Busy Day Cakes That You Don't Have to Frost

Note: We use frosting for some cakes, but it’s drizzled or dipped. None of these cakes needs to be frosted.

Cakes Topped With Crunchy Toppings

What is Almond Crunch?

It’s a simple almond topping you put on your cake or cupcakes before baking. It’s quick and simple, and when your cake comes out of the oven, it’s ready to serve.

You simply stir almonds, an egg white, and sugar together and spoon it over the batter.

Here is a recipe to make enough almond crunch for a 9×13-inch sheet cake:

• 1-1/4 cups of sliced almonds
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg white.

Mix the sugar and egg white until the sugar is mostly dissolved. Fold in the sliced almonds. Spoon the mixture over the batter and bake per the cake directions.

 

Blueberry Crunch Muffins or Cupcakes

This is a blueberry muffin with an almond crunch. To make these as cupcakes, switch to a Vanilla Bean Cake Mix.

 

 

 

 

Almond Peach Crunch Cake with Caramel Sauce

This is a Vanilla Bean Cake. Diced peaches were folded into the batter. (The Vanilla Bean Cake is a cream cake with enough substance to hold up most inclusions. In lighter, fluffier cake mixes, the inclusions sink to the bottom.)

It is drizzled with a caramel buttermilk syrup.

Blueberry Lemon Crunch Cake

This is a Blueberry Lemon Crunch Cake. It is divine. Fresh blueberries are folded into the Vanilla Baby Cake batter, and the crunch topping is added before baking. It is drizzled with Lemon Syrup.

Bavarian Peach Crunch Cake

This is a layer cake made with a crunch topping. We used a larger vanilla cream cake mix, but you can use a Vanilla Baby Cake Mix with 8-inch round pans.

Between the layers are fresh peach slices and prepackaged Bavarian Cream.

Cakes Topped with Syrups and Sauces

Syrups and sauces are an easy way to finish a cake.  We often use buttermilk syrups, lemon sauce, and pancake syrups.

Lemon Angel Food Cake

This is a scratch cake, but you can make it with a store-bought cake.

The Lemon Sauce tastes just like lemon meringue pie. Use any leftover syrup for amazing pancakes or waffles.

Blueberry Lemon “Shortcake”

Vanilla Bean Cake drizzled with lemon syrup and blueberries. The blueberries stain the syrup magenta.

Lemon Pound Cake

This is a pound cake made with Vanilla Baby Cake. It’s simply a cake baked in a loaf pan, but the batter is swirled with Lemon Pastry Filling, and the cake is drizzled with frosting made with the same filling.

To swirl the batter, put a third of the batter and then a layer of lemon pastry filling.  The pastry filling is more intense than pie filling so it won’t take a lot. Add another third of the batter and then a layer of lemon filling.

Holding a spatula vertically, cut through the cake batter four or five times. The objective is to make ribbons of filling in the cake.

Peaches with Cinnamon Chip Cake

This is peach shortcake. The cake is loaded with cinnamon chips. The cake is drizzled with Cinnamon Buttermilk Syrup.

 

 

 

Lemon Coconut Poke Cake

It’s a Vanilla Bean Baby Cake drizzled with lemon syrup and loaded with lemon coconut. Holes were poked in the cake with a skewer so that the syrup runs into the holes and soaks the cake.

 

 

Cakes and Cupcakes Dipped or Drizzled

A quick and easy way to finish a cake or cupcakes is to heat the frosting and then dip the cupcakes into the frosting or drizzle it over the cake.  The frosting will set as it cools.

We often use tubs of premade fudge frosting. We simply put the tubs in the microwave to heat them.  It’s a very quick way to finish a dessert.

Ding-Dong Cake

Our Ding-Dong Cupcakes are so good, we had to morph them into a cake.

This cake is easy—it just doesn’t look like it. And it’s fabulous. It’s made with a Fudgy Baby Cake mix. The filling is made with vanilla whipped cream frosting (whipped cream with meringue powder added as a stabilizer).

A tub of fudge frosting was heated in the microwave until thick but pourable, then drizzled over the cake. You can also pour hot fudge sauce over your desserts.

 

Coffee Cake with a Drizzle

This is a very good coffee cake loaded with cinnamon chips and drizzled with a warmed vanilla frosting.

 

 

Strawberry Pound Cake

This is a strawberry version of our lemon pound cake.

It’s made with a Vanilla Bean Baby Cake Mix. Strawberry Pastry Filling is swirled through the batter before baking. The Strawberry Pastry Filling is also added to the frosting for both color and flavor.

 

Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes

These cupcakes are made with a Vanilla Bean Baby Cake Mix. The cupcakes were made in a greased pan, not with paper liners.

The cupcakes are filled with prepackaged Bavarian cream. They are dipped in a tub of warmed fudge frosting.

 

Saint Paul Turtle Cake

We copied this from a cake we found in a famous restaurant in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and written about in a regional magazine.

This is our version made with a Fudgy Baby Cakes Mix. We used a tub of fudge frosting for the fillings between the layers and on top, and then a tub of caramel frosting for a final drizzle.

See the recipe for the Saint Paul Turtle Cake.

 

Fudgy Bundt Cake

This is a bundt cake made with a Fudgy Baby Cakes mix. That’s fudgy frosting from a tub poured over it. 

Strawberry Twinkles

These are strawberry “twinkles” baked in a twinkle pan.

They are made with Vanilla Bean Cake Mix filled with a strawberry whipped cream stabilized with meringue powder. The whipped cream is inserted from the bottom with a pastry bag (the cakes are inverted from the pan).

Strawberry Pastry Filling was added to both the batter and the frosting.

 

 

 

Lime Bundt Cake

This is a bundt cake made with a Vanilla Baby Cake mix. That’s a lime-flavored frosting (you can use other flavors) drizzled over it. We sell a lime flavor.