Busy Week Cake Mix Cookies
Hey friends! I hope you’ve been enjoying the Christmas season. I have been spending lots of time with my family, so not as much with Southern Plate. I know y’all are busy with family as well and neither one of us would have it any other way! Still, I am looking forward to slowing down and connecting with y’all more once the holidays are over.
We just got back from a little trip to one of our favorite places, Disney World. We always enjoy our time together, but seem to find even more magic as a family in one of our favorite places. It’s been very special to us to take our kids throughout the years and this trip was even more special because we’ve been taking Brady since he was 2 years old – and now he is a young man. At 17, Brady is a fine young man and we couldn’t ask for a better kid. At one point, we were having Katy’s photo made with Mickey Mouse and Brady stood up and said “Ahh, for old time’s sake…”, then proceeded to shake Mickey’s hand, give him a hug, and pose for a photo. I instantly felt myself tear up, remembering him as a little boy in a stroller telling me that he just wanted to go see Mickey Mouse rather than ride any rides, and as I looked over and saw Ricky tear up as well, I went full on ugly cry. What a precious gift it has been to get to be his Mama over these years! We are so very blessed and it is so important to open our eyes and be ever mindful of our blessings.
Today I’m sharing some of my favorite cookies when I want to make up a treat but am limited on time (and don’t want the mess). There are endless variations and we each have a favorite. Brady loves the chocolate chocolate chip, Katy the red velvet, and Ricky and I are very partial to the strawberry. If you came to one of my book signings for my latest book, Sweetness, and had a cookie (or two), it was this recipe.
These would be an easy addition to your cookie trays, and yet another blessing to others, this Christmas! Of course, Sweetness would also be a great gift. It’s a book of memories, love, blessings, and recipes written in honor of and dedicated to my grandparents. Click here to see it on Amazon and purchase it for around $10.
Ingredients
- 1 box 15 to 18 ounces cake mix (see variations for flavors)
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine the cake mix, eggs, and oil in a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer at medium speed until well blended, about 2 minutes.
- Form the dough into balls a little smaller than a golf ball size and place them 2 inches apart on 2 ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake until very lightly browned at the edges, 10 to 12 minutes. Allow to cool completely before removing from the baking sheets.
Notes
Nutrition
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
~Burton Hillis
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We make these as Whoppie Pies. Don’t add in chipits or roll in sugar just put on the cookie sheet and bake. Once done, hold the cookie sheet flat and thunk it on a cutting board or the cupboard top. This causes the cookies to flatten. Once completely cool, spread your favourite cream cheese icing and put 2 cookies together as a sandwich. Any flavour can be used, Delicious
Well Mercy! That sounds about ten steps past brilliant and I’m ready to try it!
I love this!!!! 🙂 Merry Christmas Christy! Tracie
I hope you had a Merry Christmas Tracie!!
I got this recipe in the 1980’s somewhere. The recipe was called big fat cookies.
LOL, love that name!!!
Have you tried adding ricotta cheese? A friend makes them and they are delicious. She uses a yellow cake mix, a 16 ounce container of part-skim milk ricotta, 1 egg, 1 tsp of lemon flavoring. Mix, drop by rounded teaspoonfuls, and bake at 350 degrees 10-12 minutes. When they are cooled, she glazes them with a light lemon glaze and tops them with a walnut half. She brought them to a Christmas potluck, and they vanished almost before she opened the box.
I loved this post! They don’t stay little for long, do they? Those cookies look so good!
I “ugly” cried too. Your little family is just as blessed to have you as you are to have them. So glad you had a great time and made it home safely. I have lemon and spice cake mixes and want to make me some cookies soon.
I have enjoyed helping you out this year and hope to continue that next year and the coming years. Thank you Christy for being my friend and for the fun times. Love you!