416 mix recipes

Very easy pumpkin cake doctors a spice cake mix with canned pumpkin puree and eggs into a moist, fall-spiced sheet cake. Three ingredients, no oil or water needed.

Tri-color pasta salad with juicy tomatoes, black olives and zesty Italian dressing, dressed in stages so the noodles soak up flavor as they chill. An easy vegetarian make-ahead side for picnics and potlucks.

Very simple fat-free ad-hoc cabbage in a tomato sauce.

Five cup bread mixes one cup each of self-rising flour, dried fruit, granola, water, and sugar into a no-fuss loaf. Five ingredients, one bowl, dump-and-bake breakfast bread.

Fruity puff oven pancakes are dramatic Dutch baby style pancakes that puff sky-high in the oven, then collapse into a cradle for fresh fruit and powdered sugar. Brunch theater.

Soft and chewy Bisquick Oatmeal Raisin Cookies made with rolled oats, raisins, and a hint of vanilla. Easy recipe, ready in under 30 minutes.

Moist British-style banana bread loaded with mixed dried fruit, soft ripe bananas, butter, and sunflower oil. A food-processor quickbread that uses a full pound of bananas.

Savory spaghetti and meatballs with ground beef meatballs seasoned by dry onion soup mix, browned and simmered in jarred spaghetti sauce. The 30-minute weeknight version that tastes like a slow-cooked Sunday sauce.

Quick chocolate banana bundt cake doctors a devil's food cake mix with mashed banana, sour cream and pudding for a dense, ultra-moist crumb. Studded with walnuts and drizzled with chocolate icing.

Instead of making the same old pies for Thanksgiving, try this scrumptious and decadent dessert your family will love.

Crisp bacon, pan-seared scallops on a bed of tatsoi. Quick, easy and tasty!

Chocolate cream cheese sandwich cookies start with devil's food cake mix for soft, chewy chocolate rounds, then sandwich a tangy cream cheese frosting between them. An easy cookie you can tint for the holidays.

Crockpot taco steak and rice, a one-pot Tex-Mex dinner. Beef simmers in seasoned tomatoes all day, then corn, peppers, and instant rice cook right in the pot. Top with cheese and go.

Hillbilly chili made the back-porch way: ground beef, pinto beans, crushed tomatoes, and a splash of jalapeño pickling liquid for kick. A no-fuss Appalachian-style chili finished with vinegar.

Chocolate cherry cake from a doctored devils food box mix with cherry pie filling and almond extract. Topped with a poured chocolate icing for a moist sheet cake that beats homemade.

This recipe comes from Italy by way of Argentina. Maxwell Mowry of Charleston got this recipe when he lived in Buenos Aires in the early l970s. Since there are more people of Italian ancestry in Argentina than of Spanish ancestry, it is not surprising to find panettone there, where it is called in Spanish pan dulce, meaning 'sweet bread.' At Christmas in Argentina, pan dulce is eaten accompanied by sparkling apple cider. Houseware shops in Argentina sell special tall cylindrical springform pans to bake the pan dulce, but an empty, greased 1-pound coffee can may be used.