It's no surprise that Pillsbury products are a staple in the baking aisle, considering that the company has been around since 1869, and was the first to ever sell chocolate cake mix. Through the ...

Gently fold the dry ingredients into the wet mix using a large spoon until you're left with a luscious cake batter. Split the cake mix into the three cake tins and pop each one in the microwave.

Read all the stories from Slate’s 25 Most Important American Recipes ... cake’s gooey center. And so when, at some point in the following decades, Pillsbury discontinued its powdered frosting ...

The chocolate “lava cake ... the winning recipes were “shortcutted, streamlined, and up-to-dated for you” in the company’s test kitchen, with an eye toward using new Pillsbury products ...