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Cake mix is your secret weapon for amazing desserts! Think outside the cake pan because with a sprinkle of creativity, you can whip up cookies, blondies, dump cakes, and SO much more. Lemon cookies? Birthday cake blondies? Grab your favorite box of cake mix and get ready for deliciousness! It’s easy, it’s fun, and it’s the perfect baking shortcut everyone will love.
Strawberry Lemonade Cake Mix Crinkle Cookies
One of the best things about these strawberry lemonade cake mix crinkle cookies is how simple they are to make. Using lemon cake mix makes light work of this recipe. These lemon and strawberry cookies are so good. Pink lemonade crinkle cookies are always a hit!
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Funfetti Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes
Funfetti and buttercream ice cream cone cupcakes are fun and cute. These homemade cake cones are easy to make using Funfetti cake mix.
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Valentine Crinkle Cookies
I made these Valentine Crinkle Cookies for Valentine’s Day. These cake mix cookies are the best easy Valentine’s crinkle cookies. Pink cookies with pink hearts are definitely the way to celebrate with your Valentine.
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Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies
These Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies are made from a few simple ingredients and are so delicious. They are topped with a drizzle of white chocolate and sprinkles, making them perfect for Valentine’s Day or any time you need a quick and easy dessert!
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Birthday Cake Blondies (Made With Cake Mix) Recipe
Birthday Cake Blondies combine rainbow sprinkles, a yellow box cake mix, and 4 pantry staple ingredients to make a deliciously chewy treat!
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Lemon Cheesecake Loaf
This easy Lemon Cheesecake Loaf recipe is the perfect dessert for lemon lovers. It combines an easy shortcut of lemon cake mix and instant lemon pudding for a light and tangy base, and the cheesecake filling is swirled throughout the loaf for a delicious surprise in every bite. The cake is topped with a simple tangy and sweet icing, adding the perfect finishing touch.
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Strawberry Dump Cake With Fresh Strawberries
This Strawberry Dump Cake will delight you and your family and have everybody coming back for more. This quick and easy dessert combines sweet strawberries and a delectable buttery cake mix crumb topping, creating a refreshing and irresistible treat.
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Coconut Rum Cake
Coconut Rum Cake is made with vanilla cake mix, sweet coconut, and spiced coconut rum. It’s a special adult dessert for holidays and celebrations!
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Cake Mix Brownies
Decadent, easy, and delicious, these cake mix brownies are sure to satisfy any chocolate craving in no time.
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Cake Mix Cookie Bars
These Cake Mix Cookie Bars are chockfull of sprinkles and cake batter flavor! They are easy to make with the help of a cake mix.
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Puppy Cake Pops (Chocolate Cake Pops)
These puppy cake pops are not only super cute, they’re actually extremely delicious, with a peanut butter and chocolate flavor combo.
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Apple Spice Dump Cake
Our Apple Spice Dump Cake is an instant hit – sweet, moist, and a breeze to prepare. Enjoy this delicious blend of sweet apple filling, spicy cake mix, and a pop of fizzy ginger ale, creating a textured and flavorful dessert.
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Chocolate Kahlua Cake
This recipe for rich, decadent Chocolate Kahlua Cake lets you have a truly sensational cake in record time.
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Banana Split Dump Cake
This Banana Split Dump Cake is filled with cherries, strawberries, pineapple, vanilla ice cream, banana bread and cake mix, and sprinkles.
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5-Ingredient Banana Pudding Cake
This Banana Pudding Cake is superior in moistness, tender in texture, and huge on banana flavor! Easy 5-ingredient recipe!
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Lemon Cake Mix Cookies
This easy cookie recipe will make you want to experiment even more in the kitchen. Using fresh lemon juice and a lemon cake mix, you’ll have cookies that are soft and loaded with flavor!
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Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake
Lemon Blueberry Cake is the perfect dessert for spring! With both gluten-free and refined sugar-free options and made with just five ingredients, this is the perfect recipe to fit all your baking needs.
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Fudgy Red Velvet Cake Mix Brownies (Easy!)
These rich and fudgy red velvet cake mix brownies are easy to make with only 4 ingredients. White chocolate chips add even more flavor!
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Easy Chocolate Cake
The best chocolate cake from a box couldn’t be easier, thanks to 4 simple tweaks that take that mix to the next level!
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Cinnamon Roll Poke Cake
Dessert isn’t much better than Cinnamon Roll Poke Cake. It is a tender white cake filled with buttery cinnamon-sugar filling and rich cream cheese frosting!
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Rainbow Bundt Cake (using Boxed Cake Mix!)
The happiest bundt you ever did see, this Rainbow Bundt Cake beefs up boxed cake mix to make a colorful and moist cake with a vanilla glaze kids and adults will love.
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Cool Whip Cookies with Cake Mix
With only 4 ingredients, this cool whip cookies are on our easy list. They can be made in under 30 minutes and use a cake mix which offers so much more flavor! Rich and colorful, make these cookies for any sort of celebration!
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Coke Cake
2-ingredient Coke cake is pretty much the easiest recipe around. When you can bake with cake mix and a can of Coke, you can’t go wrong!
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Quick Copycat Piecaken
Piecaken is a pecan pie, topped with a pumpkin pie, topped with a spice cake, topped with frosting and apple pie filling. It’s fantastic.
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Dump Cake Recipe
A dump cake is a quick and effortless fruit dessert with canned pie filling and a cake mix topping. It’s a crowd-pleaser and freezes well.
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Birthday Cake Mix Waffles
Cake mix waffles are the best birthday breakfast. Doused in whipped cream, maple syrup and sprinkles. these waffles are easy and fun to make!
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Lemon Cake Mix Cookies
Lemon cake mix cookies are perfect for bake sales, baby showers, or an easy afternoon snack. Whip up a baker’s dozen in less than 30 minutes!
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Bear Paw Cookies With Cake Mix
Get ready for a baking adventure with our 4-ingredient cake mix cookies recipe – Bear Paw cookies that are as cute as they are tasty!
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Cream Cheese Pineapple Pound Cake
Deliciously moist and tangy, cream cheese pineapple pound cake offers a tropical twist on a classic treat that’s perfect for any occasion.
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Red Velvet Cookies
These easy red velvet cookies start with a cake mix and are loaded with white chocolate chips. A simple yet impressive cookie that yields fabulous results. Sometimes you just want a quick and easy treat without spending hours in the kitchen. These chewy red velvet cookies couldn’t be any easier to make. They’re an eye-catching dessert that everyone goes crazy over on Christmas or Valentine’s Day! And it all starts with a red velvet cake mix.
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Apple Cranberry Cobbler Recipe
This cranberry apple cobbler topped with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream is one of my favorite desserts. This recipe is asy to make, you can turn an ordinary cake mix into this extraordinary cranberry apple cobbler dessert.
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Red Velvet Cookies
Valentine’s Day Red Velvet Cookies are an easy-to-make dessert with a boxed cake mix base that is decorated with chocolate and sprinkles!
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Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
Thank you SO much for including 2 of my recipes in this fun round up! Cake mix for the win! 🙂