Cream Cheese Cake Mix Soft Cookies Recipe

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Wait, you can make cookies from cake mix? This changes everything! Chocolate, carrot, butterscotch... get creative and try out different cake mixes with this quick and easy recipe. Hard to go wrong!

serves/makes:

ready in:

1-2 hrs

11 reviews

ingredients

1/4 cup butter or stick margarine, softened
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
4 tablespoons milk (whole or 2%, not skim)
1 box (15-17 ounce size) cake mix, any flavor

directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Cream butter and cream cheese. Blend in egg and vanilla. Add cake mix, 1/3 at a time. Hint: put mixer on low for this phase so the cake mix doesn't blow all over. Mix well after each addition. Add milk slowly to avoid splattering.

Cover and chill 30 to 60 minutes. This is a key step. Drop by teaspoons (or tablespoons if you want larger cookies) onto a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until cookie bounces back when touched.

Cool 3 to 5 minutes before removing cookies to a cooling rack. Ice with your favorite frosting.

cook's notes

I love this recipe. It is no-fail and makes the best soft cookies. Quick and easy.

Soften butter and cream cheese at room temperature for an hour prior to mixing up this recipe.

Use any flavor of cake mix that you want. Be creative adding nuts, raisins, chocolate chips, and other goodies! Try yellow cake with cream cheese frosting or add chocolate chips to chocolate cake mix.

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barickmn

nutrition data for cream cheese cake mix soft cookies

118 calories, 7 grams fat, 12 grams carbohydrates, 2 grams protein per serving.

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reviews & comments for cream cheese cake mix soft cookies

Teach020 REVIEW:
September 2, 2020

To a chocolate fudge cake mix, my modifications......I only use butter...I substituted half & half for milk...added chocolate chips ...rolled cookie in powder sugar before baking...used purple colored coded scoop...baked 10 minutesDO NOT SKIP CHILLING
not impressed REVIEW:
August 22, 2017

taste like cake mix, and they looked like blobs..forget the cookie and just enjoy the cake mix and use the cream cheese for frosting...not a good recipe
- CDKitchen Staff Reply:
  
  Maybe try a different brand of cake mix? If you used a grocery store or generic brand, that could be why.
Rbou2u REVIEW:
December 4, 2015

I'm not the one who made these, a co-worker brought them to work and they were fantastic and we insisted she share her recipe. She did make one slight variation to the recipe as written, she only had skim milk so she used egg nog instead. There was no taste of the egg nog at all... only the creamy cheese flavor. I think I'll try it just like she did and top it with german chocolate frosting then drizzle with chocolate.
Yum! REVIEW:
April 6, 2013

Just made cookies with yellow cake mix and butterscotch chips. Soft and yummy!
Guest Foodie REVIEW:
March 20, 2013

My kids love these cookies. SO SOFT!
Diann REVIEW:
February 15, 2013

Made this with a red velvet cake mix and it was incredible! One note, cake mix sizes have changed but I still got this to work ok by adding a little extra flour.
Jan REVIEW:
November 27, 2012

Good soft cookies.
Guest Foodie REVIEW:
July 20, 2012

My favorite cookie recipe! Regarding the different cake sizes now, I bought two boxes of mix and just weighed to get the amount needed. There are lots of things you can use the leftover mix for (or save it to make more cookies next time!)
sweetestmatthew REVIEW:
June 4, 2012

So easy and really good cookies. I'm wondering if you can chill this for longer though? Like overnight?
Chris REVIEW:
January 25, 2012

Try changing up the flavorings depending on what cake mix you use. This recipe has so much flexibility. The cream cheese is key in making the soft cookies but you can vary the flavorings and cake mix and add ins. And yeah, it's totally fool proof (even this baking fool can't screw them up)
CookieMonster REVIEW:
October 7, 2011

Made this with chocolate cake mix and chocolate chips. Incredible! Going to try other flavors next.

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