Cake mix cakes, slices & biscuit recipes
- More easy bakes
- Ways with cake mix
- Easy lemon curd cupcakes
- Women’s Weekly Duck Cake recipe
- Chocolate pudding cake
- Easter bunny cake
- Easy Halloween cupcakes
- Upside-down toffee date and banana cake
- Australian Women’s Weekly Dolly Varden Cake
- Tennis court birthday cake
- Choo-choo train cake
- Cake mix number cakes
These recipes for cake mix cakes, biscuits and slices, make baking easy. With this convenient and clever hack, it takes only a few extra ingredients to bake a variety of delicious sweet treats.
We’ve given the classic Cornflake biscuit an overhaul with this clever cake mix cookies hack. Our apple and sour cream slice recipe is one of our most popular, and a real time saving bake thanks to the use of packet cake mix and store bought, canned pie apples.
Cake mix cakes are also a handy time-saver when hosting a birthday party. We love a fun party cake at The Weekly, and you’ll some of our most popular children’s birthday cakes are made with packet mix. In fact, packet cake mix underpins all the cakes in our iconic Children’s Birthday Cake Book, from the Duck Cake to the Pool Cake, and of course, Dolly Varden. Although you can make your own butter cake or vanilla cake if preferred. And in fact, this one bowl butter cake is about as easy to make as a packet cake mix!
In 2025, we celebrated 45 years of The Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book. As part of that, The Weekly sat down four with of the women who created cakes for the book. Read the stories behind the classic cakes. You’ll discover why the duck cake has a potato chip beak, and which cake you need bravery to attempt…
More easy bakes
If you’re after more fuss-free baking recipes, see our collection of easy baking ideas. From slice-and-bake biscuits to butter cakes, loaf cakes and scones, you’re sure to find a delightful treat to enjoy. There are also recipes for desserts, including bread and butter pudding, and apple crumble cake.
Ways with cake mix

Easy banana cake made from cake topped with pecans on a pink plate.

cornflake cake mix cookies on a pink cloth

Apple and Sour Cream Slice

red velvet cookies sandwiched with icing on a marble slab

Twelve lemon curd cupcakes with pink patty cases on a pink surface.
Easy lemon curd cupcakes

Women's Weekly Duck Cake Recipe
Women’s Weekly Duck Cake recipe

chocolate pudding cake
Chocolate pudding cake

easter bunny birthday cake recipe
Easter bunny cake

Four different Halloween cupcakes
Easy Halloween cupcakes

The Australian Women’s Weekly swimming pool cake

upside-down toffe date and banana cake
Upside-down toffee date and banana cake

Australian Women's Weekly Dolly Varden Cake
Australian Women’s Weekly Dolly Varden Cake

Tennis Court
Tennis court birthday cake

The Australian Women’s Weekly train cake








