Cake Mix Cookies made with just 5 ingredients in one bowl are ultra rich, chocolatey, and bakery soft EASY cookies in under 20 minutes!
Just like our original Cake Mix Cookies we made yesterday these Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies are an amazing cookie hack recipe! You should also try our crazy popular Cake Mix Hack for a bakery style cake made from a cake mix.
CHOCOLATE CAKE MIX COOKIES
These Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies take yesterday’s cookies up just two little extra notches. We add 1/3 cup of cocoa powder and 1/2 cup of mini chocolate chips to the recipe to give them EVEN MORE chocolate flavor. We still have all the extra benefits of cake mix cookies. Just one bowl, just oil instead of butter, same delicious amazing bakery style cookies as a result.
The kids who got to enjoy these cookies declared them the “best super chocolatey cookies they’d ever had.” You can’t argue with that review. In fact you could even get your kids to help make them given how incredibly easy this recipe is!
HOW TO MAKE CAKE MIX COOKIES SOFT?
- Keep the stirring to a minimum. Mixing too much will cause the gluten to over-activate and make tough cookies.
- Make sure your oven is at the right temperature, if it is too high they’ll overcook.
- If your cookie sheet is too thin it may burn the bottoms. I like to use a silicone baking sheet to protect the bottoms of my cookies.
HOW TO MAKE CAKE MIX COOKIES WITHOUT OIL
You can substitute mashed bananas or applesauce but as I mentioned in the classic Cake Mix Cookies recipe please know the cookies will not have the same amount of moisture or texture if you choose to make this substitution. When you remove oil you are removing flavor and texture from what you are baking.
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TRY ADDING THESE MIX-INS TO YOUR CAKE MIX COOKIES
- MORE Chocolate: Make these even more fun by adding in a rainbow of chocolate chips, white, milk, dark.
- Chopped up candy bars or peppermint candies
- toffee chips, peanut butter chips or butterscotch chips
- Nuts: chopped peanuts, pecans, walnuts or almonds
MORE DESSERT COOKIE RECIPES
- Oatmeal Cookies
- Black and White Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
- Oatmeal Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookies
TIPS FOR MAKING CAKE MIX COOKIES
- You can make these cookies with any cake mix that you have. Try carrot cake mix, strawberry cake mix, red velvet cake mix, or chocolate cake mix to change up the recipe!
- Try flavored extracts. The cake has plenty of flavor but we experimented by adding 1/2 teaspoon of root beer extract once and the kids loved it!
- Lining baking sheets with parchment paper makes sure nothing will stick and can make cleanup much easier!
- Make your cookies even bigger using a 1/4 cup scoop and bake at a lower temperature (325 degrees) until they set in the middle and make ice cream sandwiches out of them.
Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs
- 15.25 ounce chocolate cake mix
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and in a large bowl whisk the cake mix, eggs, cocoa powder, chocolate chips and oil together.
Make two tablespoon sized balls of dough and bake them for 8-10 minutes on ungreased cookie sheets.
Very easy w/ 5 ingredients. Very hard to whisk but carefully used wooden spoon. Didnt look like picture but so delicious. Used white, milk+dark chips. Thanks!
Hi Sabrina, These cookies look delicious, so I saved the recipe and printed it, and pinned it to many of my boards. Thanks Sabrina keep them coming!
You’re welcome, happy that they are going to join your collection! Enjoy!
Mine did not puddle out like your picture. I double checked the recipe to make sure I used the correct size cake mix and ingredients. They stayed in balls and crumbled when eating them. I guess I’ll crumble them over ice cream. I will not make these again. Sorry.
Oh no! Not sure why that would happen especially if everything was followed. Glad you still enjoyed them over ice cream.
What about the cocoa and choc chips?
Thanks for catching that! Must drink more coffee before editing, haha.
I made the classic cake mix cookies and 2 T scoops resulted in only 12 cookies.
Will the same thing happen with this recipe.
I measured the scoop and it was 2 T exactly
Cookies were great
These look awesome. Will be making soon. Can you say what brand cake mix is used. Can’t wait to make.
I used a Betty Crocker mix. I hope you enjoy them!
What a smart idea and shortcut! These look so moist and delicious!
Thanks, Marisa.
These cookies look amazing, and I love that they are so simple! They would be perfect to bake up and bring to a party!
Definitely a party favorite!
Pinned to make when the grands come in a couple of weeks!
Thanks for the pin!
These cookies look fantastic. And they are easy to make. I must give this a try. This will save me a lot of time when making cookies since my boys devour the whole bunch so fast.
We could all use a little help in the kitchen every once in a while, right?!
My chocolate-loving kids enjoyed these! They finished a whole batch in minutes!
I’m impressed! So glad they all loved them.