’s Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake

This recipe begins with your favorite box of yellow cake mix. The 21.6-ounce cake mix is the Cake Mix Doctor’s Old-Fashioned Yellow cake mix, which you can find in stores near you or order online.

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Scarlet’s Red Velvet Cupcakes

Dec 12

Scarlet’s Red Velvet Cupcakes

Earlier this year, my publicist Selina Meere asked me to develop a Red Velvet Cupcake in honor of her daughter Scarlet’s first birthday. Here is a terrific Red Velvet cupcake with peppermint frosting, perfect for holiday baking.

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Perfect Deviled Egg

Jul 01

Perfect Deviled Egg

The secret to perfect deviled eggs is to not overcook the eggs. Have fun with the garnishes – fresh herbs, chopped tomato and red onion, crumbled bacon, capers, even caviar.

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Lemon Meringue Pie

Apr 04

Lemon Meringue Pie

Once you crown this lemon pie with meringue, no one will ever guess you started with a pudding mix.

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Nov 14

Saturday Night Fever Pasta

Don’t you just love angel hair pasta? The dry kind cooks in just four minutes! A full-bodied Italian puttanesca sauce is a perfect accompaniment for the delicate pasta. The version here is based on a jar of marinara that you doctor with store-bought black-olive paste, capers, and hot red pepper flakes.

The Best Red Velvet Cake

Nov 11

The Best Red Velvet Cake

What best to bake for your Valentines? The Best Red Velvet Cake from The Cake Mix Doctor Returns! This wacky but wonderful cake is redder than a traffic light, and the flavor? Well, it will stop you in your tracks.

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Nov 09

School Morning Waffles

Mornings are frantic at our house when school is in session. Luring the children from their warm beds, getting breakfast on the table, and locating missing shoes and math homework is exhausting.

Nov 08

Lemon Lovers’ White Chocolate Cake

When I offered my husband, John, a piece of this lemon cake after dinner one night, he said with a grin, This is incredible, but too bad you can’t use it in the chocolate book. Well, of course I can.


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The Books

The Cake Mix Doctor Returns!

The Cake Mix Doctor Returns!

What could be better than a phenomenon? The return of a phenomenon. Ten years ago Anne Byrn's The Cake Mix Doctor began its extraordinary run as one of the most popular baking books of all time. Now Anne Byrn is back with the all-new Cake Mix Doctor Returns!

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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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