Honeybun Cake and a Giveaway!!
If you’ve read this blog (or my About Me page), for any length of time, you probably know that I am a firm believer in cake mixes.
I mean, really…anything that gets freshly baked cake into my face and the faces of the people I love quickly and efficiently cannot be a bad thing.
Cake mixes also lend themselves to tons of adaptations. The cupcake, cookie, bar, and whoopie pie possibilities are endless.
So obviously, I am a huge fan of The Cake Mix Doctor. I have ALL of her cookbooks (she has several), and they are ALL great!! The things she does with cake mixes are just magical, and I have used her recipes countless times over the years.
I was recently contacted about trying her new cake mixes, and I was so excited to try them out!! They contain real ingredients — no artificial colors, flavorings, preservatives, or transfat, and can be prepared in one bowl in less than five minutes.
You get a from scratch taste without the effort, which sounded to me like the best idea ever.
I decided to try using the yellow cake mix to make Honeybun Cake.
I’ve been making this cake for years and years — it’s so ridiculously easy, and one of my husband’s favorites!! I love to make it in the evening so we can have a piece warm for dessert, then have some for breakfast the next day too.
The cake turned out perfectly with The Cake Mix Doctor Mix — it’s my favorite version yet!!
Here’s the recipe — but keep reading below to see how to enter to win some Cake Mix Doctor Mixes of your own!!
This cake is so easy and perfect for any occasion. We love it!!Honeybun Cake
INGREDIENTS
- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 4 large eggs
- 8oz container sour cream
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 TBS cinnamon
- Glaze:
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 4 Tablespoons milk
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 325. Spray a 9×13 pan with nonstick spray and set aside.
2. In a small bowl, combine brown sugar and cinnamon. Set aside.
3. In the bowl of a mixer, combine cake mix, oil, eggs, and sour cream. Beat on low speed for a few seconds, then on medium just until batter is fully combined and all large lumps are gone.
4. Pour half of batter into prepared pan. Spread evenly (batter will be thick). Sprinkle all of the brown sugar/cinnamon mixture evenly across the surface. Cover with remaining cake batter, spreading evenly (spreading can be a bit difficult because the batter is thick — if some of the topping shows through or ends up mixed in with the top layer, it’s totally fine). Using a small knife, swirl through the batter and cinnamon mixture, making the pattern of a large honeybun. Bake cake for about 40 minutes, until center is set.
5. Immediately make your glaze by whisking together the powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla in a medium bowl. Once it’s smooth, pour over warm cake and spread evenly.
If you want to try this cake with a Cake Mix Doctor Mix (which I highly recommend), you can look here to see how to purchase them AND you can enter to win some here!!
Anne has offered to ship 4 boxes of cake mix (2 chocolate and 2 yellow) to one lucky winner!!
To enter, just leave a comment telling me what YOU would use the cake mixes for!!
I’ll be taking entries until Sunday 9/2 at 11:59 pm. Winner will be contacted Monday via email.
I’m also sharing a yummy cupcake recipe later this week using the chocolate Cake Mix Doctor Mix — I think you’ll love them!!
Good luck and thanks for entering.
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Oh I love the Cake Mix Doctor! My mom has her cookbook and I’ve made quite a few recipes with it. I’d use the cake mix to make one of the gooey butter cakes. :)
I would risk salmonella & just eat the batter lol!
When it comes to baking cakes I need all the help I can get! I would probably try this cake first, then a dump cake of some sort. BUT this honeybun cake has to be made and soon!
My 13 year old LOVESthe Cake Doctor Chocolate Covered Cherry Cake. But now I think I’l have to make a Honey Bun Cake! :D
I use cake mix for everything! It always turns out yummy. So with this cake mix, I would use it for me. All of it. Because I am worth it.
shoveling it into my face as fast as possible?
whoopie pies!
cake balls galore! nomnomnom
I work in a newsroom full of journalists. And what do journalists love more than great interviews? Free food! I would totally use these yummy mixes to whip up a few variations to share :) This honeybun cake looks FANTASTIC!
I LOVE doctoring up cake mixes. I would love to try it for our next family birthday.
mmm a chocolate mousse trifle, for sure!
Would make your delicious honey bun cake!
I’d use it to make cupcakes for my toddler who has a sweet tooth.
I what that mix! I would make cupcakes!
I would use the cake mixes for CAKE POPS!!
Bars, and cookies, and a pie, and maybe this honeybun cake! :)
I’d love to try the Honeybun Cake. I used to read Ann Byrn all the time when she was with the Atlanta newspaper, and I have a couple of her cook books!
For sure, a Honey Bun Cake, then an Ooey Gooey Cake, then some Chocolate Cupcakes…yum!
I would use it to make cake for Bible study! I am the coordinator for our med school’s Bible study and since I love to bake, that gives me an awesome excuse to try new things out on my friends. This honeybun cake is going on the list for sure! :)
I would make some cupcakes with them!!
Oooooo! I have three of her books! I have not tried her mixes. Her little embellishments can make a simple cake in to a grand one. Nice giveaway. Thanks!
Oh my goodness, I would make this recipe!!! It looks amazing and perfect for back to school. Thanks for sharing!!
I would love to use it making this honey bun cake !! I love to bake so anything that makes it easier gets a thumbs up from me .
My 87 year old Grandma is addicted to HONEY BUNS!!! I would make her this cake with the Cake Doctor mixes-heck, I’ll probably make her one just cuz I know she’ll love it!!!
I’d love to try it on this recipe! Also, gooey butter cake. :)
Love Cake Doctor books! I have one of them that is dog eared. I would love to try the honey bun recipe with her cake mixes.
I’d make cake batter pancakes and waffles…my girls love them!
I LOVE The Cake Mix Doctor! I also have several of her books..and they are WONDERFUL!
What would I make with the mixes…I think maybe cupcakes…..or the Honeybun Cake..it sounds and looks YUMMY!
I’d love to try some of your yummy recipes using her cake mixes. This looks yum!!
I would try your Honeybun cake and make dump Cake and cupcakes.
I would make cupcakes!
Honestly,this honeybun cake might be just the perfect thing to try these mixes out on!
I would make cake pops!
I’d probably make her chocolate cake with sour cream recipe. It’s probably even better with her mix!
I would have to try my hand at making some whoopie pies!
I love fancied-up cake mix cupcakes, so I’d go for those first!
I’d make the classic yellow cake with chocolate frosting– can’t go wrong there.
Whoopie pies! My new favorite.
I really want to try the ‘can of pie filling + cake mix + slow cooker = deliciousness’. I also love making cakes from mixes and melted ice cream…so simple, so good.
I’d make coconut cream cake! My favorite!
I would make Melted Ice Cream Cake.
http://cookiesandcups.com/melted-ice-cream-cake/
I use the cake mix doctor all the time! Love it! I would definitely use my mixes for the upcoming birthday cake season in our house – four birthdays in four months! Yikes.
I, too, am a huge fan of the Cake Mix Doctor! (I have all her books…including Dinner Doctor, which is also a great cookbook.) I have some birthdays coming up in my family, so the mixes would be used quickly.
I would use the cake mixes for cupcakes. Those are easy to keep a few and give a few away!
I’d make cupcakes and fill them with yummy stiff like ganache or pudding :-)
I’m with you, I love mixes. I would make some bar cookies and then a cake with lots of different chips and nots in a bundt pan. My friends love it when I make that cake. Usually just empty the pantry of all choc chucks, chips and nuts, its never the same twice. But always good.
i would definitely make the cake doctor’s darn good chocolate cake…cause it’s darn good! :)
cupcakes! I’m really into the eating clean thing. So cake like this totally counts!
I’d love to make tres leches cake with them!
I would make some cup cakes for my husbands work! Then try your Hunny buns for myself!
I would make bubblegum cupcakes for my birthday!
I love the cake dr. I have her cupcake book so would use the mixes to make one of those yummy treats!
My favorite ‘Cake Mix Doctor’ recipe I’ve found so far is the Chocolate-Covered Cherry cake. I would have to make one of these with my first box of her cake mixes. :)
Fresh Strawberry Daiquiri Cake!!
I cook in a secure residential treatment facility for mentally ill and I ofter use my cake doctor cookbook to make their desserts, they love cake and I can make many different ones from a simple mix.
I have never tried the cake doctor before because they don’t sell it in stores in Nebraska. However, if I got it I found a great recipe to make cookies out of cake mix batter and I really want to try it! also the honeybun cake looks delicious so I would love to try it with cake doctor!
I would close my eyes and open each of her cookbooks that I have and make whatever the books open up to!
coffee cakes. I love ‘em, and I often take baked goods to work, using a mix when baking during the week makes life so much easier!
Hm, I’ve never used The Cake Mix Doctor before so I’ll have to check them out. I’d love to make some sort of chocolate coconut cake!
Wait a minute…Anne Byrn has created cake mixes??? I would bake up Darn Good Chocolate cupcakes! Neither my husband nor I are chocolate cake fans, but DGCC? We LOVE IT!!
Cake mix is a staple on Boy Scouts campouts. It gets used often in Lodge dutch ovens for cobblers, upside down cakes, etc. Pretty versatile!!!
My daughter’s 4th birthday is right around the corner… bet these would make a great pirate (yes, pirate) cake!
I’m a recent convert to cake mixes. I used to be a purist but now I see that they definitely have their place. I would make her peanut butter chocolate bars. They look so easy and soooo good :)
Definitely for me I would stick.with.the classic yellow cake with chocolate fudge frosting. Simple yet sooo delicious
We usually make cupcakes but I will try one of your recipes, they look good. Maybe a coffee cake or gooey butter cake!
Your Honeybun Cake looks so yummy.
I love to bake so sure would love to try out these mixes. I think I probably would make my husbands favorite; Black Forest cake seeing how his birthday will be coming up soon.
Thank you for another yet great looking dessert recipe and also for this giveaway opportunity
ColleenB.
I would use them to make my daughters first bday cake!
I would make a delicious orange cake that has holes punched in the top while it is still warm and then you pour an ornage glaze over it that soaks in! This cake mix would be perfect for this recipe!
Let’s see, with the yellow cake, something for my son as he does not like chocolate (I know, still not sure where he came from). With the chocolate, something for the rest of us, as we all LOVE anything chocolate.
I would use them to make your yummy recipes :)
I would use the cake mixes to make a birthday cake for my moms 80th birthday in October!
I would make cupcakes for my daughters class at school!
I love biscotti and have several recipes that use cake mix as the base, so I would definitely use the chocolate to make chocolate pecan or chocolate almond biscotti to with my coffee or hot chocolate as the weather cools off! Thanks! Can’t wait to find these near me!
I’m thinking I need to try one of those yellow cake mixes with coconut milk as a dulce de leche variation. Mmmm.
Love her books. Maybe cupcakes or cake pops? I dont know!!
My first cake would be the honeybuncake. It sounds awesome. The maybe something citrus!
I would use the cake mixes to make a cake and take it in to my coworkers.
I love cake mixes and I think I’m going to have to buy one of her cook books and try our something with each kind of cake mix. Off to amazon to check it ou…
A St. Louis and family fav Gooey Butter Cake with the yellow and Gooey Butter Chocolate Cookies my fav cookies at Christmas!! Thanks!!
I would make my banana chocolate chip cake….it’s soooo yummy….uses a yellow cake mix!! Just made one yesterday!! :)
i would make pumpkin muffins
1i will try that Honeybun cake and send it off with my son to college for good snacking!
I love recipes using cake mix! I’d make this recipe and I also have one for a basic chocolate cake doctored up with chocolate chips and chocolate pudding. Yum!
I don’t normally use cake mixes, but when the cake gets more complicated, it’s sometimes a relief to have a mix! I’d probably use it for an ice cream cake!
I love finding new box mixes! I would definitely make some cupcakes!
I would make cupcakes!
I would definitely make this Honeybun cake if I won!! Honeybuns were my favorite treat as a kid, and this cake looks absolutely divine! :-)
I would use it to make this honey bun cake. Looks delicious for breakfast! Pinning now!
I would use 2 of them to make cupcakes for my daughter’s upcoming birthday party. But prior to that I would have to mix up at least one for myself, just to make absolutely sure it was delicious. :-)
Oh man, I think I’d use a combination of the two to make swirled crinkle cookies. Can you imagine?!
I would use them to make cookies. I love the texture of cookies made from a cake mix…PLUS….they are so easy!
I would use one of Cake Doctors recipes to make cupcakes or even cakes to give to someone to encourage, or cheer them up.
I would love to try some of her recipes!
I would try the Honeybun Cake first. It looks awesome!
My sister and I are students so we don’t have a lot of time to bake :( The cake mix would make baking a lot more convenient and we would be able to bake more often. Yay!
The Honeybun Cake looks like a good one to try!! I hadn’t heard of the cookbooks before, I can’t wait to check them out. The chocolate covered cherry cake recipe mentioned above sounds right up my alley too!
I love the Cake Mix Doctor! I love the Honeybun Cake too, and always think of my dad when Honeybuns are mentioned.
Id make gooey butter cake & cake pops.
I would set the boxes out on the counter next to the mixer as a hint to my children to make me some cake. A mom filled with cake is a happy mom.
Um yeah. This cake is going to be in my very, very near future. I know Little Buddy will think I’m the best Mama evah!!! :)
Love cake mixes! I made choc choc chip cupcakes last week– just added choc chips to the batter to make them “home made” :)
I’d use these to bake my daughter’s 16th birthday cake!! 16!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m going to need ALL the HELP I can get!!
Hello..I would use the mixes for making cakes for my sons and his roommates at College! Also for my daughters Cheer squad..They would all appreciate them :) thank you
Yes, I want a piece. Yes, it is breakfast time and I am ok with eating cake for breakfast:)
ok where have I been? I haven’t heard of the cake doctors mixes. I am evidently totally missing out on something great. Love your idea on making this to have for dinner desert and breakfast. yum
I would make any cake in her books. I love them they are my go to cookbooks for desserts. I didn’t know they made cake mixes would love to know where to buy them…..
My daughter’s birthday is coming up – I’d make her birthday cake!! Something lemony.
Awesome! I would make cupcakes because my daughter loves to help me make them! Chocolate ones of course!
I am totally making Honeybun Cake…duh! ;)
I’d love to try it on this recipe an gooey butter cake
I LOVE the honey bun cake!! It’s one of my favorites. I’m going to have to try this version. You can also use cake mixes with melted butter on top of peaches or other fruits for a quick fruit cobbler.
I’m thinking of starting a blog about improving my baking skills, trying new techniques, and making easy desserts my kids can help with. I’ve been collecting recipes, and your chocolate cake mix cookies with the mini peanut butter cups are on my list! I’d definitely use the cake mix to try those cookies!
cake pops i think
I think I would try the Honey Bun cake!
The school year has just started so I have a lot of fellow teachers who would very much appreciate the treat of some delicious cake during our work week. Chocolate chips will be added to a few of them of course.
I would use the yellow to make the Honeybun cake and the chocolate for cookie dough cupcakes!
I would use them for your cake of course and then some gooey bars perhaps. : )
I would probably make cupcakes, but the real answer is “whatever my daughter wants me to make.” We have to skip most cake mixes, because she can’t have the artificial colors in them. So my ears really perked up when you said that these mixes don’t contain artificial colors. This could make life a little bit easier. Woo!
My dad’s birthday is coming up and I’d use them to make a wonderful 2-layer cake!
I love a good cake mix, they are hugely successful in the store for a reason – they work and are good!
I would try this cake, and then make cupcakes if I won. Some over the top frosting on top of a chocolate cupcake – yum!
Ive never tried this cake mix and would love to make the honeybun cake sounds so good. I hope I win.
Apparently, having been lost in my own little ‘crochet, card making, scrapping world, I have NEVER heard of The Cake Mix Doctor. How sad is this?!?!?! Thinking Amazon.com will be my next stop on the web. As for how I would use the cake mixes….ANYTHING sounds wonderful right now!
I would make cupcakes and/or honey bun cake, looks delicious!!
I would use the chocolate to make mini chocolate banana mini loaves. Yum!
I would maker her snickerdoodle cake, which I adore and Natalie’s Chocolate Cafe au Lait cake. (if you have not made the cafe au lait cake – you must try it. I get so many compliments on it that it’s almost ridiculous).
Oh I love the Cake Mix Doctor!
I would have to try some cupcakes and then look through her book and find something new to try with the new mix :)
I too make this Honey Bun Cake!
I’d love to make a chocolate fudge cake or snickerdoodle cake for my daughter. It could be a welcome to 7th grade cake.
I’d make a chocolate cheesecake bundt!
Cake mixes are amazing. There are so many different things you can do with them. One of my favorite ways to use cake mixes are to use them as a base when I make streusel toppings. Also, I use small amounts in dips, frosting, and milkshakes to give that cake batter flavor. Works wonderfully!
I think I’d make the honeybun cake. I’ve only had it once and my sister forgot the glaze. I need to try the real deal!
I would love to make my soon some cupcakes, for his first week of kindergarten.
I’m dying to try her chocolate mint ice cream cake!
Pumkin Crunch Cake!
I would use the cake mixes to try more of her recipes with my kids – I have one of her cookbooks and love making cakes! Amazed how good a box cake mix turns with a few extra touches or modifications!!
I’d probably make cupcakes.
I’m getting ready to start sending ouy care package to my college student daughter and friends and am just too excited about the possibilities. The honey bun cake looks like a keeper for sure. :)
I own her book so I would use them to make one of her cake mix doctor recipes like the Hawaiian wedding cake and lemon cake :)
I would use them to make some cake mix cookies. My kids love those!
I love the Cake Mix Doctor! I had several of her cookbooks but my mother-in-law “borrowed” them and now I don’t have any Cake Mix Doctor cookbooks.
My family was all born in October, November , and December. If I were the lucky girl who won this, those cake mixes would become the beginnings of their birthday cakes!
Thank you for the opportunity!
I like to use cake mixes to make cookies, but I’ve been wanting to try whoopie pies!
I have 3 of Anne’s books and LOVE them! I would make my favorite cake out of the Cupcake book, which is Cappuccino Cupcakes with Mocha Buttercream. They are to DIE for. I have been wanting to try her cake mixes, so I hope I win :-)
I would just make a cake. My baking skills aren’t too adventerous
I would try the honeybun cake! I pinned one a few weeks ago and haven’t tried it yet but yours looks better so I’m glad I waited!
Triple chocolate fudge cake… mmmmm.
I would like to make the Honeybun Cake again, I made it once years ago and my family loved it!
I would love to try the honey bun cake with the mix. Thanks for the giveaway.
I would probably just use them to make a regular cake. I might make cupcakes b/c I love yellow cake with chocolate icing!!!
I would use one for her Snickerdoodle cake recipe, which is one of my favorite desserts
ooh…..I have the chocolate book but not the yellow cake book! I would love to try the honeybun cake…it sounds awesome!
I absolutely LOVE this cake. I mean, what could be better than something this easy and tasty? The only problem is that i eat most of it on my own. Also, i was not aware of the Cake Mix Doctor and after reading this ordered two of her cookbooks from Amazon. Thanks for the tip! I too, live by your cake mix creed0. Just made some awesome cheesecake bars with cake mix and butter as the crust! So, what would I make if I wont these? Shelly’s Strawberries and Cream bars. I have had those on my radar for a few weeks now.
I would use the cake mix when I need a cake right away and didn’t feel like measuring everything out. Yum!
I would make a cupcake with filling. People call me the dessert queen and always ask me to bring cupcakes to parties. If they only knew my “fancy cupcakes” are jazzed up cake mixes!
I would love to try this honeybun cake for starters :)
I would try your honey bun cake recipe. It looks scrumptious!
Cake mix cookies! Yum!! I’d love to win these since they aren’t available for sale in stores in Utah yet!
I would make a Pig Pickin cake with the yellow cake mix. Yumm and then some chocolate cupcakes with a chocolate no-crusting buttercream frosting. Double yumm! Never thought about making a honeybun cake. Just always thought of prepackaged buns! Great idea!
I use cake mix a lot. My favorite is a banana sour cream cake with cream cheese frosting. I use yellow cake. This cake is absolutely wonderful. I also make a lemon cake mix cake with lemon pie filling mix in it with blueberries. That is pretty good too.
I have never heard of this cake mix. Your cake looks wonderful and I am going to make it when my daughter visits this weekend.
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I would make puffy Lemon Cookies with the yellow cake mix!
and chocolate Crinkle Cookies with the chocolate mix.
I would make one of your cupcake recipes!
Cherry cheesecake bars sound really yummy right now…
i would make her “darn good chocolate” cake. It is fantastic!
Definitely some cupcakes!
I would make Poppyseed Bread!!
I would totally have to try your honeybun cake. Dessert and breakfast, too! Can’t beat that!! And who doesn’t love a good ‘ol honeybun?
I would use the cake mixes to make a cake for my dad’s birthday–it’s coming up in a few weeks. :)
I will use them to make this awesome cookie recipe that allows for any add-ons you can think of…coconut, raisins, gumdrops, chocolate chips…the more variations, the better. The only limit is your imagination.
Chocolate covered cherry cake and Snickerdoodle cake from Cake Mix Dr. are two of our favorites!
I’d use it to make Pokemon cakes for my boys! Always a big hit at our house.
Omg! I love her books! I would definitely try this Honeybun cake for one & then get out her choc. Book to pick another!!
Cake Pops!
I would bake cupcakes for my daughters bday.
Cookies! Cake! Cupcakes — I’d try it all :)
I love using cake mixes for an individual 1 minute microwave cake. Your honey bun cake looks scrumptious!
I’ve been wanting to try a Boston cream pie type trifle.
I love the Cake Mix Doctor books! My mom gave me one and I almost always make cakes from it now. And I haven’t made the honey bun cake yet, but if I win I will have to!
By the way, have y9u checked out her Dinner Doctor books yet? Aweosme!
I would love to use the yellow mix to make this honeybun cake! Chocolate is my favorite, so I would definitely make a chocolate cake with chocolate icing for a weekend treat! Thank you for the giveaway!
I have a couple of her cookbooks also, and too many pages flagged to try to decide! I’d probably just flip the book open to one of them and jump right in- the honeybun cake might be a nice place to start. Dessert AND breakfast in one dish- yes please!
Anything that tastes like Fall!
I’d make cupcakes, so I can have an excuse to whip up all of these frosting recipes I’m anxious to try!
I also love the Cake Doctor’s cookbooks. I would use the mixes to make some yummy desserts for my family.
Definitely Cupcakes! I’ve been practicing with my decorating tips to make pretty cupcakes.
cake pops!!!
They don’t sell her mixes where I live in Washington – so I would LOVE to try them just as they are – see how good they turn out! :D
I would keep the yellow cake mix and make chess squares and give my mom the chocolate cake mix to make her special ‘chocolate bomb cake’!
Yellow Cake = Honey Bun Cake (there really isn’t anything better :0)
Chocolate Cake = Chocolate and Peanut Butter Gooey Cake
YUM-O!!!
I love baking and love new recipes. I think I’d test my mad baking skills on our tailgating crew to celebrate our upcoming football season. :)
Oh I have three of her books! I would make the Snickerdoodle and Honeybun cake because I love to bake in the fall.
I would use the chocolate to make the Kahlua cake from Anne’s book and just make the yellow plain with some homemade buttercream frosting (and sprinkles!).
I would try the Honeybun cake for sure! And also something with either peaches or apples!
I’m going to make the Honeybun cake for my out-of-town guests this weekend. Looks like a winner!
I just made my first layer cake last week and it turned out really well, so I’d probably make another. And then I’d make some cake mix cookies because they are just so darn easy and yummy!
I love her cookbooks too and have been using them since college! I would use the mixes to make one of my favorites, her melted ice cream cake recipe. it is so good with Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia.
I’d make whoopie pies, light & dark bars, and this honeybun cake!!!
I would use the cake mixes to make new recipes from the Cake Doctor’s books….I have hardly made a dent in The Cake Doctor Returns book even though it’s been on my shelf for a while!
I would definitely try that Honey Bun cake! Looks so good!
I probably would give it a try with my cookie dough cupcake recipe ♥
I would either try a new one from one of her cook books (I have several of them too!), an oldie but a goodie – her fresh strawberry cake, or this honey bun cake. I bet my husband would love it too!!!
Looks so delicious! The wonderfulness of cake mixes should not be ignored :) I would use these to experiment with some new cake flavors.
I would make your honeybun cake, or a gooey butter cake…. yum
I would make this honeybun cake or a dump cake.
With fall around the corner, I’d use the yellow cake mix for Pumpkin Dump Cake – one of my favorite finds last fall!
that honeybun cake looks pretty darn good! I’d probably make that :)
Well, I would make this, for one.
I generally don’t keep cake mixes around, partly because I like knowing exactly what is in my cakes, and partly because I also enjoy the getting fresh cake to my mouth faster idea – a little too much. So having to do things like soften butter and sift flour are GOOD for me.
HOWEVER, I do have some recipes that require cake mixes, and some (like this one) that I would like to try.
I use cake mixes to doctor up my favorite chocolate cupcakes. This cake looks wonderful, Kristan!!
I would probably use one of each for mini cupcakes, cuse they are so fun and you can eat 5 with out feeling guilty. The other two I would use to make marble cake mix cookies. I have an empty cookie jar that is very hungry! :)
I would make this honeybun cake if I won! I hope I do because this recipe looks delish!
I would probably make cupcakes for work!
The honeybun cake sounds delicious, but I’ve been craving ooey gooey butter cookies.
Oh that honeybun cake sounds delicious!! I am doing a cookie and sweets table for my September 29th wedding and would use the cake mixes to whip up some treats for the table!
I would probably make this pumpkin praline dessert that is so yummy! Starting to crave pumpkin now that fall is so close!
Whoa!! How do you ick just one?!?! I would make a choclate cake and then try your Honeybun cake. My tummy is growling already!
Thankss for the giveaway!
Yum! I would make cupcakes for sure. Maybe add a filling and then top with a really rich frosting. :) However, your honeybun cake sounds super gooooood.
I love that it isn’t loaded down with a pile of chemicals! Cool! I would use it to make cupcakes for my sweet baby girl. :-)
Cupcakes galore!
Love this recipe, Kristan and I haven’t made it years, so thanks for the reminder. I’ve been seeing these cake mixes pop up on blogs, so I’m definitely going to think about ordering a few. I love that they contain real stuff!
Cookies!! I love cake mix cookies, so simple yet so delicious!!
I have her cook book and love it. I have made so many of them it is hard to pick just one. There is a pumpkin cake that is really good.
I think I would try your yummy-looking honey bun cake! Looks delicious!
I would use the yellow cake mix and make Boston Cream Pie ’cause I love it and haven’t had it in eons.
I can envision maraschino cherries and toasted walnuts in a chocolate cake. The yellow cake would be good with seasonal fruits like apples.
I would have to make this honeybun cake if I won! It looks and sounds great!
My favorite from-a-mix chocolate cake.
Cake Mix Doctor Returns page 229. Classic Darn Good Chocolate Cake. I like to top it with Satin Glaze. I love all of her cookbooks!
I’d make some yummy cupcakes for my little girl ( and of course I’d have to taste test them too)
I’d make some delicious cupcakes..yum :)
How about using the cake mix to make “honeybun cake “cupcakes?…..the chocolate cake mixes would be great cupcakes for my quilting group. They love and insist on chocolate for refreshment time!
I would make cupcakes! They are so easy to make and share a couple with friends or neighbors.
i’d use the cake mixes to test out recipes for cupcakes !
I would definitely use the cake mixes to make simple cookies for my students! They are fast and I always get told how I’m a great baker from the 5th grade class!
I actually like to make cookies with cake mixes, they’re so easy and yummy!
Cupcakes in my new cupcake pan that has a lid for the pan and/or cake balls!
I’d make my cool & creamy coconut cake!
I’d use the chocolates for sure to make her chocolate avocado cake, which is my family’s favorite cake for birthdays! :)
I’s make a coconut lime cake…egg whites instead of whole eggs, coconut milk, yellow cake mix, lime zest and topped with fluffy white icing and shredded coconut.
I would use the mixes to help my kids learn how to bake at their own levels!
yum! SOunds awesome!! My dad loves honeybun cakes, so I would use one of the cake mixes for this recipe, then the rest for CUPCAKES :)
I’d
cupcakes, really, truely, super cutely, CUPCAKES!!!
I would make lots of cupcakes!!! yummy
This Honeybun Cake sounds fantastic, but I’ve been craving a simple cupcake topped with whipped cream and berries!
I would make the Honeybun Cake.. looks great!!
I would definitely use the cake mixes together and make a few layer cakes, and make cake pops with the remainders!
Love her cookbooks! Would make cupcakes to send to my college kids. They love care packages from home.
I love the cake mix doctor books!!! My far my favorite one I have made so far is the sour cream chocolate cake from the 2nd book. It is light, fluffy and moist. It is my go to cake!
Sounds amazing! I would use the yellow cake mixes to make an amazing rainbow cake for my son’s birthday and the chocolate mixes to make my favorite chocolate cake with homemade chocolate gloss frosting. Yummy!
I would make gooey butter cake!
cupcakes…chocolate
I would try this recipe and a family recipe that my husband loves!
I would make cupcakes.
I would use it to make a cake for my best friend’s birthday that is coming up in October.
I would love to try these cake mixes!! I haven’t seen them in the store but certainly will be hunting them down this week!! If I won a cake mix, I would definitely make a chocolate cake with a hint of espresso and a chocolate ganache filling-heavenly!!!!
I’d use them to try this recipe! I just made a Honeybun Cake last weekend, a little different than your recipe, but I’m going to try this one soon!
To bake a cake for my mom! :)
I’ve never had honeybun cake, but I’m into it! Yum!
I might have to try this honey bun cake!
First of all, I’d make this cake! :)
I would make a chocolate chip coffee cake with the yellow mix and also try a chocolate sheet cake with yummy icing with the chocolate mix. Anything with chocolate works for me!
I would have to try this honey bun cake!
I would make that Honeybun cake and a few of the cakes with just a can of soda!
For starters I would have to make the Honey Bun Cake! Chocolate cake for my husband’s b-day in October!
I would use the cake mixes to make recipes from your website! Of course!!
Awesome! Not being a suck up, but I would totally make your honeybun cake!
Eek, what a fun giveaway! I’d use the mixes to make something for my son’s kindergarten class.
My mom has some great recipes using cake mixes so I would dig out her cookbook and start baking!
Well now that I see your honeybun cake, I would have to try that first! Yum-my!
I’ve been wanting to try one of those upside down german chocolate cakes.
Since fall is around the corner, I would like to make an apple cake.
The Cake Mix Doctor is awesome! And I really want to try your Chocolate Cream Pie Cupcakes.
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I love doctoring up cake mixes! I would love to use the mixes to make this Honey Bun cake and maybe a coffee cake, some yummy chocolate cupcakes, and whoopie pies!! Thanks for the chance to win some!
We have several family birthdays in Sept so I would use them to whip up some special treats for my special family!!
I keep seeing recipes for cake batter flavored treats, & would definitely use the Cake Mix Doctor mix for one of those.
My family can’t get enough cake pops! My personal favorite is red velvet cake mix, mixed with cream cheese frosting, and coated in dark chocolate!
4 words- death by chocolate cupcakes. that is what i would make! i hope to win, but i’ll make those cupcakes either way :)
Well that honeybun cake looks REALLY good. And since I’m turning 30 in a few short weeks, I’m pretty sure I’d use the cake mixes to help me through that difficult time. With a sugar high.
I would DEFINITELY be baking your Honey Bun cake. I am salivating profusely (eeeewwwww!) as I write this. :)
Probally cookies! Since I`ve been really interested in cake mixes cookies!
& this cake looks fabulous!
I would use them to make my son’s 2nd birthday cake which is coming up in November :)
I’ve never used this cake mix but I sure would love to! First in line would be something extra extra chocolately! Thanks for the chance to win!
I’d make the honeybun cake but then I’d make my birthday cake for my birthday in a couple of months. Yes I have to make my own cake… but at least I know it’s good :)
I would use the vanilla mix to make cupcakes and fill them with a dolche de leche caramel. Yum!
Oh, definitely some cupcakes to celebrate…nothing. Nothing. at. all.
I would use it for the next baby shower I help host
Since my husbands birthday falls around Christmas, I always make an attempt to make the cake special. I am thinking I have a winner here
Two things come to mind for the cake mixes…. this Honeybun cake is a no-brainer but I’d like to try them for cake pops (which my neices love) I’ve used from-scratch recipes that are delicious but a little time consuming especially since the cake pop decorating is already time consuming. I’d love to see if the mixes will give me a from-scratch taste that retains the density and smoothness of cake pops.
The Honeybun cake looks great! I would make that first, then some cupcakes.
I would use one of the yellow cake mixes, for making a pound cake. The chocolate cake mix I would probably add semi sweet chocolate morsels and chocolate pudding mix to it.
I’d really like to try the cake batter waffle mix. :)
I’m sure the kids would love it.
I think I would try this Honey bun cake. it looks delicious!
YUM!! This looks delish!! My mother inlaw has one of these cookbooks and everything I have tried is awesome! I would love to try the cake mixes!!
I would make the Honeybun cake, and cupcakes for a bday party coming up!
I’d used them to make the death by chocolate cupcakes for my dorm!
I would make some cupcakes…my favorite!
Yummy lemon crumble bars…mmmmm…
Definitely I would make a double layer marble cake with a whipped cream and fresh raspberries filling, and a classic chocolate buttercream frosting!! 8)
So exciting ! I have the first Cake Mix Dr book and one of my family’s very favorites is the Snickerdoodle Cake!!!! Haven’t made that in awhile so this would be an awesome prize!
I have never heard of the Cake Mix Dr. but this cake sounds yummy.
Now I will have to go check out this new website. Thanks for sharing.
Let’s see…I’d probably make cupcakes, give one to each of my kiddos, and then the hubs and I would eat the rest after they were in bed. Not that we’ve ever done that or anything…
I like to use cake mixes when making bars.
Cakes, cupcakes and cake pops, oh my!
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I seldom use cake mixes for those exact reasons (to may preservatives & unpronounceable ingredients) however this one I would most certainly try, thanks for offering a giveaway.
I most certainly would try this recipe! Thanks!
That looks so good! i would definitely try the honeybun recipe. I would also make cupcakes with my daughter, and some cookies. I love cake mix cookies!
I like to make desserts for the seasons. I would love to make Halloween cupcakes for my granddaughter!
I love to make cute and tasty treats to share. I would definitely use the chocolate one to make your Death by Chocolate cupcakes.
I’d love to try the honeybun cake especially to make with my granddaughter!!
I made your honeybun cake, with a regular cake mix, this week and sent half of it to my friend who is a teacher (and also my food guinea pig). He shared it with his teacher coworkers. One of the teachers liked it do much she took it to the lunchroom and had the cooks dissect it so they could reproduce it. They want the recipe so they can serve it to the whole school!
I would totally make your HONEY BUN CAKE! My husband eats the Little Debbie Honey Buns ALL OF THE TIME! Maybe I could swap him away from a box with it! LOL!
I would make the Honeybun cake for sure, then some fudgy rich nutty dark sweet cake, I think I’ll just dive into it!
I would make some good ol cupcakes..
I would make what inspires me at the moment, that’s when I bake the best cakes and desserts!
I would make what inspires me at the moment. That’s when I bake the best cakes and desserts! :)
Hi! Oh my, where to begin! I guess the very first cake I would make would be my favorite Pumpkin Crunch cake, then my next favorite would be a chocolate chip cake, they both are to die for! But it being September I would definetly start with the pumpkin! Can’t wait to try the Honey Bun recipe! Yummo!!!!
That cake looks so good! I have never heard of the Cake Doctor…and Now i need to try them.. I would make a chocolate chip coffee cake with the yellow cake… and perhaps a heaven and hell cake with the chocolate
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