What to Make with Box Cake Mix
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It's always fun trying to figure out different thing to make with cake mixes. Here's some recipes that I have used. Also see the Punch Bowl Cake, it uses yellow cake mix too, and how about a Child's Birthday Cake Idea.
Snowflake Dream Cake
1 pkg yellow cake mix
20 oz
can crushed pineapple, (save juice)
3 oz Cream Cheese
3 oz vanilla pudding
mix (instant)
1 cup milk
8 oz Cool Whip
coconut
nuts (optional)
maraschino
cherries
Add enough water to pineapple juice to use as the liquid in the cake mix. Make the cake (as directed on the box). Place in well greased and floured 9x12 pan. Bake for 20 minutes at 350. Cool and leave in pan. With mixer, blend cream cheese, pudding, and milk. Fold in drained pineapple. Spread over cooled cake. Then spread with cool whip. Sprinkle with coconut and nuts. Cool in refrigerator for several hours. Cut into squares. Serve with maraschino cherry on top.
Ugly Duckling Cake
1 pkg. yellow cake mix
1 can fruit
cocktail
2 1/3 cup coconut
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2
cup evaporated milk
Combine cake mix, cocktail with the syrup and 1 cup of the coconut and eggs in a large bowl. Blend, then beat for 2 minutes. Pour into a greased 13x9 pan Bake until cake springs back when touched. Bring butter, sugar and milk to a boil. Add rest of coconut and optional pecans. Spoon over hot cake in pan. Serve warm or cool
Sock It To Me Cake
1 box
butter cake mix
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 Kraft or Wesson oil
4
eggs (one at a time)
Chop 1/4 cup nuts, mix with 2 tbsp. brown sugar and 1-1/4 tsp. cinnamon. Put half cake batter in pan. Put nut mixtute over it, then add rest of batter. Bake 1 hour at 325. Let cake set 15 minutes after it is baked, before turning upside down on cake plate. When cool sprinkle cake with small amount of powdered sugar. Use Bundt cake pan.
Pig Eating Good Cake
1
box Duncan Hines Butter yellow cake mix
4 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 can mandarin
oranges drained
Mix this altogether. Bake at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes.
Frosting:
13
and 1/2 oz tub of Cool Whip
1 pkg instant coconut cream pudding
1 can crushed
pineapple, drained
Dump Cake
Cherry pineapple dump cake recipe. Just dump it!
1 box yellow cake mix
1 can cherry pie filling
1
can crushed pinapple-drained
2 sticks of butter
Heat oven to 350 In a 13x9 pan Dump a can of crushed pinapple and spread it Dump a can of cherry filling on it and spread. Dump the cake mix on it Slice pieces of butter and dot the top Place in oven 350 for 35 min.
Tip: You can also mix the softened butter with the mix and sprinkle on the top for more of a fruit crisp.
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
1 pkg. yellow cake mix
1 small can pineapple rings
1/2
brown sugar
1/2 stick butter
jar of cherries(optional)
Preheat oven to 325. Put a deep cast iron skillet with the butter in the oven till it melts. Open your can of juice and drain. Use the juice as part of the liquid for the cake mix. Prepare your yellow cake mix. Take skillet out of the oven, mix the brown sugar in the butter. Place the circles of sliced pineapple in the pan. Put your cherries in the center of each pineapple ring. Pour all the cake batter in. Put in oven. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes. Check with a toothpick. If it comes out clean, then the center is done.
Take the skillet out of the oven, let
it cool for 10 minutes, then carefully place a large plate on top of the skillet
and flip it over. This makes a deep cake. Using a cast iron skillet works best,
but if you don't have one then just use a deep heavy skillet. Also try using a
circular mold like a bundt pan or angel food cake pan.
Yellow Cake and Icing
1 box yellow
cake mix
1/4 cup oleo
Mix cake as directed on box adding melted oleo.
Icing:
2 cups brown sugar and 1/2 cup oleo.
Cream oleo margarine and brown sugar.
Put this mixture in bottom of 9x12x2 cake pan. Pour batter over top of sugar.
Bake at 375 degrees preheated oven until toothpick test comes out clean, or as
directed on cake box.
Strawberry Jello Cake
Preheat oven to 350
1
box white cake mix and the ingredients that are on the box.
1 box frozen strawberries
1
container Cool Whip
1 box strawberry jello
Bake white cake mix as
directed on the box. When cake is done, immediately punch holes in cake with a
meat fork. Fix jello as directed on box. Pour over cake. Let refrigerate about
3 hours. Then mix the strawberries with cool whip. Spread over top.
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Here's a recipe for Turtle Cake - It uses German Chocolate Cake Mix
Pineapple Cheesecake uses a yellow cake mix.
This Lemony Cake recipe uses a yellow cake mix and lemon jello.
Here's a Chocolate Cherry Cake recipe that uses a box of chocolate cake mix.
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Pan Cookies or Bars to make with cake mixes!
Speedy Little Devils
1 devil's food cake mix
1 stick
butter or margarine, melted
3/4 to 1 cup peanut butter
1 jar of marshmallow
creme (large or small)
Combine melted butter and dry cake mix. Reserve
1 1/2 cups for the top crust. Pat remaining crumb mixture into ungreased 9x13
inch pan. Combine peanut butter and marshmallow creme. (I use 1 cup with large
jar) Carefully spread over crust. Crumble remaining mixture over that. Bake at
350 for 20 minutes. Cool.
Recipe from 1998 church cookbook
Note: I made these for a pot
luck, and even though most of them got ate, I thought they were too
dry. Interesting, but I will not be making them again.
Gooey
Batter Cake Bars
1 pkg yellow cake mix
1
stick butter or margarine
2 eggs
Topping:
1 lb powdered sugar
2
eggs
1 (8oz) pkg. cream cheese
Spread mix in 9x13 inch greased pan.
Beat topping together and spread on cake mixture. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
Dust with powdered sugar.
Recipe from a 1981 cookbook
Millionaire Bars
14 oz caramel
1/3 cup evaporated milk
1/3 cup evaporated
milk
1 box German Chocolate Cake Mix
1/2 cup butter (melted)
1 cup walnuts
1
pkg milk chocolate chips
Melt caramel and 1/3 cup evaporated milk in
double boiler over low heat. Set aside.
Mix cake mix, butter and 1/3 cup milk.
Press one half mixture into 13x9 pan (sprayed with non-stick Pam). Bake 10 minutes
at 350. Spread on melted caramel. Add chips and nuts. Place other half of cake
mix in dollops on top. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.
Apple Bars made from Cake Mix
If you have a cake mix and can of apple pie filling this sounds like a tasty easy recipe. Seems like you could use other flavors of pie filling too.
3/4 cup soft
butter or margarine
1 pkg white or yellow cake mix
1 can apple pie filling
1/2
cup flaked coconut
In a large bowl cut butter into cake mix. Set aside 1 cup. Press remaining mixture into a 13 x 9 pan. Spoon apple pie filling evenly over cake mixture. In a small bowl combine reserve cake mixture and coconut, sprinkle over pie filling. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Cool slightly before cutting into 3 x 1 1/2 inch bars.
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Cake Mix Cookies Recipes!
Cake Mix Cookies
1 box of any flavor
2 layer cake mix
2 large eggs
1/2 cup oil
Mix altogether in large bowl until well blended. Add 1 cup of chocolate chips, nuts, candies and mix them in. Drop by teaspoon on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 until done approx. 7-9 minutes. Cool for a few minutes
Cake Mix Cookies
1
box white cake mix
1/4 c. brown sugar
1 c. chocolate chips
1/2 c. chopped
nuts
3/4 c. oil
1 egg
Mix well. Form into balls and flatten. Bake
375, 10 to 12 min.
Recipe from a 1983 cookbook
Cream Cheese Cookies
1/4
cup butter or margarine
1 pkg. - 8 oz cream cheese
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1
yellow or devils food cake mix
Cream butter and cheese, blend in egg and vanilla. Add dry cake mix, 1/3 at a time, mixing well after each addition. If mixer is used add last 1/3 by hand. Cover and chill 30 minutes. Heat oven to 350.
Drop by scant tsp. on ungreased baking sheet. Bake 5 to 8 minutes or until slightly browned. Cool slightly before removing from baking sheet. 4 to 6 doz. cookies.
Note: For some reason mine turn out browner on the bottom, even when they are slighly brown on top, so be sure to check them after 5 min. Maybe my rack is too low? These are the best cake mix cookies I have ever tasted. Next to them are my Thumbprint Cookies
_______________________________________Miscellaneous recipes for cake mixes!
Ice Cream Sandwiches
1
egg
1/2 cup shortening
1/4 c. butter, softened
1 tsp. vanilla
1 pkg.
devil's food cake mix
ice cream (any flavor)
Preheat oven to 375. Beat egg, shortening, butter, vanilla and 1/2 of the cake mix until smooth. Then stir in remaining cake mix until smooth. Roll dough out and cut any desired shape or square. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Poke holes in when fresh out of the oven. Put ice cream between and freeze.
Cake Mix Apple Crisp
8-10 granny smith apples
1 yellow cake mix
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
1/2
cup butter - melted
Preheat oven to 350. Peel and slice apples thin.
Lay apples on bottom of pan. Mix the rest of ingredients in bowl until crumbly
and spoon over apples. Bake 35 - 40 minutes until apples are tender. Serve with
vanilla ice cream. Makes one 9x13 pan
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