This holiday season try making one of these delicious Christmas cookie recipes made with cake mix. Using boxed cake mix saves you time in whipping these quick treats and the cookies come out tasting amazing!
During the busy holiday season I love finding easy to make recipes that save me time and still taste delicious. Cake mix cookies are a winning combination of quick and tasty.
The next time you are looking for easy Christmas cookies to make try one of these recipes. They are perfect to serve during the holiday season, make a great cookie swap cookie and will be a huge hit at your next holiday party.
Why we love Cake Mix Christmas Cookies:
So easy to make – starting with a cake mix means less time spent on measuring out ingredients. These cookies are so easy to mix up.
No fancy ingredients needed – I love delicious recipes that don’t require special ingredients that need to be purchased. You may already have many of these basic ingredients on hand.
Saves you money – Love cake mix cookies? Then save yourself some money by purchasing your favorite cake mixes when they go on sale. Stores often put cake mixes on sale around the holidays to entice customers in to purchase their sale items. With the cost of everything constantly going up why not take advantage of these sales to buy a few extra boxes.
Money and Time Saving Tip: Cake mix has a fairly long shelf life so I often buy cake mix when it goes on sale several weeks or even months before Christmas comes around.
I know I will often begin making cookies for gifts before the holiday sales begin. I don’t want to rush around making dozens of cookies during the week of Christmas I buy them on sale ahead of time then make and sometimes even freeze the cookies. It’s a great way to avoid stress during the week before the holiday AND it saves me money too!
Ingredients for Cake Mix Cookie Recipes:
Most cake mix cookies take simple ingredients to make them. Many of them will call for some of the following:
Boxed Cake Mix – the type of cake mix being called for will depend on the recipe.
Vegetable Oil – a light flavored vegetable oil is often used to make these cookies.
Eggs – large sized eggs for make cake mix cookie recipes.
Chocolate Chips or Holiday Sprinkles – many cake mix cookie recipes will call for some type of chocolate chip or white chocolate chip to be mixed into the cookies. Others will use sprinkles to decorate them. You may also find some recipes that use candy such as crushed candy canes to add flavor to the cookies.
Equipment needed for Cake Mix Cookies:
Large bowl for mixing
Hand held mixer or bowl mixer
Baking sheet
Parchment paper – cake mix cookies are very soft and pliable when they come out of the oven. Making them on parchment paper allows you to remove them from the baking sheet so they can cool before you remove them. If you try to remove them when they are warm they can break apart.
Mini cookie scoop – use this to quickly portion out cookie dough balls that are even in size
Chocolate Peppermint Cake Mix Cookies
These chocolate peppermint cake mix cookies are created with your favorite cake mix and a handful of pantry staples. Rich and fudgy they are topped with white chocolate and sprinkled with peppermint candy bits.
With some premade icing and mini M&M's you can quickly decorate your cake mix cookies with a string of Christmas lights. These are the perfect cookie for your next cookie swap.
Reindeer Cake Mix Cookies are a super easy treat to make for the holidays. Get the kids involved to decorate them. So fun and festive. Perfect for cookie exchanges.
Best old fashioned ginger crinkle cookies recipe! These chewy ginger crackles are the best soft ginger cookies! And we’re making these gingerbread crinkle cookies with cake mix!
Looking for a super simple treat to serve for the holidays or to add to your holiday cookie tray? Then add this super cute Snowman Cookie recipe made with cake mix to your cookie list.
Get Ready to Steal the Grinch’s Heart! These easy Grinch Heart Cookies with white chocolate chips are a holiday delight that even the Grinch himself couldn’t resist!
This easy and soft Gingerbread Cookies with a cake mix recipe is the perfect holiday cookie. The dough comes together quickly, rolls out perfectly and bakes up with a soft bite that is totally delicious.
Christmas Cake Mix Cookies are one of the easiest Christmas cookie exchange recipes ever. Boxed cake mix saves you tons of time in this simple holiday treat.
Mexican Spiced Chocolate Chip Cookies are a busy mom’s best friend! No one will ever guess they were made with a box of cake mix. They are soft, rich and delicious!
Chocolate Caramel Cake Mix Cookies are a quick and easy cookie recipe to bake any day of the week. Cake mix cookies are soft and chewy like the best bakery cookies.
These Mint Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies are the easiest cookie recipe ever! With just 5 ingredients and 5 minutes you can quickly whip up a fresh batch of cookies.
Snowball Cookies are soft, chewy, tender cake mix cookies that are coated in powdered sugar to look like “snowballs.” Perfect for when you need a simplified or nut-free version of the classic cookie.
These Cool Whip Cookies are light and airy, The basic formula uses just 3 ingredients. Swap out the cake mix flavors and create a variety of easy to make cookies for the holiday.
These chocolate Sheet Cake Cookies are a bite size version of the popular chocolate cake made with a cake mix and a tub of store-bought frosting! Just the cookie when you need big chocolate flavor.
Easy Cake Mix Sugar Cookies uses 3 simple ingredients to create the perfect holiday sugar cookie. These make a great base for adding other things to them like sprinkles, icing or candy. Your kids and Santa will love these!
Did you know you can make Peanut Butter Blossom cookies with a cake mix? Tasty peanut butter cookies topped with a Hershey's Kiss are made with a box of yellow cake mix. Grab a box and mix up these holiday favorites.
These Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies are the perfect cake mix cookies! A double chocolate cookie with a gooey marshmallow center taste like a delicious smore in cookie form.
Store any leftover cookies in an airtight container for up to 7 days.
Here’s the basic Cake Mix Cookie Recipe. Use it as a starting point to create delicious variations of these easy cookies.
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Cake Mix Cookies
With just 3 simple ingredients you can quickly bake up a batch of delicious Cake Mix Cookies.
In a large mixing bowl combine the cake mix, eggs and vegetable oil until it just comes together as dough.
1 box yellow cake mix, 2 large eggs, 1/2 cup vegetable oil
Using the scoop portion out cookie dough balls and space them 2 inches apart on the ungreased baking sheet. If you don't have a scoop use a spoon to form the dough into 1-inch balls and place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
Bake for 10 minutes or until the edges are just turning golden brown.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes before removing from the baking sheet. Place on a wire rack and cool completely.
Notes
You can change the flavor of the cookie by changing the flavor of cake mix. Use your favorite cake mix to make cake mix cookies. For example:Lemon cake mix will make lemon cookiesStrawberry cake mix will make strawberry cookiesChocolate cake mix will make chocolate cookiesTry turning your favorite cake mix into cookies!
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