296 vanilla cake mix cake recipes

A self-saucing chocolate pudding cake that bakes up with fudgy cake on top and warm chocolate pudding underneath. Made with Bisquick, cocoa, chocolate chips, and chocolate topping for triple chocolate bliss.

Delicious, light and fluffy! These taste of Fall, and the crystallized ginger gives then a lovely little zing. Even people who don't like pumpkin love these cupcakes. These disappear as fast as I can set them out!

Rich West Indian Christmas cake soaked in rum and sherry with dried fruits, warm spices, and browning for deep color. Start the fruit a month ahead for a dense, boozy holiday cake worth the wait.

Loaded oatmeal cookies with whole wheat flour, coconut, pecans, chocolate chips, and butterscotch chips. Vanilla pudding mix is the secret to extra-soft cookies.

Wartime impossible pie from South London with one batter that splits into crust, custard, and filling as it bakes. Use it sweet with coconut and vanilla, or savoury with canned tuna or salmon and frozen vegetables. Pantry magic.

Chocolate fruitcake with cocoa, candied cherries, pecans, golden raisins, and mixed dried fruit, topped with a semisweet chocolate-almond glaze and toasted almonds.

Spicy bran muffins loaded with Thai chilies, jalapeño, and habanero rings, plus dried fruit, walnuts, and warm spices. Bold breakfast baking for heat seekers.

Classic German Lebkuchen: spiced honey bars with almonds and candied citrus peel, glazed with lemon icing and dotted with cherries. Centuries-old Nuremberg Christmas tradition.

Citrus poppy seed cake with orange and lemon zest topped with vanilla cream cheese icing. Made from a homemade cake mix that stores for months.

Peach schnapps bundt cake spiked with peach schnapps and orange juice, baked in a vanilla cake mix base and brushed warm with a peach preserves and schnapps glaze.

Hornet's Nest Cake mixes yellow cake mix with vanilla pudding, butterscotch chips, and chopped nuts for a dense, rich sheet cake that comes together in minutes.

Sherry wine Bundt cake made with yellow cake mix, French vanilla pudding mix, nutmeg, and chopped walnuts. Rich, moist, and warmly boozy with minimal effort.

Apple crunch coffee cake built on biscuit mix: layered batter, sliced apples and cinnamon streusel, finished with a vanilla glaze drizzle. From box to oven in 10 minutes flat.

A flexible basic vanilla cake template using cake flour, sugar, baking powder, eggs, and your choice of mix-ins. The starting point for chocolate chip, fruit, or layer cakes.

Braided cinnamon coffee cake made from hot roll mix, filled with cinnamon sugar and butter, then topped with a vanilla glaze. A showstopper brunch bread with a shortcut dough.

Alice's white cake is a tender vanilla and almond-scented layer cake leavened with whipped egg whites for an airy, snowy crumb. The kind of from-scratch white cake that makes box mixes look amateur.