I know - I haven't been around for AGES. Will it make you feel better if I tell you how to turn cake mix into cookies?
What you need:
- 1 box of cake mix (any flavour you'd like)
- ½ cup of fat – this can be any kind of oil, slightly melted butter or margarine
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp of vanilla extract
- Chocolate chips and/or nuts (optional)
How to make your cake into a cookie:
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Put your oil/butter into a bowl. Add eggs and whip together. Add vanilla, whip one last time (I used an electric blender, but it's not necessary)
- Empty contents of cake mix into your wet ingredients. Stir until all the cake mix is incorporated.
- Add nuts and/or chips
- Grease / cookie-proof your bake sheet
- Drop cookies mix by rounded spoonful onto sheet.
- Bake for 10 – 14 min – or until cookies are a light golden brown. Do not over bake, they'll get really hard and crumbly.
Cake mixes make great impromptu cookies. Most grocery stores run killer sales on mixes (I got 5 for $5) so they're an affordable thing to keep on hand so that you could whip up tasty treats on short notice, or on a hunger whim. This trick is also a good project for kids and there are a lot of ways you can have fun and mix it up:
Instead of butter or oil for fat try ½ c of:
- Applesauce
- Purred banana
- Pureed pumpkin
Try adding seasonal spices to your mix like pumpkin pie spice
Add some dried fruit or oatmeal to your cookies for a yummy trail mix treat,
Get creative and have fun!
