Bakery-Worthy Cake Mix Desserts That Actually Work

Welcome to Practically Homemade! Here you’ll find simple, reliable recipes that turn a box mix into something truly special—cookies, bars, and cakes your family will love and request again and again.

Blueberry cheesecake cookies stacked on each other.

Cake Mix Cookies

Looking down on a whole Snickerdoodle Bundt Cake with cinnamon sugar topping.

Vanilla & White Cake Mix

A finished Texas Sheet Cake Bundt Cake with chocolate pecan frosting.

Chocolate Cake Mix

Golden Oreo Cake with cookies baked inside and topped with them.

Yellow Cake Mix

Red velvet cake donut with cream cheese glaze and pearl sugar sprinkles.

Red Velvet Cake Mix

bakery-style copycat cookies

Copycat Cookies

Easy Crumbl Copycat Cookies You Can Make with Cake Mix

Easy Cosmic Brownie Cookies

Desserts

Easy Crumbl Copycat Oreo Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies

Super Easy Raspberry Crumble Cookies Recipe

most loved cake mix recipes

Desserts

Texas Sheet Cake Cookies

Cakes

Snickerdoodle Cake Recipe (with Bundt Pan or 9×13)

Desserts

Kentucky Butter Cake Cookies Recipe

Desserts

Easy Tres Leches Cake

Desserts

Easy Boston Cream Pie Cookie Bites Recipe

Desserts

Easy Fall Desserts: Cake Mix Apple Cobbler Recipe

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June Albertson-Dick is a cookbook author, recipe developer, and former high school culinary teacher turned full-time food blogger. With decades of real-life experience—from running a restaurant to teaching everyday cooks—she creates approachable, tested recipes that make baking feel easy and fun. As the creator of Practically Homemade, June is known for her simple cake mix desserts that give home bakers confidence and sweet success in the kitchen.

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