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Cake mix maven Anne Byrn shares her new book

Anne Byrn, author of the bestselling The Cake Mix Doctor, doesn’t write recipes calling for cake mix because she’s so smitten with what comes in a box. Rather, she works with cake mix because she believes home bakers who don’t have the time or inclination to start from scratch deserve better.

“I don’t blame you for being frustrated for what’s on the grocer’s shelves,” Byrn writes in the introduction to A New Take on Cake: 175 Beautiful, Doable Cake Mix Recipes for Bundts, Layers, Slabs, Loaves, Cookies, and More!, slated for publication this month.