The recipe on the back of a box of Cake Mix is lackluster. You don’t have to follow box cake mix recipes exactly, you know… you can take a box of cake mix and make it into several different desserts or just a more fun cake. Keep reading to find 5 ways to make cake mix better AND a super simple, easy to follow recipe. Plus, I have a list of several other boxed cake mix recipes that are sure to impress your guests!
1. More Fat in Your Box Cake Mix:
If you want a better box cake mix you need to substitute butter for the oil and double the amount your recipe calls for. If you are on a diet, use applesauce instead of the extra oil or butter. It won’t be as flavorful, but it will help it stay moist.
2. Make it Eggcellent:
Add an extra egg or two to make your cake mix recipe extra rich and fluffy – like in the Best Cupcake Recipe EVER from Crystal and Company!
3. Water Strike:
Water is drying out your cake and cupcakes! Use milk (chocolate milk?) or soda instead like this Mountain Dew Cupcake Recipe or these Coca-Cola Cupcakes. What flavor of soda pop cake will you make?
4. Be Adventurous:
Throw stuff in there! Here are a few ideas. Try adding one or more to your box cake mix!
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Extra vanilla, strawberry, or almond flavoring.
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2 tablespoons of peanut butter or nutella.
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Your favorite candy bars – like this Reese’s Cupcake Recipe
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Chopped fresh fruit!
I like to make Poke Cake and fill the holes with Jello or pudding.
Poke Cake with Icing
5. Make Cake Mix Cookies:
You can make any cake mix into cookies! Think of the possibilities; double chocolate chip, chocolate peppermint, rocky road. Can you tell I like chocolate? Just follow this simple recipe:
- 15.25oz box cake mix
- ¼ cup oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon milk
- ½ cup mix-ins like chocolate chips (optional)
- frosting (optional)
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Stir cake mix, eggs, oil and milk until combined. Stir in mix-ins.
- Make 1inch balls with spoons or a cookie scoop and place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet or parchment. Flatten slightly.
- Bake for 6-8 minutes or until golden around the edges.
- Cool for 1 minute before removing. Frost immediately if you are using frosting or making sandwich cookies.
Try one or more of these alterations to your cake mix recipe and never eat a nasty, dry, flavorless boxed cake again!
Kelli’s Boxed Cake Mix Recipes:
5 fun recipes for boxed cake
Cinnamon Banana Bread Cake Mix Recipe
Blueberry Cobbler from Yellow Cake Mix
Zucchini Bread Easy Cake Mix Recipe
Gluten Free Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
More Ways to Use Box Cake Mix:
- Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book: More Than 375 Delectable Cookie Recipes That Begin with a Box of Cake Mix
- Cake Mix Cookies: More Than 175 Delectable Cookie Recipes That Begin With a Box of Cake Mix
- The Cake Mix Doctor – create 150 desserts using a box of cake mix!
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I am assuming the butter needs to be soft, or should it be melted?
Love these great tips…I always add Vanilla to EVERYthing almost but never thought to use any of the others you speak of.
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Great Ideas! Thank you so much for sharing your awesome recipe with Full Plate Thursday and have a great weekend.
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Miz Helen
All good ideas – my daughter swears by putting more oil in brownie mix, too…hey, it isn’t diet food! I made a cake for Easter that was pineapple flavored and added a small can of crushed pineapple to it to amp up the flavor. it was moist and wonderful! Pinning this post – thanks!
Amen, Gina! If we wanted diet food, we wouldn’t be eating cake. 🙂
Great tips!
Great ideas. One more. . . When making pineapple upside down cake, use the pineapple juice in the cake instead of water. So much more flavorful!!!
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You ought to try Vanilla Butter Nut flavoring by McCormick instead of just plain vanilla.
Great tips for making our cakes better, I will have to try some of these. Hope you have a great weekend and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen
Great cake tips! I can really use them! Thanks for sharing!
If you add milk to the cake mix does that mean you need to refrigerate it after it is baked?
Just wanted to let you know that the pictures aren’t showing up for me. 🙂 Trying to repin this again.
I see all but the top one – I have let the lady that combined my sites know. 🙂 Thanks bunches for telling me!
I use olive oil instead of the regular cooking oil or butter. It makes the most moist and delicious cakes I have ever tried!
When I make cupcakes I use a boxed white cake mix, the ingredients called for on the back of the box, except I only use 2 egg whites and add 2 more whole eggs. I also add a small box of instant fat free sugar free vanilla pudding powder mix, 1 teaspoon of clear vanilla flavoring, 1 teaspoon of coconut flavoring and the beans of 1 whole vanilla bean. I bake on 325. Everyone asks for these cupcakes and they can never figure out the flavoring combo. Over the years, I’ve just tweaked and tweaked the recipe till now and it’s perfect. I have used butter for oil and milk for water but to me, they are alittle too dense so I just stick with my tweaked recipe.
This sounds super delicious – I love to try adding new things and taking out old things from a boxed mix 🙂
I had no idea that boxed cake mix could be so versatile. Thank you for the great tips and recipes. I will be trying some of these this weekend. My kids will be excited.
Although I usually do cook from scratch, I sometimes can’t resist the convenience of cake mixes. I do many of the things you suggest, using the mix as a starting point for my own creation. Great tips. Break out of the box! 😀
These are great tips. I’m going to bake cupcakes but will try for the first time to make buttercream frosting.
Great ideas!! My husband is the cake man – I’ll share these with him! Thanks for sharing on the What’s for Dinner link up – Would love to have you give us a comment at the party!
I love these tips. I also like the confetti cookies. They may go in my holiday treat bags this year. Thanks for sharing on Sunday’s Best.
Hey Kelli! These are excellent tips. Cake mix cookies seem like they are delicious! Definitely going to change up the way I bake now. Thank you so much for joining the party at Dishing It & Digging It this week!
Great tips! Thank you for sharing:)
They look yummy! Thanks for sharing at Fiesta Friday!
Great tips for a better cake! Hope you have a fantastic weekend and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday!
Miz Helen
Thanks for the great tips. I’ll have to give some of them a try. Thanks for sharing at Funtastic Friday.
I want to try making cake with soda! That sounds like a lot of fun. I bet with sugared soda though 🙂
Thanks for sharing at Bloggers Spotlight!
I had absolutely no idea about #3! Scheduled this to share on Facebook because I bet I’m not the only one who didn’t know.
I think it would be great to be able to make cookies out of our favorite cake mix! Thanks so much for sharing your baking tips with us at the #HomeMattersParty this week.
These are all amazing recipes! I some cake mixes in the pantry that I’m going to doctor up now!
You had me at cake mix cookies! I love these ideas of taking something ordinary and making it AMAZING! Love!
Oh my gosh! I was so excited to have stumbled up on this post that’s packed with awesome tips to make cake mix better and wonderful recipes. What fabulous ideas! I followed your simple recipe to make cake mix into cookies and it was just like you described – quick, easy and so delicious! I added in some colorful sprinkles just like those in your image. Mmmmm….