Easy Cake Mix Cookies
Cake Mix Cookies are an easy cookie recipe baked in 11 minutes and with just 4 ingredients. Top with candies, sprinkles, or chocolate chips!
Servings: 15
Calories: 167kcal
Ingredients
- 15.25 box vanilla cake mix
- ½ cup melted butter or swap in ½ cup oil (Canola Oil, or Vegetable Oil)
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup M&Ms
- Optional Mix Ins chocolate chips, sprinkles, coconut, nuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the boxed mix, melted butter, and eggs. Mix well to combine with a wooden spoon or spatula. The dough will be very sticky!
- Scoop using a 2” cookie scoop onto baking sheet, or use 2 tablespoons roll into balls and drop.
- Bake for 11-12 minutes, remove from oven, and press in M&Ms into each cookie, and let cool on counter. You can mix the M&Ms into the cookie dough, I wanted them on top and to not be melted and stay pretty!
- Cookies are good up to a couple days, store in an airtight container.
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Notes
Mix-In Ideas
I pressed the m&ms into the cookies right out of the oven. You an mix them in with the cookie dough, I was attempting to keep them from melting. They will crack a tiny bit, and they look so pretty on top of each cookie!- milk chocolate chips
- white chocolate chips
- add food color drops to cookie dough
- sprinkles and sparkling sugar
- butterscotch, heath or mint chocolate
- dark or milk chocolate pieces
- nuts favorite
- chopped up mini candy bars
- crushed peppermint candy canes
- peanut butter chips
- mini marshmallows
- Hershey kisses different flavors
- sweetened coconut
- dried fruit-pineapple, cranberries, blueberries
Nutrition
Serving: 2g | Calories: 167kcal | Carbohydrates: 23g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 24mg | Sodium: 381mg | Potassium: 55mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 49IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 63mg | Iron: 1mg