136 mix pan cake recipes

The easiest cake you'll ever make: dump apple pie filling, pineapple, yellow cake mix, coconut, and pecans into a pan, top with butter pats, and bake. No mixing, no fuss.

Chocolate mousse tiara cake: a tender chocolate cake baked in a tiara pan, its center crowned with an easy milk chocolate mousse. A bakery-worthy showpiece that starts from a simple cake mix.

Apple snack cake mix shortcut: stir cake mix, egg, and milk right in the baking pan, press sugared apple slices into the top, and bake. A single-pan dessert ready in 40 minutes.

Party cake upgrades a boxed cake mix with extra eggs, sugar, and oil for a bakery-style cake that bakes in bundt, sheet, or layer pans. Popular doctored cake mix hack.

Sour cream coffee cake baked in a bundt pan with a cinnamon-pecan streusel bottom and brown sugar-cinnamon topping layered through the center. Brunch perfection from a cake mix.

No-fuss chocolate cake mixed right in the baking pan with a fork. Chocolate cake mix, instant pudding, and chocolate chips create an ultra-moist, triple-chocolate cake with zero bowls to wash.

Dump cake with pie filling, crushed pineapple, yellow cake mix, and melted butter topped with coconut and nuts. A no-mix dessert where you literally dump everything into the pan and bake.

Three-layer pumpkin bars built on a yellow cake mix base with spiced pumpkin custard center and a buttery cake-mix streusel top. Makes 24 bars in a 9x13 pan.

A dump-and-bake strawberry cake with marshmallows, cake mix, Jello powder, and frozen strawberries layered in a pan with zero mixing. The oven does all the work. Sticky, gooey, and ridiculously easy.

Friendship cake using yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding, brandied starter fruit, raisins, and pecans baked in a Bundt pan. The shortcut version of the gifted-starter holiday cake.

A Depression-era chocolate cake made with no eggs, no butter, and no milk. Mixed right in the pan with the famous three-holes method, topped with rich fudge frosting.

Lemon Jello cake made with yellow cake mix, lemon gelatin, eggs, and oil baked in a tube pan. A moist, tangy cake with bright citrus flavor throughout.

Macadamia fudge torte with devil's food cake mix, pureed pears, chocolate chip filling, and warm butterscotch sauce. A layered springform pan dessert.

Crazy cake (depression cake) is an egg-free, dairy-free chocolate cake mixed directly in the baking pan with cocoa, oil, vinegar, and water. Vegan-friendly and ridiculously easy.

Fruit cocktail cake is a one-bowl dump cake mixed straight in the pan with canned fruit cocktail, flour, sugar, and eggs. Old-fashioned potluck dessert with zero fuss.

Carrot snack cake made with cake mix, grated carrots, orange juice, cinnamon, and chopped nuts, topped with a homemade cream cheese frosting. Easy one-pan baking.