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It's September. . .and We're Already Baking Fall Desserts!
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Rise and Shine Spice Muffins
Start your morning with Rise and Shine Spice Muffins! These soft, fluffy molasses muffins are topped with crunchy raw sugar and bursting with warm spices.
Chocolate Molasses Spice Cookies
This rich, chewy holiday cookie starts with a chocolate cake mix and gets a cozy upgrade from warm spices and deep, sweet molasses.
Easy Pumpkin Pound Cake (from a Cake Mix)
This Easy Pumpkin Pound Cake (from a cake mix) is dense, moist, and bursting with cozy fall spices—perfect with coffee, tea, or as a holiday dessert.
Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Loaf
This Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Loaf is moist, spiced to perfection, and bursting with rich molasses flavor. A timeless holiday classic, perfect with whipped cream or a lemon glaze.
Sweet Potato Muffins with Oat Streusel Topping
These Sweet Potato Muffins with Oat Streusel Topping are moist, flavorful, and perfectly spiced—an easy fall bake that tastes just like home.
Old-Fashioned Molasses Cake with Brown Sugar Buttercream (Doctored Cake Mix)
This Old-Fashioned Molasses Cake starts with a simple cake mix and bakes up rich, moist, and perfectly spiced with a luscious brown sugar buttercream.
The Best Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
Whip up the dreamiest cinnamon cream cheese frosting—perfectly spiced, silky smooth, and just the right balance of tang and sweetness. Ideal for cakes, cupcakes, and cinnamon rolls!
Soft Gingerbread Cookies with Cinnamon Glaze
These soft, pillowy gingerbread cookies are full of warm holiday spices and topped with a sweet cinnamon glaze. Perfect for Christmas cookie trays, they’re a festive twist on the classic.
Rich and Creamy Coffee Buttercream
This rich and creamy Coffee Buttercream is smooth, fluffy, and full of bold espresso flavor. Perfect for cakes, cupcakes, cookies, brownies, and more, it’s an easy recipe that brings coffeehouse charm to your favorite desserts.
Gingerbread Latte Cupcakes
Warmly spiced gingerbread meets a coffee-kissed buttercream — your kitchen will smell like a holiday coffee shop.
About Janice
Let’s Step Out of the Box, Y’all!
If you love to bake and you’re looking for great hacks that start with a boxed mix, you’ve come to the right place! Out of the Box Baking is the brain-child of Janice Thompson (yours truly), an inspirational author of over 165 books and self-proclaimed cake and cookie expert.
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