Meet your new favorite easy dessert.

Enter this yellow cake mix recipe to save the day.

A bit offresh ginger, raisins, and shredded carrots turn the cake mix into a dreamy bar.

Chocolate Dump Cake

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Dulce de Leche Cake

Upgrade your boxed cake mix witha can of dulce.

Test Kitchen Tip:This cake mix recipe tastes even better when chilled overnight.

Just wait to frost until serving time.

Carrot Cake Bars

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Hummingbird Dump Cake

Dump cakesare some of our favorite recipes using cake mix when time is short.

First, we’re flavoring the cake with mandarin orange syrup.

Fresh Strawberry Sheet Cake

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A homemade strawberry puree is the start of thiseasy dessert.

Dulce de Leche Cake

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The cake is also dressed up with strawberry gelatin mix.

A fluffy strawberry cream cheese frosting adds the perfect bit of sweetness.

As one reviewer raved, “The strawberry frosting for this recipe might have been my favorite ever!

Butterscotch Marble Cake

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It was so luscious and sweet.

I would definitely make this cake again.”

Blueberry Dump Cake

You’re three ingredients away from making thisdump cake recipe.

Hummingbird Dump Cake

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Simply layer in a can of blueberry pie filling, a box of cake mix, and butter.

As it bakes, the cake mix and butter creates a cobbler-like topping.

Some of our favorite combinations are chocolate cake with cola and white cake with lemon-lime soda.

million dollar cake on a wood and marble stand

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Top with whipped cream or your favorite frosting.

Here, we’re making a shortcut version with cherry pie filling and devil’s food cake mix.

it’s possible for you to have cake in the oven with just 10 minutes of prep.

Strawberry sheet cake

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Our recipe tester’s favorite part was the topping, which is made with crushed cookies and freeze-dried strawberries.

Amp up the chocolate flavor with a package of pudding mix.

Top the cake with chocolate chips just before baking.

blueberry dump cake

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Strawberry Dump Cake

Rachel Marek.

Adding salty pretzels on top helps balance the sweetness and adds texture to each bite.

Layer the cake with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.

two-ingredient soda cake with frosting

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This white cake mix recipe is one of our favorite summer desserts.

Sprinkled the finished cookies with powdered sugar and enjoy!

black forest dump cake

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Strawberry crunch cake

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Chocolate dump cake

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strawberry dump cake

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Tres Leches Cake

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Gooey Butter Cookies

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