Pudding Mix is Having a Baking Moment - No. 184

Flashbacks from the Cake Mix Doctor, why eggs are so expensive, and my Chocolate Pistachio Cake recipe.

Chocolate Pistachio Cake from A New Take on Cake. The secret is the pistachio instant pudding mix. Photo: Danielle Atkins. Recipe is below.

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO stopped in the middle of your day to tell me to read Priya Krishna’s New York Times piece on the East Village chef adding pistachio instant pudding mix to his cake. It felt like old times to re…