Easy Cake Mix Recipes; Butterscotch Cake Recipe or Caramel Cake Recipe

Easy cake mix recipes can be used to make many fast desserts; great cake recipes, crusts for cheesecakes and other desserts, easy cookies or moist bars like the gooey bars. You will be amazed at what difference it will make in a box mix just by adding a few other ingredients.

If you are baking with chocolate or craving chocolate, easy chocolate recipes can be made from these mixes. I cannot think of anything that chocolate does not go well with. If you have a banana cake mix on your shelf, try adding semi sweet chocolate chips in the batter before baking; it is delicious.

Cake mixes are the oldest of convenient foods in our markets. I remember as a child (We didn’t have a television until I was in third grade.) seeing “Betty Crocker” advertise cake mixes. They have certainly made great advances since then! Today the mixes are heavier and moister; more like homemade. You might think they should be light but back then they were too light with no texture.

For basic cakes I am still not as fond of easy cake mix recipes as I am of homemade cake recipes. You just cannot beat a good homemade cake recipe. I do think these cake mixes can be a base for some of the best cake recipes, cookie recipes, bar recipes and other desserts simply by adding some of your favorite ingredients.

GOOEY BARS

• 1 Box devil’s food cake mix


• ½ Cup melted butter


• 3 Eggs


• 1 Box powdered sugar (16 ounces)


• 1 Package soft cream cheese (8 ounces)


• Powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine cake mix, melted butter and 1 egg; press into 9x13 inch baking pan.

Mix sugar, cream cheese and two eggs; beat for 5 minutes with mixer.

Pour cheese mixture over the cake mixture.

Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until set.

Remove from oven and sprinkle with a little powdered sugar.

Let set until cold before cutting.

CHOCOLATE COCONUT DESSERT CAKE

Many of the cake mix recipes can be baked like a cake but with different ingredients added the cake becomes more of a dessert. Like the recipe below, the cake becomes moist by soaking with delicious coconut flavored milk and topped with Cool Whip.

• 1 Box chocolate cake mix


• 1 ½ Cups milk


• ½ Cup sugar


• 2 Cups coconut


• 1 Tub Cool Whip (8 ounces)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease and flour a 9x13 inch baking pan.

Prepare cake as directed on package, using the prepared pan; cool for 15 minutes.

Poke holes down through cake with a utility fork (meat fork)

Combine milk, sugar and ½ cup coconut in a saucepan.

Bring mixture to a boil and simmer for 2 minutes.

Spoon mixture over cake letting it soak down in the holes.

Let set until cold.

Fold ½ cup coconut into Cool Whip and spread over cold cake.

Sprinkle with remaining coconut and refrigerate for several hours.

CHOCOLATE COOKIE RECIPE

Cake mix recipes often include cookies. Quick cookies can be made by adding chocolate chips as in this recipe or you might want to add nuts or coconut.

• 1 Box devil’s food cake mix with pudding


• ½ Cup water


• 2 Eggs


• 1 Cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375F degrees.

Combine cake mix, eggs and water and blend.

Drop by tablespoon onto a lightly greased cookie sheet.

Sprinkle tops with chocolate chips.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until almost no imprint remains when cookie is lightly touched.

TURTLE CAKE RECIPE

This is one of the easy cake mix recipes which turns a plain German chocolate box mix into a delicious and very popular turtle cake recipe.

• 1 Box German chocolate cake mix


• 1 Cup butter, melted


• 1 Can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk


• 1 Bag (14 ounces) caramels


• 1 Cup chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 350F degrees.

Mix cake as directed on package; divide mixture in half.

Combine ½ of mixture with ½ of melted butter and ½ can of condensed milk.

Mix well and pour into a greased and floured 9 X 13 inch baking pan; bake 25 minutes.

Unwrap caramels; combine remaining ½ cup butter with caramels over low heat until caramels are melted.

When caramels are melted add remaining half of milk and pecans; stir until blended.

As soon as cake comes out of oven top with caramel mixture; bake 25 minutes.

Let set to cool before serving.

BUTTERSCOTCH CAKE RECIPE

This is one of the easy cake mix recipes which combines two of my favorite flavors; butterscotch with chocolate. It is truly one of the easy cake mix recipes with only 5 ingredients.

• 1 Box cook and serve butterscotch pudding mix


• 2 Cups whole milk


• 1 Box yellow cake mix


• 6 Ounces semi sweet chocolate chips


• 12 Ounces butterscotch chips

Preheat oven to 350F degrees; grease and flour 9 X 13 inch baking pan.

Combine pudding mix and milk and bring to a boil over medium heat while stirring.

Remove from heat and blend in cake mix.

Quickly stir in chocolate chips only to distribute and pour into prepared pan.

Quickly cover top with butterscotch chips and bake in oven for 30 minutes or until done.

Cool before cutting.

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