Cake Mix Cookies – easy 4-ingredient recipe for soft, chewy sugar cookies. Customize with sprinkles for any holiday or party!
These Cake Mix Cookies couldn’t be any simpler. Just four basic grocery store ingredients including the sprinkles!
The possibilities are endless!
WHY I LOVE THIS RECIPE:
- It requires minimal ingredients I usually already have on hand.
- Easy to customize the cookies with different sprinkles!
- They SO GOOD! Soft and chewy, golden brown on the bottom – YUM!
WHAT ARE CAKE MIX COOKIES?
Cake Mix Cookies start with a box cake mix blended with a couple of other ingredients and sprinkles or a bonus ingredient that bake into soft, delicious irresistible cookies.
The best part of this recipe is that it’s basic so you can change the theme of these cookies just by what you add to the basic dough i.e. the bonus ingredient.
These cookies can be whipped up quickly and are ideal for getting little hands involved. They’re great for parties, cookie exchanges, after school snacks or even bake sales.
BONUS INGREDIENTS:
Bonus ingredients are just yummy ingredients you can add to the cookie dough to switch it up?
- sprinkles corresponding to the current holiday
- chopped candy
- chocolate chips
- butterscotch chips
- nuts
- . . . you get the idea.
WHAT’S IN CAKE MIX COOKIES?
- box white cake mix
- eggs
- vegetable oil
- sprinkles OR bonus ingredient (see below for suggestions)
HHOW TO MAKE CAKE MIX COOKIES?
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees then line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, blend the cake mix, eggs and vegetable oil until combined then stir in the sprinkles by hand (no mixer).
Roll the dough into balls. I used a 1 1/2″ scooper, equal to about 1 heaping tablespoon using your hands to form a smooth ball.
Pour the sprinkles into a bowl. Roll the dough balls into the sprinkles coating then transfer to the baking sheet about 2″ apart.
Bake 9-12 minutes or until the cookies are lightly golden on the edges.
Remove from the oven and leave on the baking sheet 2 timed minutes then transfer to a wire baking rack to finish cooling. Store in an airtight container on the counter up to 3 days.
CAN YOU FREEZE CAKE MIX COOKIES?
YesB! These cookies freeze really well.
Store baked cookies up to 3 months in an airtight freezer-safe container.
To freeze raw dough, form into cookie dough balls, place on a baking sheet in the freezer one house then transfer to an airtight freezer-safe container. Thaw the dough then bake per this recipe.
OTHER SUGGESTED CAKE MIX COOKIE IDEAS:
Using different flavor cake mixed, the cookie options are almost endless. Here are a few flavor suggestions:
Red Velvet Cake Mix + White Chocolate Chips
Yellow Cake Mix + crushed Heath candy bar
German Chocolate Cake Mix + Pecans + Coconut
Lemon Cake Mix + White Chocolate Chips
White cake mix + crushed candy canes
Yellow cake mix + candy heart – The Grinch cookies
Enjoy!
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Cake Mix Cookies
Equipment
- baking sheet
- parchment paper
Ingredients
- 1 box white cake mix 15.25 ounce size
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup sprinkles *or other BONUS ingredient* see body of post for suggestions
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, blend the cake mix, eggs and vegetable oil until combined then stir in the sprinkles by hand (no mixer).
- Roll the dough into 1 1/2" balls (I used a 1 1/2″ scooper) then use your hands to form a smooth ball.
- Pour the sprinkles into a bowl. Roll the dough balls into the sprinkles to coat then transfer to the baking sheet about 2″ apart.
- Bake 8-10 minutes or until the cookies are lightly golden on the edges.
- Remove from the oven and leave on the baking sheet 2 timed minutes then transfer to a wire baking rack to finish cooling. Store in an airtight container on the counter up to 3 days.