Box-cakes/6 recipes

Quite nice, very soft creamy and delicate texture inside the cakes. The sweet and slightly spicy parsnip and sweet corn work well together. We served them with some homemade sweet chili sauce.

An easy way to use up your potatoes and to make something delicious.

Quick, easy and delicious. This is the kind of dish that makes everybody around the dinner table happily fed and possibly ask for more.

Fresh and local peaches finally hit the market, we got some last week, and this is the first cake that I made with those yummy peaches. I used most whole wheat flour, 1/3 butter, 1/3 olive oil and 1/3 applesauce, which made this coffee cake super moist and delicious.

A moist, lightly spiced snack cake. I have made this using butter or shortening, and both work fine. The butter method is a bit richer in flavor, though.

Scrumptious chicken main dish with a green chile kick that is tamed by creamy cool sour cream.

Recipe clipped from an old newspaper. Quick and easy and yummy! :)

Chocolate cherry pecan cake, using a box cake mix. "Dump" in the ingredients, bake and enjoy.

If you think zucchini is just not your thing, this moist and chocolaty zucchini rum cake will knock your socks off and you even won't notice that there is zucchini in it. Such a deliciously sweet way to use up some of your seasonal zucchinis.

Sugary, crunchy topping. Delicious, delicate, and slightly spicy cake. Perfect to enjoy while sipping coffee!

Wonderfully sweet...

Sheila made this Mandarin Cake this morning to take to our Paella lunch with Spanish friends. They go crazy for it.

A simple, but delicious dessert that's made with fresh rhubarb, a cake mix and strawberry gelatin.

These mini cupcakes are super! The chocolate bottom and cream cheese-chocolate filling on top are a delicious combination. They are so easy to be addicted.

Tofu was golden and crispy after being cooked in the skillet, the mushroom sauce was made with Marsala wine, tomato paste and mushrooms, and it was absolutely flavorful.

This Apple-rhubarb recipe with strawberry gelatin is super easy, just dump and bake. Reminiscent of a strawberry-rhubarb pie without the fuss of a crust, more like a rhubarb crisp.