51 easy cake recipes

My version of easy cinnamon rolls that used a box of cake mix.

Dutch oven raspberry cobbler with yellow cake mix and 7UP: a four-ingredient campfire dessert with bubbling raspberry filling and golden cake topping. Easy and crowd-pleasing.

Substitute the cake for the cobbler with this quick and easy to follow recipe.

Grilled pound cake topped with a warm balsamic-strawberry glaze made from brown sugar, maple syrup, and fresh berries. Served with vanilla ice cream for an easy summer dessert.

This easy strawberry poke cake gets its fizzy twist from strawberry soda and jello soaked into tender cake, topped with a creamy vanilla pudding whipped frosting. A crowd-pleasing potluck favorite!

Frozen angel food cake layered with frozen yogurt and frosted in whipped topping, then garnished with fresh fruit. A light, easy ice-cream-style cake you can customize to any yogurt flavor.

A hilariously gross Halloween cake decorated to look like a head with frosting 'hair,' cherry eyes, and a fruit roll-up tongue. Kids go absolutely wild for this one. Easy box cake base.

Canned salmon and grated potato pancakes fried crispy golden, served with applesauce or horseradish sour cream. An easy, budget-friendly dinner the whole family loves. Think latkes meet salmon cakes.

Crab and corn cakes pulse half the corn with garlic, mustard, and egg as a binder, then mix with whole corn kernels, lump crab, and scallions for pan-fried savory cakes. A summer-easy seafood appetizer.

Apples and cottage cheese baked in a round cake pie make an easy to make delicious low fat apple and cheese Danish.

This host of ghosts cake is easy to make, and the result is super outstanding, want to impress your guests? Try this out!

A simple three-ingredient vanilla sugar glaze, just sugar, milk, and vanilla whisked smooth and poured over pound cake. Quick to make and easy to drizzle over berries for a finishing sweet sheen.

Halloween pumpkin patch cake built from two devil's food bundts stacked face-to-face, frosted orange, with a green cupcake stem and candy corn jack-o-lantern face. Easy showstopper for kids' parties.

A fast, easy chocolate frosting made from cocoa powder, sugar, and a splash of boiling water beaten with margarine until creamy. A quick, dairy-free way to frost any cake with real chocolate flavor.

Applesauce-raisin doughnuts made quick with a baking mix: spiced cake doughnut dough with applesauce and raisins, fried golden and tossed in cinnamon sugar. Warm, moist and easy fall doughnuts.

Italian sausage stuffed bell peppers with mozzarella cheese and oregano in marinara sauce. Easy baked peppers ready in under an hour, perfect for weeknight dinners.