I made you a cookie!

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:

1. Preheat oven to 350°
   
2. 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)
   
3. Empty contents of cake mix into your wet ingredients. Stir until all the cake mix is incorporated.
   
4. Add nuts and/or chips
   
5. Grease / cookie-proof your bake sheet
   
6. Drop cookies mix by rounded spoonful onto sheet.
   
7. 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!