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This is a fast and tasty recipe for cookies that requires minimal ingredients and minimal time! It’s perfect for those “cookie emergencies” when you are expected to bring something to an office party, cookout, potluck etc and realize all too late that you don’t have anything in the house. It’s also great for when you have that urge to make something homemade but don’t have all the ingredients you would need to make traditional cookies.

Basically, you need three ingredients: A cake mix (any flavor or brand will do), two eggs (or half a cup of egg substitute in the carton) and 1/3 cup oil (vegetable, canola…etc).

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Pour the dry cake mix into a large bowl, mix in the eggs and oil and stir until well blended and until you don’t see any dry mix lumps in the batter. Spoon onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 7-9 minutes or until lightly browned if desired.

For best results: If you want round, cookie-shaped cookies (instead of little mounds), lightly press on the batter with damp fingers or a piece of wax paper to create a rounded, flatter shape. These cookies don’t spread out like a lighter batter, so they pretty much bake in the shape you make them on the cookie sheet.

These cookies are very cake-like and moist and can fall apart easily if you try to remove them from the cookie sheet too early. I’d use two sheets and let one sheet of cookies cool slightly while you prepare more cookies on another sheet.

What’s so great about these cookies is that you can make them in any flavor of cake mix you like! Instead of buying (and storing!) all of the ingredients for traditional cookies (flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, etc) you can just open up a cake mix and have at it! Lemon cookies, white cookies, chocolate, confetti cookies, red velvet…any cake mix works with this recipe.

You can also jazz up the cookies by mixing in nuts, chocolate chips, raisins or anything else that complements your cake mix flavor. I’d be surprised if people could tell you made your cookies from a cake mix then!

I like to buy cake mixes when they are on sale and when I have coupons so that I have a nice supply ready for any cookie emergency. I’ve been able to purchase cake mixes for less than 50 cents when the sales and coupons are right and they last for up to a year on the shelf. I also buy the egg substitute in the carton because you can leave it unopened in the fridge for at least two months or more and even freeze it when you’ve stocked up on it.

For a quick and easy treat, cake mix cookies are a great choice! Shhh…no one has to know your secret!

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