Category: Cakes

Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

From the October 2009 Real Simple (original online), these tasty cupcakes start with a cake mix, but folks will never know they’re not made from scratch! Ingredients 1 18.5-ounce box yellow cake mix (plus the ingredients called for in the…

Scary Spiders

A recipe from the October 2009 issue of All You (original online). This no-cook party snack will “transform packaged snack cakes into creepy crawlers.” Ingredients Chocolate-covered cream-filled snack cakes (such as Ring Dings) Mini chocolate cream-filled snack cakes (such as…

Blueberry Crumb Cake

A recipe from the April 2010 issue of All You (original online). The article explains, “This lightened-up version of a classic crumb cake can save you almost 200 calories per serving (compared to Starbucks classic coffee cake).” Ingredients Topping: 1/2…

Orange Crush Cake

I’ve read about soda cakes before, but I never tried the recipe until this week. The incredibly simple recipe turned out quite well, and left the family brainstorming combinations to try in the future (see the Variations below). Secretly, this…