254 yellow cake recipes

Super simple poppy seed bundt cake starts with a doctored cake mix, with vanilla pudding for a moist, dense crumb and a generous handful of poppy seeds. Just mix everything in one bowl and bake.

Easy peanut butter cake from a doctored cake mix, made extra moist with vanilla pudding and studded with peanuts, then frosted with chocolate-peanut butter frosting. The Reese's-lover's layer cake, no fuss required.

This buttery and moist old fashioned rum cake will for sure be a hit on your dinner table. It's hard to go wrong with rum and pecan.

Pumpkin nut cake (a.k.a. pumpkin dump cake) layered with spiced pumpkin custard, dry yellow cake mix, chopped nuts and melted butter on top. Bakes into a gooey-bottom, crisp-top fall classic.

Better Than Sex Cake is a rich Bundt cake made with yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding, sour cream, chocolate chips, grated German chocolate, and pecans.

Microwave pineapple upside-down cake made with yellow cake mix, pineapple tidbits, brown sugar, and maraschino cherries. Ready in 30 minutes with no oven needed.

Easy sherry cake made with yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding, and real sherry wine baked in a bundt pan. Moist, boozy, and warmly spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg.

Lemon poppy seed bundt cake that starts with yellow cake mix and gets a fresh lemon juice kick, crunchy poppy seeds, and a tangy glaze drizzle. A shortcut bakery cake that tastes from scratch.

Pumpkin pie cake is a fall dump-cake with creamy spiced pumpkin pie filling on the bottom, dry yellow cake mix on top, then melted butter and pecans. A no-crust pumpkin dessert hybrid.

A Southern-style gooey butter cake with a yellow cake mix crust and a rich cream cheese, egg, and powdered sugar filling. Cut into bars for the ultimate sweet treat.

Rich and creamy squares with a buttery yellow cake mix base topped with sweetened cream cheese and pecans. An easy two-layer bar cookie that feeds a crowd.

Tropical coffee cake doctors a yellow cake mix with mandarin oranges and their juice, then crowns it with a coconut, nut, and cinnamon streusel. The whole thing bakes in the microwave in about 10 minutes for a fast brunch treat.

My version of easy cinnamon rolls that used a box of cake mix.

Quick cherry-almond drop cookies made with cake mix.

Paradise cake layers a yellow box cake with crushed pineapple, sliced bananas, vanilla pudding, chopped pecans, and whipped topping. A tropical no-fuss layered dessert that feeds a crowd from a 9x13 pan.

Lemon rum Bundt cake made with yellow cake mix, lemon pudding, and a boozy butter-lemon glaze soaked right into the warm cake. Pecans line the bottom for a nutty crust.