Taste of Home: Cake Mix Creations: 216 Easy Desserts that Start with a Mix

by Janet Briggs (Editor)

Save time, money, and your sanity with the 216 easy-to-make recipes that taste as good as baked goods made from scratch-just ask the folks who submitted the recipes and the home economists at Taste of Home magazine. Each recipe includes a full-color photo so your dessert selection will be easy-as-pie as you see just how impressive a no-fuss dessert can be. In addition to effortless cakes, there are incredible cookies, easy scones, simple biscotti, and yummy coffee cakes- each starting with a store-bought mix, but end up with a professional bakery look with a homemade taste.

Try this sweet-tooth-pleasing baking book and amaze your family with:
A Cookies-and-Cream Cake made with everyone's favorite Oreo cookies
A fruity Apricot Layer Cake that will surprise everyone when they learn that it starts with a white cake mix
Butterscotch Pecan Cookies that will be ready in just 30 minutes
Sweet Jack-o'-Lanterns cupcakes for Halloween
Plus, Lighter than air Angle Food Cakes, classic Bundt Cakes, old-fashioned Rhubarb Custard Cake, Raspberry Lemon Torte, trifles, cobblers, and ice specialties, and more.

Whipping up a luscious dessert will be snap for anyone with little or no baking skills when you start with a boxed cake mix. This creative cookbook will add a wealth of ideas for even the most experienced baker, and will turn your kitchen into a first class bakery.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

240 pages, Paperback

Published March 5, 2009

Reviews

[Sherri]

All these recipes start with a cake mix box, however if you want to make and use your own favorite that's acceptable for most. Divided into celebration, cupcakes, etc. All are doable for the home cook. Great photos.

[Carol]

Really, why do I have to be stuck with a slow metabolism? This cake-book is so full of wonderful, decadent, delights! I found a luxuriously rich (but easy to make) mocha cheesecake in here I made for my husband's birthday - he requested it again for next year's birthday treat after only 3 bites! This is definitely a good one!

[Andrea]

I could never cook from a cool book that doesn't have any pictures. I need visualize to see what I'm baking/cooking. And this book is amazing. It's got many yummy recipes each with a perfect colored picture. It's wonderful.

[Crystal]

Good, clear instructions, and lots of photos.

Update: I made the Glazed Lemon Cake. It was so easy, and smelled so good as it was baking.

This might be a cookbook that I have to buy.