Dark chocolate cake mix is best: I like to use a dark chocolate or devil's food cake mix for my brownies as that will make the richest, fudgiest browines.

This strawberry brownies recipe turns cake mix into fruity pink bars iced with strawberry glaze! Rich, pretty, and way more fun than your usual brownies.

Where brownies were once almost cake-like, many recipes call for just enough flour to bind the other ingredients, resulting in brownies bordering more on fudge.

I’ve made “healthy-ish” brownies with avocado sneaked in. I’ve made caramel-topped brownies, brownies with tahini swirls, even the slightly controversial “cake-like” brownies.

For several years, I have used a cake-mix cookie recipe to make brownies. I use chocolate cake mix and add chocolate chips.

The ingredients in this recipe are insane—marshmallows, popcorn, chocolate graham- cracker cookies and candy corn. How could these crunchy-sweet balls of joy not be on everyone’s hit list?

Cakey brownies are ultimately light, moist and airy, with a cake-like interior, whereas fudgy brownies are dense and gooey, with a thick fudge texture.

Where brownies were once almost cake-like, many recipes call for just enough flour to bind the other ingredients, resulting in brownies bordering more on fudge.

Where brownies were once almost cake-like, many recipes call for just enough flour to bind the other ingredients, resulting in brownies bordering more on fudge.