1. If you want plain cake layers on the top and bottom of your cake, bake a cake from a yellow cake mix in 2 round, 9-inch pans. Only one cake layer is required for this recipe; you can use the ...

I baked a cake in a Bundt pan for a dinner party. For lack of that particular tube pan, I could have divvied up the recipe’s same batter into two 8- or 9-inch round cake pans. If dessert were required ...