Your baking mixes come in a box, but when you're getting ready to broil, there is no reason to keep the content's potential firmly hemmed into one. With a few alterations, a mix for cake can plow into a cookie, and muffins are no dissimilar. Don't become reaching for your muffin trays; you won't exist needing them to make whatever of the following six recipes that enlist boxed muffin mix to bake a delectable snack or dessert.

i. Corn Muffin Churros

Corn muffin churros
Corn muffin churros | Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

To brand churros at dwelling, use Food Network'due south shortcut and a corn muffin mix. To brand your own dipping sauces, you tin use your favorite recipe or make the Mexican chocolate and/or salted caramel sauce from ABC and Carla Hall.

Ingredients:

  • Vegetable oil, for frying (about six cups)
  • 1 (eight.5-ounce) box corn muffin mix
  • ane½ cups all-purpose flour
  • ⅓ cup saccharide, plus more for sprinkling
  • 1 teaspoon baking pulverization
  • ii teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • ii large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon finely grated orange zest
  • ⅔ loving cup buttermilk
  • Chocolate sauce or dulce de leche, warmed, for dipping

Directions: In a large, deep skillet, heat 3 inches of oil until a deep-fry thermometer registers 340 degrees. In a bowl, combine the muffin mix, flour, sugar, baking powder and one teaspoon cinnamon. Stir in the eggs, orangish zest, and buttermilk, whisking until combined.

Transfer half the batter to a pastry handbag fitted with a large star tip, and pipe 4-inch-long churros into the oil, nigh four at a fourth dimension. Fry until golden, about 15 seconds per side, turning once. Remove with a slotted spoon to drain on paper towels. Repeat with the remaining batter.

Combine the remaining 1 teaspoon cinnamon with sugar and sprinkle over the churros. Serve warm.

2. Chocolate Swirl Muffin Cake

Make chocolate cake using boxed muffin mix
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To bake a corrupt bundt block, use Betty Crocker's recipe and ii packages of muffin mix. Satisfy a sweetness tooth past serving the cake at a brunch or equally a dessert with a big scoop of ice cream.

Ingredients:

Filling

  • ane loving cup semisweet chocolate fries
  • ¾ cup whipping cream
  • ane teaspoon vanilla

Cake

  • ii boxes (16.4 ounces each) chocolate bit premium muffin mix
  • one⅓ cups water
  • ½ loving cup vegetable oil
  • 4 eggs

Directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a 12-cup fluted tube cake pan. Cook all filling ingredients over medium-low heat in a two-quart saucepan two to three minutes, stirring constantly, until smooth. Remove ⅓ loving cup filling for glaze; set aside. Freeze remaining filling 15 minutes until it has a pudding-like texture.

Stir together all cake ingredients in a large bowl. Spoon half the concoction into pan. Remove filling from freezer. Carefully spoon filling in center of batter to within ½ inch of pan edges. Spoon remaining batter over filling.

Bake l to 65 minutes or until top springs back when touched. Cool 15 minutes. Remove from pan to wire rack. Spoon reserved ⅓ cup filling on cake to glaze. Cool completely, nigh i hr.

3. Dulce de Leche Swirl Cheesecake

Dulce de Leche
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This cheesecake by Allison B. of Olive Branch, Mississippi, was a category winner for a Martha White baking competition, and information technology is easy to come across why. A sweet apple cider or cinnamon-flavored chaff is topped with creamy cheese and caramel for a dulce de leche cheesecake that will exist a hit at your adjacent gathering.

Ingredients:

Crust

  • ii (7-ounce) packages Apple Cider Flavored Muffin Mix or Cinnamon Sugar Muffin Mix (such as Martha White)
  • ½ cup very soft butter

Filling

  • three (eight ounces) packages Neufchatel or ⅓ less fat cream cheese, softened
  • ½ cup carbohydrate
  • three large eggs
  • ⅔ loving cup caramel topping

Directions: Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Coat the lesser of a nine-inch springform pan with no-stick cooking spray.

To brand the crust, beat muffin mix and butter on low speed of electric mixer until dough forms. Printing mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan. To make the filling, in a medium bowl, trounce foam cheese and sugar on low speed of electrical mixer for about one infinitesimal. Add the eggs,mixing until well-combined. Spread cream cheese mixture evenly over chaff. Pour caramel topping onto cheesecake layer. Swirl through mixture with pocketknife several times for a marbled pattern.

Bake for 45 to 55 minutes or until center is set and edges are light brown. Cool for 45 minutes at room temperature. Arctic overnight or at least iii hours before serving.

4. Cobbler

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Take a package of lemon poppy seed muffin mix and the directions and ingredients from AllRecipes.com to create a lemon and blackberry flavored cobbler dessert. Swap in different mixes and fruits for your ain cobbler creation.

Ingredients:

  • Cooking spray
  • five cups fresh blackberries
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 (15.8 ounce) parcel lemon poppy seed muffin mix
  • 1 egg
  • ⅓ cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon basis cinnamon
  • ½ cup butter at room temperature
  • 1 cup chocolate-brown sugar

Directions:Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a 9-by-9-inch baking pan with cooking spray. Spread the blackberries into the prepared baking pan, sprinkle with white carbohydrate, and drizzle with lemon juice. Mix the lemon-poppy seed muffin mix, egg, milk, and cinnamon in a bowl, and stir until moistened. Pour the batter over the blackberries.

In a bowl, mix the butter and brown sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Spread information technology over the batter in the pan. Bake in the preheated oven until the topping is browned and the blackberries are bubbling, most 1 hour. Allow to correspond 20 minutes before serving.

5. White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies

White chocolate raspberry cheesecake cookies
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Use muffin mix like Vi Sisters' Stuff did to bake soft, chewy cookies. Meant as an imitation of Subway's raspberry cheesecake cookies, the muffin mixed recipe yields about iii dozen cookies.

Ingredients:

  • iv ounces foam cheese, softened
  • ½ loving cup (1 stick) butter, softened
  • 2 tablespoons shortening
  • ½ cup dark-brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 (seven ounce) boxes raspberry muffin mix
  • ¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1½ cups white chocolate chips

Directions:Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Beat out together cream cheese, butter, shortening, and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl, until simply combined. Add the eggs one at a fourth dimension, beating later each. Fold in muffin mix and flour until combined. Stir in white chocolate chips; chill dough in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.

Lightly grease baking sheets with nonstick cooking spray. Roll dough into 1-inch assurance and identify on baking sheets. Bake for x to 12 minutes, or just until the edges are golden brown.

six. Waffles

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Information technology may still be a breakfast food, just the recipe from Mrs. Schwartz's Kitchen is just the innovative touch your muffin mix needs. A blueberry mix that only requires milk was used, meaning that this was a two-ingredient breakfast for the Schwartz kitchen. Other flavors also yielded wonderful waffles, and the recipe is like shooting fish in a barrel to experiment with.

Ingredients:

  • Your favorite muffin mix
  • Ingredients to brand muffins
  • Butter or syrup, for serving

Directions:Preheat waffle maker. Mix muffins according to the directions. Cascade muffin mix in waffle maker and cook as usual to your desired doneness. Serve with butter and/or syrup.