Although my baking of choice is starting from the very beginning and not using mixes, I do like to keep a box of biscuit in the cupboard. The generic as well as the name brand are good and they can save the day when life is going faster than you are getting things accomplished.
The box always lists a variety of recipes but the one I go to the most is the one for . . . biscuits! Basically, you add milk to the mix, roll, cut out, bake, and you have hot biscuits within 15 minutes. If you want really light and tasty biscuits, use buttermilk instead of milk for the liquid.
Over the years, however, I've turned to my short cut mix for quick dessert cakes. I don't have a specific recipe but my throw-together concept is a cup or two of the mix, an egg or two (depending on the amount of mix used), melted butter, milk, sugar, and vanilla extract. I mix to form a very soft, spreadable batter and put it in an appropriate baking pan.
You can bake it as is but to really take this up a notch, mix 1/2 cup of baking mix with 1/4 cup ground nuts, 1 cup of brown sugar, cinnamon, and 1 stock of butter to form a crumbly mixture. Spread this over the top of the unbaked cake, swirl in the batter a bit, and bake. This never comes out quite the same as I'm always in a hurry when I throw it together! The thing is that it is almost fool-proof even for a harried mother with seemingly twenty children pulling at your shirttail while you try and get a meal prepared.
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