Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
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These easy-peasy Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies are soft, chewy, and a little fudgy. The recipe only requires 4 ingredients, so it’s the perfect easy chocolate cookie recipe for whenever the craving hits. 
I’ve made a lot of chocolate cookies in my day, but I don’t think you can ever have enough chocolate. So today I’m sharing the easiest recipe ever – chocolate cake mix cookies. They turn out perfectly fudgy and super soft, and even if you’re a little apprehensive about baking, you can easily make these cookies.
How to Make Chocolate Cookies from Cake Mix
You only need 4 ingredients to make these cookies:
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- 1 box of chocolate cake mix – Devil’s food cake or chocolate fudge work perfectly
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips – you can use semi-sweet, white chocolate, dark chocolate, or really whatever you prefer
Some recipes for cake mix cookies use oil – but I found that cake mix cookies with butter have a chewier, more cookie-like, and less cake-like texture. If you only have oil on hand, you can use 1/3 cup oil instead of 1/3 cup butter.
First, you’ll beat the butter, eggs and cake mix. Then mix in the chocolate chips. Form the dough into balls, place 2 inches apart on a lined cookie sheet, and bake.
The dough is definitely sticky, so I absolutely recommend using a cookie scoop. If you don’t have one, then lightly grease a tablespoon and your palms to reduce sticking.
If your box of cake mix is 15oz (which is what I used), you’ll need 1/3 cup of butter. But if it’s an 18oz box, I recommend using 1/2 cup butter instead. Feel free you use your favorite brand of cake mix – I’ve made these chocolate cake mix cookies with Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker, and supermarket brands with great results.
I definitely have a soft spot for my favorite double chocolate cookies from scratch, but these cake mix chocolate cookies are definitely some stiff competition. They’re everything you could want in a cookie:
- fudgy
- soft
- chewy
- even a little gooey
- super easy to make
- and filled with chocolate
Love cake mix recipes? Try these other favorites: Lemon Cake Mix Cookies, Homemade Fudgee-O Cookies, or Strawberry Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter,, melted
- 2 large eggs
- 1 15oz box chocolate cake mix*
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips,, plus more for dotting the tops with
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F degrees and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper or baking mats.
- In a large bowl using beat together the butter, eggs and chocolate cake mix.
- Mix in the chocolate chips.
- Using a cookie scoop* spoon the dough into balls about 1-1.5 tablespoons in size and place 2 inches apart on the cookie sheets.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the tops look set. Optionally, place a few chocolate chips on top of each cookie.
These are gone before they cool! Like soft batch cookies. So much better than any other cake mix cookie Iâve tried!
We are on our second batch of these cookies. We found them a bit bland, so we kicked it up a notch by adding addind shredded coconut, chooped walnuts, a pinch of salt, and a dash of coconut extract. OMG!!! So, so good.
Forgot another modification. We substituted coconut oil for the butter.
So glad you enjoyed the cookies – and thanks for letting me know about the coconut oil substitution!
I was a little worried at first when I was making these cookies. The dough was tough but also very sticky and a little stretchy, almost gummy. It was very difficult to work with. And then baking them, after ten minutes they were still completely raw in the middle. I had to bake them for about 12 minutes to get them to set up. But the results don’t lie. They were perfect. So soft, yet chewy, a little fudgy and they tasted like the perfect combination of cake and cookie. 5 stars. Any trouble I had making them was 100% worth it.
I have made these several times with chocolate chips and they are wonderfully delicious. Today I made them with Andes mint chocolate baking chips. OMG!! If you like mint and chocolate these are to die for.
These cookie are INSANE! I made them for my friends graduation party and everyone loved them, even after the whole day passed they were still soft and chewy, theyâre so so good
Thanks so much Chloe – I hope you guys had a great party
I made your recipe but didn’t put the chocolate chips in, baked them, let them cool, then flipped them over and frosted them with vanilla frosting and put them in the fridge for the frosting to harden a bit, and they are delicious! So yummy!
I made these today and they are good.
Better than I expected, I added a little over
1/3 cup melted butter.. accidentally. But
they still baked very nicely. I added some
semi-sweet chocolate chips. My teenage
son says they’re good. I will make them
again.
I sprinkled a little pink sea salt on top!
Hi Recipe looks amazing and I am plaI can make the dough in advance an leave it in the fridge for 1-2 days or freeze the dough balls and make them a couple at a time.
Only thing that I would add is that I leave the cookies on cookie sheet for about 1 to 2 minutes to cool before I remove them. But definitely the best cookies ever
Thank you for sharing such easy and delicious cookie recipe! I’m glad I found your blog too :))