To those moms with their secret, from-scratch recipes ... who says anything's wrong with boxed cake mix? Especially when you create something as delicious as this lemon poke cake by Something Swanky! From start to finish (including chilling), this cake takes 20 minutes to make. The recipe features a box of lemon cake mix, super easy-to-make lemon curd, Cool Whip, white chocolate chips, and pecans -- an overall perfect summer dessert.
Sharlyn Petit is a Northwest-obsessed, annoying iPhone food-documenting, day-tripping fool. By day, she's an HR communications specialist, but she spends every other waking minute as a freelance writer and editor for food, travel and lifestyle content. Born in Hawaii and raised in Alaska, she left the coconuts and survival camps behind long ago for a quiet life in the Emerald City with her French husband.