The Best Fresh Mango Cake

The Best Fresh Mango Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is the one that you make at home. If you are the box cake mix type of person, you will be surprised what an amazing cake you can make from scratch. If you have nver tried making a cake without a box mix, this might be your inaugural voyage into scratch baking!

Luscious Mangoes

Mangoes can be baked into a cake, but they lose the butter and acid flavor combo that makes mangoes so luscious. IMHO, the best way to use mangoes is always fresh! Of course pureed mangoes in a chilly beverage next to a swimming pool are a delight! But we are talking cake here, so let’s stick to the subject!

I wanted to pair the fresh mangoes with a rich butter cream frosting, but you can’t get any richer than cream cheese! I stole this frosting recipe from my 14 Carrot Cake recipe (which really is the best carrot cake recipe ever!)

Better than a Box

Then, I combined it with this old fashioned yellow cake recipe. I love this cake recipe because it is very easy and reliable – which is exactly why we use box cake mixes! This recipe is a great level up, especially if you don’t want to go back to the super market for a cake mix!

You can definitely make the yellow cake a day in advance and then frost and fill later. In fact, the cake will be a bit more solid and will hold its’s shape better the next day. Just wrap in plastic wrap after the cake has completely cooled and leave at room temperature. for up to 24 hours, or 2 days in the refrigerator.

A new feature in my recipes will be how much cake batter a cake recipe makes. Box cake mixes make 4-6 cups of cake batter. Bundt cake molds hold up to 12 cups of cake batter. This recipe produced 8 cups of cake batter. It is difficult to know which cake pan to use if you have no idea how much cake batter your recipe will yield. I really like changing the shapes of my cakes, and the cake batter yield is important info when choosing the right sized cake pan.

I hope you enjoy this Fresh Mango Cake as much as we did! It is even better the next day when all of the flavors have soaked in – so delicious!