Easy – Affordable – Delicious!
I made mini muffins a few times as an after school snack for my kids and now they ask if there is a “surprise snack” everyday when I pick them up. I try to find something fun to surprise them with a couple of times a week. This doesn’t always include baked goods, but they like to come home to a sweet surprise every once in awhile.
I headed to the store on Monday for my usual shopping trip and decided to surprise the kids with a super easy, 2 ingredient, cake mix cookie. These cookies are a delicious treat and even make for a yummy, egg-free cookie dough! (You can use a yellow cake mix and a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice in a pinch, but I prefer the spice cake mix.)
Pumpkin Spice Cake Cookies
Ingredients
1 box Spice Cake Mix
1 14 oz can of Pumpkin (not pumpkin pie)
Cream Cheese Frosting (optional)
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix cake mix and can of pumpkin in a medium bowl.
Combine until well incorporated and no dry mix is showing.
Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls on cookie sheet. I prefer to line mine with parchment paper.
Cookies will not flatten much during cooking, so push them down for a prettier cookie.
Cook for 10 to 12 minutes until they begin to slightly brown around the edges like traditional cookies.
Let cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes, then move to wire rack.
Top with cream cheese frosting, if desired, and enjoy!
While I was in the baking aisle, I decided to grab a few other cake mixes for $1. I already knew yellow cake mix combined with chocolate chips makes a delicious cookie and wanted to see what confetti cake mix would taste like. We’re having confetti cookies this afternoon, by the way, and they taste like sugar cookies with sprinkles! I am tempted to try an egg-less version of these with applesauce, but will need to find the right measurements. Has anyone tried applesauce in their cake mix cookies?
3 Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies
Ingredients
1 box Cake Mix (flavor of choice)
1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
2 Eggs
Optional – Add in chocolate chips or nuts of your choice.
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix cake mix, oil, and eggs in a medium bowl.
Combine until well incorporated and no dry mix is showing.
Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls on cookie sheet. I prefer to line mine with parchment paper.
Cookies will not flatten much during cooking, so push them down for a prettier cookie.
Cook for 9 to 12 minutes until they begin to slightly brown around the edges like traditional cookies.
Let cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes, then move to wire rack.
Enjoy!
Have you tried cake mix cookies? What are your favorite variations?
I have been making these since Christmas. I saw them on Pinterest. We make all kinds with different chips or flavors. I like the Vanilla box with mint chocolate chips.
These look so good and so easy. I am going to pin this for when I have the ingedients.
Love quick and easy recipes. Pumpkin is so good for you too. Pinned it.
I’ve never tried cake mix cookies before but will be trying them this week, they sound so good!
This looks like a perfect fall cookie recipe.
We’ve done the pumpkin spice cookies, definitely gonna have to do them again soon!
I’ve never made cake mix cookies before but I love pumpkin so I’ll have to give these a try!