I've come into about 80 boxes of cake mixes, mostly chocolate, a few white and a few yellow. I would welcome any ideas for these cake mixes besides the obvious. I had a great recipe for brownies using cake mix, but I lost it.
I love using cake mixes for cookies! The basics are as follows:
1 cake mix
1-2 eggs
2 Tbls oil
1/4 cup water
Additions (choc. chips, peanut btr., etc)
Bake for 10 min. at 375.
You can also go to recipegoldmine(dot)com and look at their section for cake mix recipes. My favorite is Easy Lemon Bars. YUMMY!
Here's two I've used for years:
Chewy Cookies
cake mix - your choice
2 eggs
1/3 c. oil
1/4 c. flour
Stir together to form dough. Spoon out onto cookie sheets. Bake at 350, 10-12 mins. Use your imagination to add nuts, coconut, chocolate chips, etc.
Easy Cookies
1 chocolate cake mix
1 large egg
1/2 (8 oz) container cool whip or other whipped topping
1 c. chopped pecans or other nuts
powdered sugar
Combine the first three ingredients - stir well (batter will be sticky). Stir in nuts. Dust hands with powdered sugar and shape dough into small balls. Roll in powdered sugar and put 2 " apart on ungreased sheet. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. Cool on wire racks.
BTW where did you get so many cake mixes?
Wow, with that many cake mixes, it would pay you to get this book "The Cake Doctor" by Anne Byrn. It contains 150 recipes that use cake mixes. The ones I have tried are all excellent. Do you think you will get them used up by expiration date?
This is my favorite recipe using cake mix and it freezes beautifully.
Pumpkin pie cake
1 can pumpkin (29 oz)
4 eggs
1 can evaporated milk (12 oz)
And if you get tired of cake and cookies- make dessert waffles. Just mix up the cake batter as it calls for on the box and pour into a waffle iron. Top the cake waffles with fresh fruit (raspberries with chocolate cake is lovely) and ice cream or whipped cream. Fast, delicious, ... what more could you ask for in a dessert?
Easiest Cake Ever
just 4 ingredients
1 can crushed pineapple
1 can cherry pie filling
1 yellow cake mix (used dry right from box)
1 stick oleo, I, melt mine a little, easier to drizzle over top
In a 9x 13 pan, spread pineapple evenly, same with pie filling, Add dry cake mix, sprinkle evenly, last drizzle oleo over the top.
Bake 350 till golden about 25-30 minutes Good, easy, can be served with Cool Whip, on top Enjoy
1-2-3 Cookies
1-8oz cool whip
2 boxes of cake mix - any flavor
3 eggs
Dump all 3 ingredients together and mix (batter will be thick and sticky). Use silverware spoon and scoop out small spoon fulls of batter on greased cookie sheet. Bake 375 for 9 minutes. I like them slightly under cooked. They freeze well.
Be creative:
Chocolate cake mix cookies- dip in white chocolate
Strawberry cake mix -- roll in powder sugar before you bake
Lemon cake mix -- roll in powder sugar before you bake
Here's a recipe I posted on this website. I always keep several boxes of cake mixes and instant pudding for this one. It's soooo easy and sooooo good and moist! Even better with a scoop of ice cream on the side.
Easy Easy Pound Cake
Ingredients
1 box cake mix
1 small box instant pudding (not the fat free type)
4 eggs
1 cup water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
Directions
Mix all together with beaters and pour into greased and floured bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 40-50 minutes (check with toothpick). Let cool in bundt pan for 20 minutes before inverting onto plate.
You won't be disappointed!
I just picked up a leaflet at our Amish bulk food store to see how much mix to use per cake. The directions were:
3 1/2 c mix to 1 1/4 c water.
Add 3/4 c water to mix and cream 4 minutes. Add 1/2 c water and scrape bowl and mix until smooth. Bake at 375 for 18-20 mins. Makes two 8 inch layers.
One idea I had was to make a Black Forest cake by dumping a can of cherry pie filling on top and adding whipped cream to serve.
Another was to either make or buy some marshmallow cream and fixing your own Suzi Q's.
Except for the whipped cream, both ideas would be low fat. Hope this helps a little. Enjoy!!
Thanks for the great replies everyone!
I do now know from making a few cake-in-mug that for one mug cake you need 1/3 cup cake mix, 2 teaspoons veg oil & 1 egg white.
To make it interesting - cut up a couple of milky way mini's into about 8 slices into the center & microwave for 1 min to 1&1/2 mins.
Be carefull though!
The first one I did got nuked too long & the caramel in the candy boiled over!
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Easy, quick, and only 2 ingredients. Mix 3/4 can of the pumpkin with one box of cake mix of your choice. Spoon in cupcake tins 3/4 full. That's it!