Article: Out of the box Cake mix a reliable start to special occasions.(Food)

Byline: Deborah Pankey Daily Herald Food Editor

Your son graduates from college next week. Maybe you're hosting a baby shower for your neighbor. Whatever the occasion, you're short on time and need to come up with a knock-'em-dead dessert.

Don't turn to the corner bakery, open your pantry.

If you're like many Americans, a box of cake mix, maybe even two, sits up on a shelf.

A boxed cake for a special occasion? You gasp.

Yes. But we're going to do that cake mix one better.

"It's certainly a decision for the majority of people: to make a cake from scratch or from a mix," said Anne Bryn, author of the "Cake Mix Doctor" ...

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