208 yellow cake mix recipes

Easy amaretto cake built on a doctored yellow cake mix with vanilla pudding, toasted almonds, and a buttery amaretto-soaked glaze. The bundt that fooled every dinner party into thinking you spent all day.

Apple coconut kuchen with a yellow-cake-and-coconut crust, sliced apples layered with cinnamon sugar, and a sour cream custard drizzle on top. German-style coffee cake done semi-homemade.

A layered pineapple coconut poke-style cake starting with a box mix, topped with coconut milk cream cheese pudding, crushed pineapple, whipped topping, and shredded coconut. Potluck-ready and crowd-sized.

Hawaiian dump cake with cherry pie filling, crushed pineapple, yellow cake mix, coconut, and macadamia nuts. No mixing required, just layer and bake.

Easy sherry cake made with yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding, and real sherry wine baked in a bundt pan. Moist, boozy, and warmly spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg.

Punch bowl cake layered with yellow cake, cherry pie filling, chocolate and vanilla pudding, pineapple, bananas, whipped topping, and nuts. A retro layered trifle for a crowd.

Pumpkin nut cake (a.k.a. pumpkin dump cake) layered with spiced pumpkin custard, dry yellow cake mix, chopped nuts and melted butter on top. Bakes into a gooey-bottom, crisp-top fall classic.

Maple nut bundt cake with swirled layers of cinnamon-sugar nuts baked into a pudding-enriched batter, then drizzled with maple-vanilla glaze. Starts with a cake mix but tastes from scratch.

German chocolate cake using yellow cake mix doctored with melted German sweet chocolate, pudding mix, and buttermilk. Three layers stacked with classic cooked coconut-pecan filling between. The bakery-quality version of a backyard birthday classic.

Famous Bundt rum cake made with yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding, and dark rum in both the batter and a buttery rum glaze. A boozy, moist party cake with chopped pecans.

Bacardi rum cake made with yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding, pecans, and dark rum, then soaked in a buttery rum syrup. A boozy, sticky bundt cake that's a holiday classic.

Apple raisin drop cookies from a cake mix with sour cream, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Soft, cakey cookies loaded with shredded apple, dusted with powdered sugar.

Pig cake is the Southern potluck classic: a moist mandarin-orange cake topped with a fluffy pineapple, vanilla pudding, and whipped topping frosting. Light, fruity, and made with a cake-mix shortcut. Keeps cool in the fridge.

Chocolate chip cookies made from yellow cake mix with just 5 extra ingredients. Soft, cakey cookies with walnuts that come together in minutes and bake in 12.

Honey Bun Cake starts with a yellow cake mix enriched with sour cream, layered with a brown sugar, cinnamon, and pecan swirl, then glazed while warm. A potluck favorite that tastes scratch-made.

Four-layer coconut cake with coconut cream pudding filling, chopped macadamia nuts, whipped cream frosting, and shredded coconut pressed all over. A showstopper from a cake mix.