Everyday Food for Busy People
This cake doesn’t look like anything special. But if you like lemon, you will love it.
It’s one of my very favorite desserts. My mom has made it for years and I can’t believe I haven’t shared the recipe with you yet.
It starts with a lemon cake mix. Add a package of lemon pudding mix. And after it’s baked, drench it with lemonade.
The result is moist, sticky, lemon-packed scrumptiousness!
Here’s what you’ll need: [Read more...]
A sponsored post on behalf of Pillsbury.
If you’ve read this blog for any amount of time, you know I love cake mix cookies. The possibilities are endless.
Recently, Pillsbury asked me to try their new Orangescicle and Key Lime flavors. Each comes in a cookie mix and cake mix, so you can choose.
Spring is here and the weather is starting to warm up. I think these citrus flavors are a great way to celebrate spring and sunshine. My kids loved the cookies. My son said to me, “You know what these taste like? Those orange popsicle treats.” Win! They do taste just like orange creamsicles. Yum!
Celebrate Spring with your family!
I added vanilla baking chips to my Orangesicle cookies. About 3/4 cup is plenty for one box of cookie mix. Just follow the directions on the back of the cookie mix box, then stir in the white chips.
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Summer Seasonal Celebration Starter Reader Giveaway Kit:
To enter, leave a comment telling me how you’re planning to celebrate Spring with your family. Giveaway closes on Monday morning 5/13 at 9am. Winner will be notified by email.
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Aren’t those cute?
I love the bright colors and sprinkles.
I’ve shared before that I am not good at decorating cakes or cupcakes. I just don’t make pretty food. So it made me really happy that I was able to make these cupcakes.
I used a star tip. Starting in the center, I just squirted (is the proper word piped?) around in a circle until the top of the cupcake was covered. Simple!
And using two contrasting colors of frosting made for a more festive presentation. I even sprinkled the cupcakes with sprinkles from both types of frosting.
You can get 12 regular sized cupcakes and 24 mini cupcakes from 1 box of Funfetti cake mix. It’s fun to have two different sizes for people with a big or small sweet tooth.
We don’t have any birthdays coming up, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a reason to celebrate. We shared these cupcakes to celebrate Jim coming home from a three week business trip. We were all so glad to have him home!
Pillsbury Funfetti has a lot to celebrate now with the Pillsbury Funfetti 25th Birthday Promotion, which runs through April 25. You can find out more on the Pillsbury Baking Facebook Page. You can also follow Pillsbury Baking on Pinterest.
We can do a little celebrating here too! I’ve got one Celebration Starter Kit to giveaway. This includes Funfetti Premium Cake and Cupcake Mix, Colored Frostings and a $50 Visa gift card.
To enter, just leave a comment telling me what your family’s next celebration will be.
Giveaway closes April 25 at 9am Eastern.
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post from Pillsbury. I’ve been compensated for my time and I received product samples. All opinions are my own.
I was headed to a family get together last week and needed to bring dessert. I couldn’t decide what to make so I looked around in a pantry and what I found created this deliciousness! This is one of the easiest desserts I’ve ever made and so good. I hope you enjoy as well. And its very customizable. You could use any type of cake mix. I think it would be good with spice cake. And you could use other fruits. Peaches would be so good too. If this gets your creative juices flowing and you make an alteration to this recipe please comment and let us know!
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Rachael Walkup has been married to her best friend for 7 years. They have two kids – a 3 yr old boy and a 1 yr old little girl. She loves to write, cook, spend time with family, and serve others. You can learn more about her by following along on twitter, her blog, or pinterest.
Looking for an easy Christmas treat? If you like peppermint and chocolate together, you will love these.
The pink frosting and crushed candy canes makes the bars look pretty too. I love that, because I’m not the best at making pretty food.
These start with a cake mix and get topped with Duncan Hines Frosting Creations peppermint flavor. The cake part is the same as in my Tuxedo Bar recipe. Which is just Double Chocolate Bundt Cake baked in a sheet cake pan.
It’s one of my favorite recipes, because it’s so amazingly chocolate and it’s versatile too.
Here’s what you’ll need to make Double Chocolate Cake Bars with Peppermint Frosting: [Read more...]
The baking season is gearing up! Are you ready?
I love baking (and eating too), so I was really excited to get to try out Duncan Hines new Frosting Creations. They’ve got quite a few flavors, including 4 new seasonal frosting tastes. Our favorite so far, is the Gingerbread Frosting. We ate most of the container with animal cookies. Such an easy and tasty snack for fall.
Today, I’ve got a recipe to share with you that uses Apple Pie Frosting. And I’ve got a fun giveaway from Duncan Hines and Wilton. Keep reading to find out how to enter!
These Oatmeal Cookies start with a cake mix (you know I love cake mix), so they are really easy to make. I spread part of them with the Apple Pie Frosting and part with Gingerbread Frosting. Both were a hit with friends who were over for dinner on Friday night.
I’m really anxious to try the Peppermint Frosting with Devil’s Food cake. There’s also a Pumpkin Spice flavor that would be good paired with chocolate.
Here’s what you’ll need to make Apple Pie Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies: [Read more...]
Cake mix cookies are nothing new (as a matter of fact, there are several fabulous recipes right here at Eat at Home, like Pina Colada Cake Mix Cookies…holla!), but I decided to re-visit the recipe the other day. I haven’t made them in quite some time because (1) it usually calls for 2 eggs (which my egg allergic son can not have) and (2) most recipes call for at least a 1/2 cup OIL or BUTTER. Now, don’t get me wrong, I do love me some buttah, especially in cookies, but I try to limit it as much as possible.
So, the other day I am having a huge chocolate craving (this is nothing unusual). Since I have recently moved, I have not restocked on a lot of baking items….but I did have cake mix. I didn’t want to make a cake or cupcakes, but I knew I could make cookies with it. After scoping out a few recipes, I decided I could make these a little bit better for you, by making a couple of healthier substitutions. Not sayin’ these are a health food or anything…but when you want something sweet and you want it NOW, these fill the bill without filling out your jeans quite as much 
These cookies are soft & chewy, not crispy, and surprisingly, were better the next day. (They didn’t last past Day 2, so I can’t speak to how long they will keep!)
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See the other 31 Days of Cooking Short Cuts for Cheaters posts here.
Kim of Mo’Betta – I have been married for 13 years and have 3 children, ages 11, 9, and 4. I started blogging as a way to journal my adventures in the kitchen as I learned to move away from the microwave and boxed meals to cooking ‘from scratch’. Most of my recipes are tailored to meet the needs of my food allergic son (nuts & eggs), diabetic husband, or my waistline!
I’ve been looking forward to this Ingredient Spotlight for a long time. Cake mix is one of my favorite ingredients. It can be so much more than what it appears.
Not that we should ever frown on a simple 9×13 cake made according to the back of the box, but there are all kinds of things you can do with a cake mix.
Here are a few of my favorites: [Read more...]
We’re going to get cakey this week. Today, I have a tip for cutting more slices out of a layer cake.
Tomorrow, we’ve got Ingredient Spotlight: Cake Mix (I can’t wait for this one!)
And Thursday, I’ve got a recipe for cake mix cookies that’s lightened up a bit to make them less of a splurge, but still a delicious treat.
Have you ever had a large group of people over and only had one layer cake to serve?
If you’ve got enough warning, you could make cupcakes instead. Or bake two cakes.
But I prefer this tip instead.
My dad was raised in a family with 10 kids, so they always needed a way to make food stretch. In order to get plenty of slices, they used this method of cake cutting.
And if anyone in that family is reading this post, you’re wondering why I didn’t make banana cake and if that is coffee icing on the cake in the photos. My grandma’s homemade banana cake is a pain in the patootie to make, so I tend to make this sheet cake with coffee icing instead.
The cake and frosting in these photos is from The Cake Mix Doctor (Mom’s Yellow Cake with Fluffy Chocolate Frosting – it’s one of my favorites). [Read more...]
This is one of those recipes that you’ve probably seen before. It goes by different names – Holy Cow Cake, Butterfinger Cake etc. Most of the recipes I’ve seen use sweetened condensed milk.
I like to bump up the yum, by using a jar of hot fudge and a jar of caramel topping.
I made this for my 14 year old son’s birthday a few weeks ago. He likes to ask for labor-intensive cakes, but had somehow weasled two birthday cakes out of me this year. So, instead of making the Cannoli Cake he asked for, I made this.
He was happy, because how can you not be happy with chocolate cake infused with caramel and hot fudge? And I was happy because it’s super simple to make.
Here’s what you’ll need: [Read more...]
