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.
They taste great but mine did not spread out like
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Made with peppermint butter cream! Whoopie pie heaven!
These chocolate are excellent cookies I’ve made them several times. I also put a maraschino cherry on top right after I take them out of the oven. Then I make fudge frosting and cover the top.Absolutely the best ever. Been making these since I saw the recipe on the Duncan Hines cake m8x box. It didn’t have the cherry and fudge frosting listed w/the recipe on the box. My idea
Ooo – that sound delicious with the cherry and fudge frosting!
Salted or unsalted butter?
I use unsalted – but salted would be fine
Ty!
Amazing! Made it dairy free and everyone loved them!
Glad to hear they worked out dairy free!
Easy and delish!
These turned our fantastic! They looked like something fresh from a bakery display.
I love it when that happens! So glad they were a hit
These are easy & delicious
These cookies were fantastic thank you for sharing the recipes
Easy to make and very brownie-like.
I used coconut oil! I also made a chocolate butter cream frosting.
They were amazing!!!đĽ°
Thanks for the suggestion of coconut oil. Just used it and it worked great!
Glad they turned out!
Very good cookies fudge and delicious
However the cookies did not spread out as they cooked they were little. What did I do wrong?