Cake Mix Cookies
These cake mix cookies are the easiest cookies you will ever make! With only four ingredients and no chilling, these cookies are ready in 20 minutes flat!
If you haven’t noticed, I seriously love baking. There’s something so therapeutic for me when it comes to baking. If I’ve had a really bad day, I’ll come home and bake away in the kitchen for a few hours. While it can be a good way to relieve some stress, I quickly snap back to reality when I see the mess I’ve made in my kitchen.
Sometimes I want to bake something, but not have to deal with the cleanup afterward. This is one of the many reasons I love this cake mix cookie recipe. They’re super easy to make and you only need one bowl to mix them up. No crazy amount of dirty dishes, no major cleanup, just five minutes of your time, and then pop them in the oven for another 10 minutes. Seriously, I can’t say enough good things about these cookies made with cake mix!
I’ve brought these cookies to parties a few times and they always get rave reviews. Oh, and they taste like cake batter and are perfectly soft. Have I convinced you to go make these cookies yet?
Recipe Ingredients
These cake mix cookies couldn’t be simpler to make! Here’s everything we’ll need for this recipe:
- Boxed cake mix: I used a box of Duncan Hines French Vanilla cake mix for this recipe, but feel free to use any flavor that you prefer!
- Oil: Use a neutral oil, like vegetable or canola.
- Eggs: Need to be room temperature before being mixed into the dough.
- Sprinkles: Optional, but highly recommended.
How to Make Cookies From Cake Mix
All you need for these cake mix cookies is a box of cake mix, two eggs, a little oil, and whatever add-ins you prefer. Easy peasy, right?! Mix together all the ingredients to form the cookie dough.
Once you mix the dough up, just scoop it into balls, and bake the cookies in the oven. No chill time required and you can be eating cookies in less than 20 minutes.
Can I Use Another Kind of Cake Mix?
Yes! Use any cake mix you’d like for this recipe. I used a vanilla cake mix, but this recipe can also be used to make yellow cake mix cookies, chocolate cake mix cookies, and so forth.
Baking Tips
- Add the boxed cake mix like you would any dry ingredient. Do NOT add the extra ingredients called for on the side of the box.
- Wait to add the sprinkles to the cookie dough until the rest of the dough comes together, otherwise you’ll wind up with discolored cookies.
- I formed these cake cookies with about 2 tablespoons of dough per cookie.
More Easy Cookie Recipes to Try!
- Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Soft & Chewy Monster Cookies
- Classic Sugar Cookies
- Brownie Cookies
- Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies
Cake Mix Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 (16.25 oz.) box cake mix
- 1/3 cup oil
- 2 eggs
- 3 tablespoons sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a large baking sheet with cooking spray or line with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, oil, and eggs. Once combined, mix in the sprinkles.
- Drop rounded balls of dough onto the prepared cookie sheet, about two tablespoons for each cookie.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the cookie sheet for 10 minutes. Transfer to wire rack to finish cooling.
I think your first photo convinced me. 😀 These cookies look fabulous, Danielle! I’m liking the fact that they don’t require any cookies and I LOVE the fun sprinkles inside! 🙂
Whoops! Fingers slipped. *CHILLING* 😉
Thanks, Sarah! The sprinkles really are the best part 😉
Hey I was wondering could I use the angel food cake confetti cake mix for these?
I’m not sure, I’ve used just about any kind of cake mix but not an angel food mix. I’m thinking they may turn out a bit different with it though.
Baking is so therapeutic for me, too. I love being in the kitchen and just doing my own thing. My husband always offers to help, though I know he secretly doesn’t want to…which is fine because it’s my time! 🙂 Cake mix cookies are the best! Definitely a great treat to whip up when you want something fast and easy. These look delicious, Danielle!
Baking is definitely the best therapy. Thanks, Gayle!
These look solo good! I like cake batter anything! I could not be trusted to eat just one! 🙂
I can’t be trusted around these cookies either, they disappear quick ha!
These cookies look so so beautiful and colourful !! Love it!! 😀
mmmm yum! these look amazing!
I love how easy this cookie recipe is! And that it’s only 1 bowl. Less clean up, the more I enjoy baking. What is it about flour that makes it spread out and cover every surface and cabinet in the kitchen? Love that you picked funfetti cake mix, that’s my favorite : )
Flour is like a magnet to anything in the kitchen, it’s crazy! Funfetti is my favorite too 🙂
I’m about to make carrot cake and red velvet with cream cheese icing!
Hope you enjoyed the cookies, Tara!
Baking is also therapeutic to me as well. It’s my stress relief and the thing that can make me smile and turn around my day, no matter what! 🙂 Love these cookies! I have made similar cookies called “cool whip cookies” where you use a box of cake mix and a tub of cool whip to bake them. Oh, and you got me with the sprinkles. Gotta have sprinkles!
I’ve heard of the cool whip cookies before, I need to try those out. And yes, always sprinkles!
You’ve convinced me!! I love this recipe, so easy and they sound soo yummy! Pinning 🙂
Cake mix cookies are awesome. The best of both worlds, cookie and cake in one. Your pictures make want to reach through the screen and grab one. 🙂
I love all things cake batter! This recipe looks so awesome and so quick and easy!
Your kitchen sounds a lot like my kitchen. 🙂 Baking is definitely relaxing for me…until it’s time to do the dishes! I love having recipes like this in my back pocket for when I need cookies in a hurry OR don’t feel like digging through every cabinet we have. Love it, pinning!
I definitely agree, sometimes recipes like this are the best! Thanks for pinning, Alyssa!
Never would have thought to make cookies out of cake mix before.. bet they tasted so soft, moist and delicious! Loving all the sprinkle action going on too.. craving a bite of one right now!
Yum! Those cookies look so soft and chewy. I love how quick and easy they are 🙂
YUM! You are so right about the ‘easy cleanup’ bit! I’m ALL about that! …and before I went gluten free I used to make cake box cookies! (I should do it with gluten free cake mix!!)… anyways… they were always SO tasty! I remember one time a friend and I made em and we ended up eating so much dough!! hahah… not my healthiest moment… :/ haha! But these look delicious! Great recipe!
I am a sucker for cake batter anything and I love how easy these cookies are to whip up. They look so pretty and cute with the sprinkles – you totally have me convinced – soft cookies are my favorite 🙂 Pinning 🙂
I love the idea of a one bowl recipe! As much as I love cooking, I despise doing dishes and they seem to be constantly building up! Moist cookies are my favorites and I bet these ones are so moist and delicious since you used a cake mix! They are also so pretty 🙂
Haha, I’ve had a few times when baking that I step back and see lots of open doors and draws. I like to tell my husband, ” a messy cook is a good cook.” 😀 These cookies look delicious! I know my guys would love these.
The cleanup is the worst!! I do it multiple times a day sometimes and it’s maddening. 🙂
Cake mix cookies are always a favorite of mine. No creaming butter, only one bowl…and they taste great! These look so pretty, Danielle!
I am wondering if (in order to add flavors) you could add in a box of flavored jello or pudding… i.e. a box of strawberry jello….
I haven’t tried it before, so I’m not quite sure. You can use different flavors of cake mixes with this recipe though.
Worked perfectly!! And I appreciated your note about cake mix size, because not all are the same!
Glad you liked the cookies, Lisa!
I found these while looking for something to take to a 4th of July party so I dug around in the cabinets and found some blue and white snow flake sprinkles and had some red left over sprinkles and boom! They look awesome! Thank you so much!
How fun! So glad you liked the cookies!
Can I use canola oil?
That would be fine!
Could I use chocolate chips instead of sprinkles?
Yes, absolutely! You can use 1 cup of chocolate chips.
LOVE THIS! I’ve made cake cookies before but this is by the easiest recipe I’ve ever used! I HAD to share it with my followers and link them all back to you because this is amazing and the world needs to know!!!
Thank you, Lauren! I’m so glad you liked the cookies!
These are absolutely amazing!! And so easy!! Use a white cake mix add a little green food coloring and crushed peppermints and you have what I call Grinch cookies perfect for Christmas!!
That sounds so cute, Ashleigh! Glad you liked the cookies!
I used white cake mix and butter instead of oil turned out giant and delicious
Glad you liked the cookies, Izzy!
First time making these. Easy, fast and no mess. They were delicious, soft and moist. I used a generic yellow cake mix with the sprinkles. I got a lot of two thumbs up on making these again and requests for the recipe. I’m going to try chocolate next time. Saw someone wrote about cool whip cookies. I’ve never heard of those, going to search for a recipe and give them a try too.
Thank you for sharing your recipe. This ones a keeper for sure!
So glad you liked the cookies!
Hi! Any tips for high altitude baking? Recently moved to 7000ft and I’m struggling to get the cookies to lift. They just sort of go flat
I don’t have any experience with high altitude baking, but some readers have found this guide helpful: https://www.kingarthurflour.com/learn/high-altitude-baking.html.
What type of oil? Does it have to be vegetable or can you use canola?
Canola or vegetable oil work well! You can use melted coconut oil too, just make sure your eggs are at room temperature first if you do.
With this recipe do you need to add water or milk
No, not for this recipe.