Since we are entering holiday baking season you may want to whip up something new and exciting. If you ever wanted to recreate your favorite snack cake we have the perfect kit for you. The Hostess Party Size Twinkies Baking Kit is now available at Walmart

Giant Twinkie

The kit contains sponge cake mix, cream filling and pan with easy to follow instructions. This super-sized snack cake kit makes enough for 12 servings. 

The Hostess Party Size Twinkies Baking Kit retails for 14.98. 

—Jennifer Swartvagher

Featured photo: Walmart

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We don’t know about you, but we are looking forward to holiday baking. The Funfetti winter cake and frosting collection is starting to pop up on shelves. Celebrate the next snowy day at home with a batch of colorful cupcakes adorned with candy snowflakes. 

Funfetti WInter

The new whimsical Funfetti Winter Vanilla Cake and Cupcake Mix features blue, green and yellow candy bits in every bite. The icing on the cake (literally) is the Light Blue Funfetti Winter Frosting that comes with snowflake-shaped sprinkles. 

Funfetti Winter

You can find this new Funfetti cake mix and frosting at Walmart retailing for $1.34 each. 

—Jennifer Swartvagher

All photos courtesy 

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Cue up your favorite holiday movies and get ready to enjoy a sweet treat. If you are excited for Duncan Hines Holiday Mega Cookie, then you are going to love their new winter-inspired treat. Teaming up with Swiss Miss the popular baking brand is releasing a new hot cocoa baking mix and frosting. 

Hot Cocoa Baking Mix

Duncan Hines Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa Flavored Boxed Cake Mix: Rolling out to grocers and retailers nationwide in November, this holiday must-have cake mix is practically a baking hack and is made with rich cocoa simply requires 3 eggs, a cup of water and a ½ cup of vegetable oil.

Hot Cocoa Frosting

Duncan Hines Swiss Miss Creamy Hot Cocoa Frosting: Hitting shelves nationwide in November the indulgent collab is the perfect topping to any baked good this season.

Top your cake (or cupcakes) with mini marshmallows and a sprinkle of cocoa powder for the ultimate holiday dessert.

—Jennifer Swartvagher

All photos courtesy of Duncan Hines

 

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If your kids are slime obsessed have we got the treat for you. Pillsbury Baking is introducing three exciting new products that finally make slime as delicious to eat as it is fun to play with. New Funfetti Slime Frosting, Funfetti Slime Cake Mix and Funfetti Slime Brownie Mix are the perfect treats for any Halloween celebration. 

Funfetti Slime

“For over 100 years, Pillsbury Baking has shared exciting and innovative products that invite families to share the joy of baking delicious treats together at home, especially around holidays,” said Dan Anglemyer, COO of Hometown Food Company. “This Halloween, whether families plan to trick-or-treat, attend a small gathering or celebrate with family and friends virtually, Funfetti™ brings the slimy, the spooky and the fun to any festivity.”

Funfetti Slime Cake Mix

Funfetti Slime
The wickedly awesome Funfetti Slime Cake Mix is a chocolate cake mix – the first-ever in Funfetti’s seasonal line – and includes green, purple, orange and white candy bits. 

 

Funfetti Slime Frosting

Funfetti Slime

The colorful cake mix is made more ‘faBOOlous’ once decorated with vanilla flavored Funfetti Slime Frosting that is slime green with purple and black sprinkles, plus black-and-white eyeball sprinkles for eerie fun.

 

Funfetti Slime Brownie Mix

Funfetti Slime

You’ll earn extra brownie points for the devilishly delicious Funfetti Slime Brownie Mix that’s disguised with purple, green and white candy bits. Families can add some excitement by frosting them with Funfetti Slime Frosting and making their own monster creations.

Funfetti baking mixes and frostings are now available in the baking aisles of grocery and mass merchandise stores nationwide. Funfetti frostings retail for $1.30 to $2.50 each, Funfetti cake mixes retail for $1.30 to $2.30, and Funfetti brownie mixes retail for $1.85 to $2.35. For more information, baking tips, recipes and activity ideas, visit PillsburyBaking.com or follow @PillsburyBaking on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

—Jennifer Swartvagher

All photos courtesy of Pillsbury

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It’s time to get spooky in the kitchen! Duncan Hines has launched a Halloween Baking Kit perfect for fun-filled family time, Halloween parties or everyday fun. This spooktacular kit comes with all of your baking needs including cake mix, brownie mix, frostings, assorted candies and a decorating inspiration card to help you make some ghoulish creations. 

Duncan Hines Halloween Baking Kit

Make your own spooky creation or follow the enclosed inspiration card to create frighteningly tasty Halloween goodies. Decorate your treats with Spooky Spiders Gummi Candy, Bulging Eyeballs Gummi Candy and Candy Corn. 

Duncan Hines Halloween Baking Kit

The Duncan Hines Halloween Baking Kit is available today on Amazon.

—Jennifer Swartvagher

All photos courtesy of Duncan Hines

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Grab your whisk and favorite mixing bowl. Duncan Hines is now offering its Ultimate Baking Kit complete with all the dry goods you’ll need to make multiple desserts. Turn baking into a fun group activity with the kids or tackle each dessert one by one when you order this set. 

Ultimate Baking Kit
Now you don’t have to make multiple trips up and down the baking and candy aisles to ensure you have everything you need to create an awesome brownie or batch of cool cupcakes. 

The Ultimate Baking Kit includes two brownie mixes, a devil’s food cake mix, a classic yellow cake mix, as well as a tub of vanilla and a tub of chocolate frosting. You also get assorted fun toppings like Pop Rocks, Black Forest Gummy Bears and M&Ms. This kit is perfect for a weekend home with the kids. 

The kit retails for $40 and is available on Amazon

—Jennifer Swartvagher

All photos courtesy of Amazon

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Unicorns and mermaids adorn everything your kids own from their toys to their clothes. Now, they can enjoy their favorite mythical creatures at dessert time too. 

Duncan Hines is releasing Mermaid, Unicorn, and Galaxy themed personal-sized cake cups. These colorful desserts are as easy to make as they are pretty. Plus, there’s no cleanup. 

Simply, pop open the lid, add 3 tablespoons of water to the mix and microwave for 1 minute. Don’t stress if the colors don’t look quite right, the batter changes color as it bakes. Top your cake with confetti-like sprinkles and bright melty chips. These mini cakes will have you believing that unicorns are real. 

Mermaid: Vanilla-flavored purple cake mix with colorful pearl-like purple and white sprinkles.

Duncan Hines Mermaid Cake Mix

Unicorn: Vanilla flavored pink cake mix with pink, purple, and white sprinkles.

Duncan Hines Unicorn Cake Mix

Galaxy: Chocolate cake mix with purple and white sprinkles. 

Duncan Hines Galaxy Cake Mix

All three varieties will be hitting store shelves in February. Each individual cup retails for $1.65.

—Jennifer Swartvagher

Photos courtesy of Duncan Hines.

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As if unicorn ice cream, cereal, Frappucinos and mac ‘n’ cheese weren’t enough rainbow one-horned goodness, now you can add personal-sized cake cups to the list. Recent rumors point to a soon-to-be released Unicorn Cookies and Pudding cup straight from the geniuses at Duncan Hines.

With purple frosting and star sprinkles, the cookies and pudding confection is sure to bring smiles to your kiddo’s face—and yours too. So what do we know about the impending unicorn awesomeness?

To start with, the unicorn-themed treat is still yet to hit store shelves. While there’s no release date for possibly the most magical product in Duncan Hines’ lineup, the brand’s parent company (Conagra Brands, Inc.) confirmed to PEOPLE that yes, this is a real thing they’re testing. Reps for Conagra also added, “The Cake Cup is in our innovation pipeline, but still in development.”

For now, we’ll all have to wait for the IRL version of the Unicorn Cookies and Pudding cup. But if you’re in the mood to snack, and have no interest in baking an entire cake, Duncan Hines’ Perfect Size for 1 cup line already includes Honey Maid S’mores, Chips Ahoy and Oreos!

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Let’s face it: instant pudding is the lazy person’s dessert and we are totally fine with that. But what if we told you that those magic little packets can not only make pudding immediately, they can also elevate your other desserts with minimal effort? Impress your family, your friends and your co-workers with these simple but oh-so-effective pudding hacks. Scroll down to learn more.

photo: Kevin Micalizzi via flickr

 

1. Add it to cookies.

Adding a pouch of pudding mix to any cookie recipe will take your cookie from yum to OMFG in seconds. Literally, seconds. Try out these Peanut Butter S’more Cookies from Chef in Training.

2. Add it to cake.

If you are making a chocolate cake from scratch or a mix, just make a quick batch of pudding and stir it in. Cut back a little on the other wet ingredients as needed. Or, if you’re really feeling low-key, just dump the package into the cake mix for flavor. Add milk instead of water if you want to blow their cake-eating minds. And yes you can, and should, also try this with brownies. 

3. Inject it into cupcakes. 

There are two ways to go about getting pudding inside your cupcakes. The easy method: slice off the tops and gently scoop out a spoonful of cupcake and then glob in a spoonful of pudding in its place. Replace the cupcake top and frost. The next-level method: using a baster or (better yet) a culinary syringe, shoot pudding inside your cupcake. This will be less of a filling and more of an overall moistening. And that is ay-okay.

4. Make frosting with it.

Since you’re going for it, add any flavor pudding mix to your basic frosting (powdered sugar and milk). Take it old-school and simple, like Spoon University and add Cool Whip too.

5. Pudding pops, of course.

We know, you already know you can turn instant pudding into popsicles. But did you know you can toss pudding mix, strawberries and milk into a blender and then pour into the molds for strawberry pudding pops? Apply this same theory to raspberries, coconut or whatever you fancy.

6. Yo, gurt! Plus, a fakeout.

Stir a couple teaspoons of instant chocolate pudding mix into plain or vanilla yogurt for a chocolate pudding vibe with a few less calories and sugar. Want to go lower? Just use cocoa powder mixed into your yogurt and call it pudding. They will probably not notice.

7. Layer it on.

Did somebody say parfait? Get crazy with your pudding and other yummy stuff layers to customize just the way kids like it. Just whip up a batch of your fave instant pudding, then grab a few glass jars or wine glasses. Add your pudding to the bottom and alternate with layers of whipped cream and your choice: we love cake chunks, cookie crumbles, fresh fruit, donuts, cinnamon rolls and even candy bars. Nobody said this would be low fat.

What are your favorite instant pudding hacks? Tell us in a comment below. 

 

Photo: elsapatakyconfidential via Instagram

To be an awesome dad, you don’t need to buy the fanciest cake in the shop for your daughter birthday. If you’re like actor and dad-crush Chris Hemsworth, all you need is cake mix and some muscle (seriously – look at those guns!)

Chris’s wife, Elsa Pataky, posted the adorable photos of her hubby baking a dinosaur cake for their daughter India’s birthday.

 

On his own Instagram, Chris explained that the bakery didn’t have enough time to make a cake, so he decided to whip one up himself.

 

Happy Birthday India!

Do you love baking goodies for your kids? Tell us in the comments below!