These Cake Mix Strawberry Brownies are the perfect alternate to regular chocolate brownies. These are bursting with strawberry flavor and only take 4 ingredients, but still have the same fudgy texture.
I am always making bars and brownies for school lunches and for grab and go snacks. My son loves my Biscoff Brownies and my Smores Cookie Bars. Give them a try.
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Why this Strawberry Brownies Recipe is a Keeper
This dessert recipe is delicious and so easy, comforting and super cute. Strawberry brownies with cake mix is a great sweet treat to make for a fun pink snack or for Valentine’s Day, especially if you know strawberry lovers.
- Ingredients: Most versions are only made with strawberry cake mix, oil, and eggs. These brownies are made with cake mix with pudding.
- Texture: They hit that perfect middle ground between a fudgy brownie and a soft cookie bar.
- Visual Appeal: That bright pink color makes them a standout for Valentine’s Day, baby showers, or summer potlucks. Plus, they’re chewy with the perfect strawberry flavoring to the baked brownies.
Why Did My Brownies Turn Out Like A Cake Instead Of Fudgy Brownies?
These delicious strawberry brownies are a nice middle between fudgy brownies and soft cookies. If your strawberry brownie batter probably needed a little more liquid.
Pro Tip For Strawberry Dessert
Pulse about 1/2 cup of freeze-dried strawberries in a food processor until they become a fine powder, then whisk that powder directly into the dry cake mix.
Ingredient Notes To Make Strawberry Brownies
You only need a few easy-to-find ingredients to make strawberry cake mix recipes, many of which you may have. It is so much easier than brownies from scratch.
Get the full printable recipe with specific measurements and directions in the recipe card below.
- Cake Mix: A box of strawberry cake mix provides all the dry ingredients you need, and some of the delicious strawberry flavor.
- Instant Pudding: Use a strawberry instant pudding to help make the base of the batter.
Variations and Substitutions For Cake Mix Brownies
There are a couple different swaps you can make to make this recipe extra delicious.
- The Glaze: Top with a simple lemon juice and powdered sugar glaze to cut the sweetness.
- Mix-ins: Make these strawberry brownies more exciting by folding in white chocolate chips, dark chocolate chunks, or freeze-dried strawberry bits.
- The Mix: Try this recipe with a lemon cake mix or orange cake mix for a different citrus “brownie”. You could even experiment with regular chocolate brownie batter mix or vanilla cake mix. You could even try red velvet brownies.
- Oil Swap: Use melted butter instead of vegetable oil for a richer, more shortbread-like flavor.
- Toppings: Feel free add fresh strawberry slices, strawberry jam or strawberry preserves on top of the brownies.
Special Equipment Needed for Easy Strawberry Brownies
Although there aren’t any special tools needed to make this easy recipe, one thing is useful when it’s time to clean up.
- Parchment Paper: Essential for lifting the whole slab of chewy pink brownies out for clean, Instagram-worthy squares.
How to Make Strawberry Cake Mix Brownies
This is one of the easiest recipes ever. Chocolate covered strawberry brownies come together in 2 steps, and is perfect for a party or get-together.
Get the full printable recipe with specific measurements and directions in the recipe card below.
- Make the Batter: In a large mixing bow, whisk together the instant pudding and milk. Then, mix the cake mix and white chocolate chips in.
- Pour and Bake: Pour the batter into a greased 9×13 inch baking dish. Bake in a preheated oven for about 30 minutes, then let brownies cool completely before slicing.
Prep Ahead Suggestions For Fudgy Strawberry Brownies
I like to prepare this easy dessert recipe ahead of time so that I don’t have to make it after dinner.
- Prep Ahead: You can mix the batter a few hours early, but since it takes 5 minutes, it’s usually best to make fresh.
Alternate Cooking Methods to Make Brownies
This is a great dessert to make in the air fryer or convection oven.
- Air Fryer: You can bake these in a small foil pan at 320°F for about 20–25 minutes.
- Convection: Reduce the oven temperature by 25°F if using a convection setting to prevent the top from browning too quickly.
Store Strawberry Brownies & Freeze Strawberry Brownies
- Store: Let the brownies cool before packing them away. Strawberry brownies store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days. You can also keep the brownies in the refrigerator.
- Freeze: These great recipe freezes beautifully. Wrap individual squares in plastic wrap and store in a freezer bag for up to 3 months.
- Reheat: 10–15 seconds in the microwave makes them taste like they just came out of the oven.
- Use Leftovers: Crumble them over vanilla bean ice cream or use them as a base for a strawberry trifle with whipped cream and fresh berries.
Questions About The Best Strawberry Brownie Recipe
Sure, some of my favorites include chocolate chips or freeze dried strawberry.
Insert a toothpick into the center of the pan to check for doneness. When it comes out clean, then they are ready.
Tips for Making Strawberry Brownies From Cake Mix
I love making different flavors of brownies, lemon brownies are a particular favorite. When the brownies are made with pudding in the mix it makes them even better.
- Don’t Overbake: Pull them out when the edges are set but the center still looks slightly underdone. They will firm up as they cool.
- The “Clean Cut” Trick: Wait until they are completely cool before slicing. For the cleanest lines, use a plastic knife (seriously, it works better than metal for brownies).
- Check Your Mix Size: Standard cake mixes have shrunk recently (from 18 to 15.25 ounces). If using a smaller 15 ounce box, ensure you aren’t using jumbo eggs, or the batter may be too wet.
- Serve this recipe with: Serve with Chocolate Glazed Biscuit Donuts, Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies or Red Velvet Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting.
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Cake Mix Strawberry Brownies
Equipment
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Ingredients
- 3.9 ounces Instant strawberry pudding, 1 package
- 2 cups Milk
- 15.25 ounces Strawberry cake mix, 1 box
- 1 cup White chocolate chips
Instructions
- Start by preheating the oven to 350℉ and grease a 9×13 baking dish with nonstick cooking spray or line with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the instant pudding and milk until the pudding mixture is completely dissolved.
- Then add the cake mix to the pudding and mix until combined.
- Using a rubber spatula, fold in the white chocolate chips.
- Add the strawberry brownie batter to the prepared baking dish.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Allow to cool completely before slicing and serving.
Christina’s Notes
- This Recipe Can be Doubled: This strawberry brownies are going to be a hit, if you are making them for a party double the ingredients and split between 2-9×13 inch baking dishes or 3 8×8 inch square baking pan.
- Serve Warm: For the best brownie sundae you’ll have, serve warm out of the oven with vanilla ice cream, fresh strawberries, and white chocolate sauce.
- Fit Parchment Paper: Watch this video from Natasha’s Kitchen for this genius and simple hack to get parchment paper to fit your pan perfectly.
- Scale the recipe: Simply adjust the serving size in the recipe card and the ingredients will update automatically.
- Make your own All Purpose Seasoning: When a recipe calls for All Purpose Seasoning, you can use my homemade All Purpose Seasoning recipe or substitute salt and pepper to taste.
- Meat doneness: I always use a meat thermometer to test for doneness when cooking meat.
- Use unsalted butter: I use unsalted butter so I can control the salt level in the recipe.
- Preheat the oven: Unless otherwise noted, always preheat your oven before baking.
For more helpful information about this recipe, such as variations, substitutions and other pro-tips, check out the blog post.
This is a great recipe to make with kids. I used a different brand cake mix but same pudding brand. Used Lactose-free milk. We found the finished, cooled product, not ,like chewy brownies but more like rubbery cake honestly. I would not make it again.
That could be due to several factors, the pan size, was their fat in the milk? The oven temperature and cooking time.
I am having a hard time finding strawberry pudding.
Look for sonic strawberry shake pudding. I find that everywhere. It is on amazon, Walmart etc.