This is this week-ends results at my house

Peanut Butter Banana Cake

I added a heaping serving spoon(maybe 1/3 cup) of crunchy peanut butter to Banana Cake mix and substituted 1/4 cup of Cream of Coconut for that much liquid. Rest of recipe as on the box. The best was the frosting !

I combined the rest of the can of cream of cocounut with peanut butter and mixed until it was well combined; then I beat in enough 10X sugar to make the frosting the right consistency. This is my new favorite frosting !

1 box Cake Mix
1 pkg pudding
1/2 c water (warm)
1/2 c oil
4 large eggs
1 c Sour Cream

Can't-Leave-Alone Bars
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Great for pot luck parties!

Makes 48

1 box white cake mix
2 large eggs
1/3 cup oil
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 stick butter, cut small

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1. Heat oven to 350. Grease a 13 x 9 x 2 inch baking pan.

2. Beat cake mix, eggs and oil in a large bowl with mixer until
blended. Press 2/3 in pan.

3. Microwave condensed milk, chocolate and butter in a bowl on high
for 1 minute. Stir until smooth. Pour mixture over crust. Top with
teaspoonfuls of reserved cake mixture.

4. Bake 20 to 25 minutes until lightly browned. Cool; cut into bars.

Woman's Day
July 2004

Adding sourcream or yogurt will tend to make the cake a bit denser more like a pound cake. My husband prefers his cakes this way in a bundt pan.

I always add fresh carrots to carrot cake mix.

Pumpkin Spice Muffins

1 box spice cake
1 15-oz can pumpkin
1/4 C. water
Cream Cheese Frosting

Mix cake mix, pumpkin and water together. No eggs or oil are needed, as the pumpkin adds the necessary moisture. Line muffin pan with cupcake liners. Bake according to directions on the cake mix box for cupcakes. Remove and let cool.

Frost with cream cheese frosting; Serve.

"MY DOCTORED YELLOW CAKE MIX CAKE"

Ingredients.

1 box Duncan Hines yellow cake mix. (or any brand 2 layer yellow cake mix. DO NOT USE CAKE MIX THAT HAS PUDDING IN IT.

1 can fruit cocktail packed in fruit juice (15-16oz)

Put cake mix into mixing bowl, add eggs only. DO NOT ADD WATER OR OIL. Add can of fruit cocktail with liquid. Beat with electric mixer, following the directions on cake mix package. If the fruit cocktail pieces are still large, beat a little longer to make them smaller.

Pour into a bundt pan, sprayed with cooking spray and bake according to package directions till cake is done.

Cool and remove from pan.
No frosting needed. Very moist.

NOT SURE IF THIS ONE FALLS UNDER THE CATEGORY, BUT IT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE DIRECTIONS ON THE CAKE MIX PACKAGE.

Ingredients.

any 2 layer cake mix of your choice.
About 24 icecream cake cones (the ones with the flat bottoms.
Frosting and decorations of your choice.

Mix cake mix as directed.

Fill cones with amount of batter that you would use to make cupcakes. Place inside a 9x13 inch baking pan to keep them up right.

Bake according to package directions for cupcakes.

Cake cones come out looking like they have a scoop of ice cream in them. Cool. When completely cooled frost and decorate as desired.

The kids love them, much easier to eat and teachers in schools appreciate these far more than messy cakes or cupcakes.

My daughter made 96 of these for her super bowl party and they where the hit of the party. No one had ever seen them before. She laughed as she told them the story of how her Mom first made them.

I was supposed to make cupcakes for a party at my daughter's elementary school. Thought I had everything I needed to make them and found I didn't have any muffin tins to make them in and all the stores where closed. In desperation I called my mother and she reminded me of what "grandma used to make, when we where little." I had plenty of the cones so that's what I made.
Have never made a cupcake since. All the kids ever wanted was the cake cones for school.

Starr

Place rhubarb on the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan. Sprinkle with jello powder and sugar. Sprinkle dry cake mix on top of that. Pour hot water over the top, and put a couple of pats of butter on top of that. Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes. Sounds like it wouldn't work, but it is really good. I get asked for the recipe all the time. Would think you could substitute rhubarb for starwberries, cherries, or other fruit that is in season.

My husband's favorite recipe. He makes this one a lot. It came from the box of Pillsbury cake mix.

Peanut Butter Bars
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1 yellow cake mix
1 cup peanut butter
1/3 cup water
1 egg
1 can chocolate frosting
1/2 cup peanut butter

Mix yellow cake mix, 1 cup peanut butter, egg, and water. Pour into a 12x9 pan. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. When cooled mix chocolate frosting and peanut butter together and frost bars. You can top with chopped peanuts or M&M's if you want.

Follow directions on the box of butter yellow cake mix with pudding in the mix. Add 1 1/4c. rootbeer instead of water, 1/2 c. butter softened ( in place of oil)and 3 eggs. Optional:2 tsp. rootbeer extract. Frost with your favorite icing.

CRUMB CAKE BY SUE
(from Sue/Cookingrvc)

1. Make Crumb mixture
2. Make Cake mix
3. Bake cake half way
4. Top with crumbs
5. Bake rest of the way
6. Sprinkle with powdered sugar

CRUMBS
1 lb butter or margarine
2 Tsps. Vanilla
4 Cups Flour
2 Tsps. Cinnamon
1 Cup White Sugar

In a large pot on the stove, melt the butter and add the vanilla and then mix in the remainder of the ingredients. Spread out with a large spoon and/or a spatula on a cookie sheet to dry out a little. Then make the cake.

1 Box of yellow cake mix.
Make according to recipe on the box.

Put the cake in a pan 11.5 inches by 17 inches.

Bake the cake half way through the baking time (according to the package directions - this will be about 15-20 minutes). Take the crumb mixture and, using a spatula, lift it off the cookie sheet in chunks and, using your hands, crumble it up into big crumbs and put the crumbs on the cake (this will be a little messy) and continue baking until the end of the baking time. Remove the cake from the oven and cool on a rack.

Wait until the cake is completely cooled and dust generously with powdered sugar. Lots of powdered sugar!

IMPROVED ANGEL FOOD CAKE

To Betty Crocker Angel Food Cake Mix (none other); add one raw egg white, & substitute orange juice for the water.

Apple Spice Cake:

1. To one package Duncan Hines Spice Cake mix, add 3 eggs and 1 can of Comstock Apple Pie Filling. If you use an electric mixer, the few small remaining apple chunks will disappear during the baking.
2. Scrape into a greased & floured 9" x 13" x 2" pan; if you pile the batter a bit higher toward the pan edges, the finished cake will be a more uniform thickness.
3. Sprinkle with 1/4 C sugar mixed with 1/2 t cinnamon.
4. In a greased & floured 9" x 13" x 2" baking pan, bake on center rack of a 350 F oven until it tests done -- it will appear done, & it will pull away from sides of pan.
5. Cool in the pan; serve w/ (optional) whipped topping.

Chewey Butter Cake

Mix 1 box Duncan Hines Cake mix with 1 Stick soft Butter and 1 egg. Press into a 9x13.2" dish. Sprinkle with 1 cup chopped nuts. (I use Pecans.) Set Aside
Mix 8 oz. softened Cream Cheese, 1 Box Confectioners sugar, 2 eggs and 2 teaspoons vanilla until smooth. Pour over cake and bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees until done will be very brown and firm in the middle.
Cuts and serves like brownies.

1 Box yellow or white cake mix. I use Betty Crocker
1 sm. box any flavor jello (not instant)

Mix cake according to directions on box adding 2 Tbsp of the jello. Cook and cool according to package directions.

Add the remainder of the box of jello to a seven minute frosting recipe and frost cake. Delicious and kids love it.

1 Betty Crocker Butter Pecan Cake Mix
3 eggs
3/4 cup oil
1 cup water
1/4 cup pancake syrup
1 tub of Coconut Pecan Frosting (German Chocolate Cake Frosting)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Add all the ingredients into a large bowl (yes, add the frosting mix) beat until well blended. Pour into prepared Bundt Pan. I spray my pan with Pam Cooking Spray, I then dust the pan with granulated sugar. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes. Be sure to test for doneness with a toothpick.

This is one cake you will be making often. Also, it is usually cut and sampled before it ever fully cools. I can't keep my husband out of it.

Now as for variations I have added peanut butter and chocolate (a personal favorite) to a white cake, sour cream to a chocolate cake, strawberries to a white cake (omit water) and I am currently making pumpkin bars from a spice cake mix (which led me to your site because I was looking for a way to turn a white cake into a spice cake so I can double it). Use four eggs instead of three, add a can of pumpkin and a quarter of a cup of applesauce (or oil if you prefer), omit water. Bake as directed on the box.

THE CAKE

1 box yellow cake mix

1 stick butter (soften)

4 eggs

1 box confectioners� sugar

1 8oz. cream cheese (soften)

1 Tbsp. water

1 tsp. vanilla

Mix together cake mix, butter, water and 1 egg, pour mixture into a lightly greased

13 x 9 x 2 inch baking pan. Batter will be very thick and you will have to pat the mixture evenly with your hands. Blend remaining 3 eggs, on at a time, with the soften cream cheese. Add sugar and vanilla and mix well. Pour this mixture over the bottom layer. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for approximately 45 minutes. Let the cake cool before cutting.

I've found that just substituting whole milk for the water makes so much difference. It's more dense and more like a homemade cake. My picky husband noticed immediately!