Favorite Cake Mix Cookie Recipe posted by Something Swanky Pin Share Tweet Email Jump to Recipe SomethingSwanky is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. My favorite recipe for cake mix cookies. You can make so many different kinds of cookies with just one recipe! I have a deep and abiding love for all recipes that start with a cake mix. Why? There are lots of reasons, but among the most important are: You can always count on the flavor of a cake mix recipe. You know exactly how it’s going to taste, and that flavor will always be consistent. Almost invariably, a cake mix recipe is going to produce a really moist baked good. That’s what it’s designed to do, and so you know you can count on anything you make with a cake mix to come out of the oven perfectly moist and stay that way for at least a few days. Cake mix recipes are usually simple with a short ingredient list, because so many of the “little” ingredients (like salt, baking soda, etc) are already included in the mix. The variety!! Thanks to a huge variety of cake mix flavors, you have so many flavor options to play around with right at your fingertips. I’ve made a lot of cake mix recipes (scones, fudge, banana bread, pancakes, and so much more!), but this cake mix cookie recipe is the one I come back to most often. I’ll link to some of my other favorite cake mix cookies at the bottom of this post. PSSSSST! FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM TO GET NEW DESSERTS DAILY! One Cake Mix Cookie Recipe with a hundred easy variations! A FEW THINGS TO NOTE ABOUT THIS RECIPE: The actual volume of the cake mix may vary slightly from brand to brand, but generally you’re looking for a cake mix in the range of 15-18 ounces. The recipe I’m providing below is the basic recipe for cake mix cookies (not the actual recipe for the cookies pictured). If you want to make the cookies you see here, make these additions: 1) for the cake batter cookies use a yellow cake mix and add 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips, 1/2 cup white chocolate chips, and 1/2 cup sprinkles. 2) for the chocolate PB chip cookies use a devil’s food cake mix and add 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips and 1/2 cup peanut butter chips. Try making these same cookies with a brownie mix! Simply sub a brownie mix for the cake mix and decrease the oil to 1/4 cup. So good! Continue to Content Cake Mix Cookies Yield: 18 cookies Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 15 minutes My favorite recipe for cake mix cookies. You can make so many different kinds of cookies with just one recipe! Print Ingredients 15.25 ounce cake mix 1/4 cup all purpose flour 1/2 cup vegetable oil 2 large eggs 1 cup chocolate chips Instructions Preheat oven to 350ºF. Mix together the cake mix, flour, oil, and eggs (I feel like this always comes together so much better in a stand mixer using the paddle attachment than when I do it by hand). Mix in the chocolate chips. Scoop 2 tablespoons of dough and roll into a ball and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten slightly with your palm. Repeat with the remaining dough, placing the dough 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack for cooling. Notes Calories 239 | Fat 13g | Saturated Fat 4g | Carbohydrates 29 | Fiber 1g | Sugar 18g | Protein 2g More recipes I think you’ll love! M&M Brownie Cookies Carrot Cake Cookies Homemade Oreo Cookies Lemon White Chocolate M&M Cookies Red Velvet M&M Cookies Try these fun flavor combos! 1 YEAR AGO: SAMOAS BANANA BREAD DONUTS 2 YEARS AGO: FUDGY FROSTED BROWNIES 3 YEARS AGO: 50+ SPRING TIME DESSERTS 4 YEARS AGO: 100+ COCONUT DESSERTS 5 YEARS AGO: 50+ MOUSSE RECIPES 6 YEARS AGO: DEEP FRIED CADBURY EGGS 7 YEARS AGO: RAINBOW CUPCAKES
I love the ease of these and the sprinkles, a totally winner! There’s nothing wrong with cake mix or pudding cookies – it adds so much softness and flavor and these look perfect! great CHART, too – so creative!
Why settle on one recipe, right? That’s half the fun I think….finding something you like even BETTER than what you think are your best! LOVE all the options you thought up for fun flavor combos! The chocolate covered strawberry ones would be fun, but I’m with ya on loving the original chocolate chip cookie more than most!
These look amazing! I love all the variations that you propose and that the ingredients are all in my cupboard right now! Perfect!
Wow, love the options! Life is so much better when you have choices. Harder, but better. 🙂 These cookies are so cute! I can’t think of anybody who wouldn’t be super excited to eat them!
I love making cake mix cookies too. One question…where do you find 18.25 ounce cake mixes? All I can get around here are 15.25 ounce (Betty Crocker and Pillsbury) and 16.5 ounce (Duncan Hines). Not even store brands are 18.25 ounces any more in my area. Would this list of ingredients work with the smaller size cake mixes? Thanks! Your cookies look delicious. 🙂
I’ll be making these tonight!! I love cake mix cookies. So easy and always so good. By the way, your photography is amazing. I wish we still lived by each other so I could take a few lessons!
You are so sweet!!! I always think that I wish we still lived near each other. Every time I have a project that needs some class, I’m always like “if only Caitlin were here to help me…” 😉
That should be just fine. I think most of the standard mixes are around 15 ounces, and I’m sure that’s what I used.
