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I cook a lot, and I’m on a mission to make meals as easy and simple as possible most of the time. And to be honest I’m not that great at making cakes from scratch (I really struggled to get this purple Ube cake right, for example, and I’m still tweaking it), so when it’s time to make dessert, I break out box cake mix recipes like these. From cobbler to lava cake, poke cakes and cupcakes, bars and cookies, I hope there’s something you try from this list.
Apple Coffee Cake With Apple Pie Filling
You get this apple coffee cake by combining a soft vanilla cake with a ribbon of apple pie filling and a thick cinnamon crumble that bakes into craggy, golden clusters. As it bakes, the filling sinks into the batter and the crumb top gets tender and crisp all at once, then an optional glaze goes on once it cools.
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Apple Dump Cake (3 Ingredients, One Dish)
Apple dump cake has been around almost as long as the boxed cake mix and canned pie filling. Combine the two with some pats of butter and you get a sweet casserole that is like a fruit cobbler with a crackly top.
Apple Pie Filling Cookies (4 Easy Ingredients)
These soft apple pie filling cookies use just four ingredients: a spice cake mix, unsweetened applesauce, chopped apple pie filling, and a caramel drizzle. (No eggs or oil!) Cookies from a cake mix recipes like these bake up more like the top of a luscious muffin than a crisp cookie, full of jammy apples and spice-cake flavor.
Apple Pie Filling Muffins
These apple pie filling muffins come from just three ingredients, a box of spice cake mix, a can of apple pie filling, plus eggs. You get tender, sweet muffins without the fuss of homemade.
BEST Candy Corn Flower Cupcakes: Great Fall Ideas!
If the kid in you still loves candy corn, you’ll love these so-simple Candy Corn Flower Cupcakes you can make at home in a flash! Arranged in an artful (but easy) flower shape on the top of homemade OR store-bought cupcakes, it will look like you were inspired by Monet himself!
Boston Cream Pie Cookie Cups (Mini Dessert Recipe)
These Boston Cream Pie Cookie Cups are soft, creamy, and topped with chocolate ganache. Inspired by the classic dessert we all love, this mini version is easier to make—and way more fun to eat!
Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
As the bars bake, the butter softens the cake mix into a rich, chewy dough. They come out of the oven golden and loaded with melted chocolate chips.
Cake Mix Snickerdoodles
While my love affair with cake and cookies carries on, my MARRIAGE to box cake mixes is watertight. They are the way to flawless finishes and creative confections.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies (4 Ingredients & No Chill Time!)
These chocolate crinkle cookies are rich, chewy, and covered in powdered sugar. These cookies come together fast with no fuss and are made with cake mix and Cool Whip.
Chocolate Mug Cake Mix
When the craving for cake hits but you don’t want to turn on the oven, this Chocolate Mug Cake Mix delivers a tender, airy crumb in just one microwave minute. The mix marries the lightness of angel food cake with the deep cocoa of devil’s food, whisked together into a pantry staple that feels indulgent without effort.
Cinnamon Roll Poke Cake (Moist, Spiced & Frosted)
When warm cake meets spiced sugar and cream cheese frosting, you get a dessert that is equal parts tender, sticky, and fragrant. The yellow cake soaks up a buttery stream of sweetened condensed milk, brown sugar, and cinnamon, leaving it moist all the way through.
Crockpot Pumpkin Cobbler (Easy Slow Cooker Dessert)
As the pumpkin puree warms slowly in the crockpot, it absorbs the spice of cinnamon and nutmeg until the mixture thickens into a custardy base. A crumbly topping of yellow cake mix and butter settles over the surface, turning golden and crisp at the edges while staying tender where it meets the pumpkin beneath.
Easy Apple Cobbler Recipe With Apple Pie Filling
What’s great about this apple cobbler is that the topping isn’t just a pale, flavorless biscuit-style breading, often the standard when it comes to a southern-style cobbler. This one uses a box of butter cake mix —lots of rich, sweet buttery vanilla flavor with cans of apple pie filling, so no peeling and dicing.
Easy Baked Apple Cider Donuts: No Deep Fryer or Yeast Proofing
You won’t need a deep fryer for this one. Get homemade flavor with this baked apple cider donuts recipe: I stir spice cake mix, applesauce and apple cider (not juice) into one bowl and the batter comes out thick.
Easy Cinnamon Cupcakes From A Box Cake Mix
Cinnamon lovers, unite. This recipe for cinnamon cupcakes is made from a simple box cake mix and turned into that spiced dessert you can’t resist.
Easy Lemon Cookie Recipe You Can Make with a Box Cake Mix!
Yes, you can make lemon cookies with a cake mix. It is such a simple recipe and they taste insanely delicious.
Easy Mini Pumpkin Bundt Cake
So make an adorable, easy Mini Pumpkin Bundt Cake and serve a few at your next brunch and of course, around the fall season! This mini bundt pumpkin cake simply and easily doctors up a box of spice cake mix.
Easy Monster Cupcakes – For Halloween Or Anytime Of Year!
These adorable Monster Cupcakes fit right in for Halloween, themed showers, birthdays, or any time! Some green icing for fur, candy eyeballs, candy corn for spikes, and cupcakes—that’s all you need to make it a fun dessert or snack for your upcoming spooky Halloween party!
Festive Christmas Jello Cake Recipe: Light, Fruity & Easy
Imagine layers of fluffy white cake, vibrant strawberry, and lime Jello, with a Cool Whip frosting! Yes, it is going to be your show-stopping holiday centerpiece.
Heath Bar Poke Cake
A moist devil’s food chocolate poke cake soaked in caramel topping and sweetened condensed milk, topped with Cool Whip and bits of Heath Bar toffee.
Honey Bun Cake: Sweet, Gooey Layers with Cinnamon Swirl
This cake takes delicious to the next level with buttery layers, a rich cinnamon sugar swirl, and an oh-so-creamy frosting. This cake is easy to make and a perfect dessert for the family.
How To Make Cake Balls
Want to know how to make cake balls for the first time? Here’s our easy method for white cake balls in tasty white chocolate coating.
Irresistible Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
These Cake Mix Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies are another one of those easy, fast recipes that use pantry items. Boxed cake mix recipes allow me to just get something together hot and yummy without running to the store or worrying about how long it will take me.
Italian Hangover Cake Recipe
This Italian Hangover Cake recipe is our attempt at recreating the trending one-bite review videos on TikTok—a copycat bundt cake made at a now-famous Italian restaurant. This fluffy cake is moist, dense, and deeply layered with the flavor of almond, orange, and vanilla—giving traditional rum cake a run for its money!
Microwave Chocolate Lava Cake: Gooey, Rich & Ready in Minutes
Enter: this microwave chocolate lava cake. In about 10 minutes flat, I go from “mild existential crisis” to spoonfuls of warm, gooey, chocolatey magic—with a molten center that feels like a reward for just making it through the day.
Pumpkin Cookies With Cake Mix
These Pumpkin Cookies made with Spice Cake Mix are super, super easy to throw together. Add an icing glaze and you have a platter of soft cookies packed with fall flavor pretty enough to take to a potluck or offer on your Thanksgiving dessert table.
Snowman Cake Pops: Fun, Festive With No Decorating Skills Required! ☃️
Snowman Cake Pops are fun and easy to make—no cake decorating skills required! ☃️ Just dip rolled-up white cake into melted white chocolate and you’re practically done.
Soft & Chewy Lemon Cool Whip Cookies (Easy 4-Ingredient Recipe)
For a quick and simple lemon dessert, these Lemon Cool Whip Cookies will brighten your day! Only four ingredients needed, ready and out of the oven in less than 30 minutes!
Cupcake Game-Changer: How to Doctor Cake Mix🧁
We’ve cracked the code to the ultimate cupcakes with a twist you won’t believe – ice cream in the batter! That’s right, not as a topping, but as the star ingredient mixed right in.
Wedding Cake Cupcakes Recipe
These White Wedding Cupcakes start with a high-quality boxed cake mix, baking into a pale, fine crumb with a vanilla scent that lingers as they cool on the rack. Sour cream keeps the batter moist, while the extra flour and sugar give these white cupcakes a sturdier, bakery-style texture that holds its shape under a swoop of buttercream frosting.
