Between the ready-to-bake Pillsbury cookie dough and Betty Crocker’s baking mixes, we can have a fresh batch of cookies out of the oven and in our stomachs in no time—and with very minimal effort.

The Outstandiful Cookie Pie brings together their chocolate fudge cake mix with vanilla frosting. “For more than 100 years, fans have trusted Betty Crocker to bring joy into the world through ...