This pistachio gooey butter cake recipe is semi-homemade (hat tip to boxed cake mix), but tastes like you made it from scratch thanks to upgrades like eggs, butter, cream cheese, and pistachio cream.

A selection of roll cakes ($6.50-$8 each) at Temp & Time in Menlo Park. Photo by Adrienne Mitchel. Tucked behind a Japanese izakaya along El Camino Real is a small white building with a sign reading ...