If you don’t own one of Anne Byrn’s Cake Doctor cookbooks, you don’t know what you’re missing. The original version was published more than 10 years ago and is still just as popular as it was back then.

Creating more involved dessert recipes from a boxed cake mix is something that I’ve found quite enjoyable. With the help of one of Anne’s books, I think you will too.

Her newest cookbook, Cake Mix Doctor Returns, features 160 totally new cake mix recipes. There are 16 cupcake and muffin recipes, 38 Bundt and pound cake recipes, 40 layer cake recipes and much more. Cookies and wedding cake and Whoopie Pies, oh my!

As prices at the grocery store continue to rise, a yummy piece of cake can still be a terrific, inexpensive, pleasure.

(If there was some way to magically extract the calories, it would be the PERFECT dessert. Don’t you think?)

In addition to the initial cookbook and The Cake Doctor Returns, other titles include: The Chocolate Cake Doctor and Cupcakes from the Cake Doctor.

For you cupcake lovers, out there, feel free to read my post on nifty cupcake stands and/or this giant cupcake pan.

Do you own one (or more) of these cookbooks? Please take a minute to tell us what you think of the cake mix recipes, contained within.