super quick recipes with few ingredients

Chocolate / Cherry Muffins

Ingredients:
  • 1 Box Betty Crocker Super Moist Devils Food Chocolate Cake Mix
  • 1 - 10 oz Jar of Maraschino Cherries
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1/2 cup Avocado Oil
  • Water
​Directions:
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  • Drain Liquid from Jar of Cherries into a small measuring cup
  • Add just enough water to the liquid until it measures 1- cup
  • Remove Cherries from jar and, using kitchen shears, cut each Cherry into 3 or 4 small pieces
  • In a medium size mixing bowl, mix the Cake Mix, Cherries, Cherry/Water Mixture, Eggs, and Oil together by hand
  • ​Fill 12 paper muffin cups (about 3 tbsp each) with mixture, then bake for 16-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Ann’s Pineapple Cake

Ingredients:
  • 1- Box Yellow Cake Mix
  • 1- Box Instant Vanilla Pudding
  • 1- 8 oz. Package Cream Cheese
  • 1- 8 oz. Tub Cool Whip
  • 1- 20 oz. Can Crushed Pineapple with Syrup
​1- Box Yellow Ca
​Directions:
  • Prepare Pudding according to directions
  • Thaw Cream Cheese and Cool Whip
  • Prepare Cake Batter according to directions (I use only 85%-90% of wet mix).
  • Bake Cake and allow to cool.
  • Drain Pineapple very well
  • Spread Pineapple evenly over cooled cake (1st layer)
  • Use mixer to blend Cream Cheese into Pudding and spread over pineapple (2nd layer)
  • Spread Cool Whip over Pudding (3rd layer)
  • Refrigerate overnight.​

Cherry and Pineapple Dump Cake  

Ingredients:
  • 1 (20-oz.) can pineapple tidbits
  • 1 (21-oz.) can cherry pie filling
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/3 pkg. yellow cake mix.
  • 1/2 stick unsalted butter
​1- Box Yellow Ca
​Directions:
  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • Lightly grease an 8” x 8” Pyrex glass baking dish with avocado oil.
  • Drain and save the juice from the can of pineapple tidbits.
  • Place pineapple pieces and cherry pie filling in a bowl; mix together.
  • Pour mixture into the prepared baking dish.
  • Sprinkle the surface of the filling evenly with the yellow cake mix.
  • In the saucepan over low heat, melt butter then mix with vanilla extract and reserved pineapple juice.
  • Pour the mixture evenly over the cake mix. Use a spoon to spread the juice mixture across the mix.
  • Transfer the baking dish to the middle rack of the oven.
  • Bake until the top is golden brown in spots and the filling is bubbling, about 45 minutes.
  • Allow to cool