Cake Mix Butter Cookies

Gooey yellow cake mix butter cookies taste like butter cake but faster to bake and cheaper. Chewy and tender covered with powdered sugar unlike our Cake Mix Cookies with Cream Cheese. Just 4 ingredients you’ll want to bake this dessert with your kids now.

Gooey Butter Cookies with Cake Mix

We’re here with yet another cake mix hack!! I know you have tried a few of them already but we just can’t stop. 😉 What is different about these than other varieties we have on our site? It tastes just like butter cake I had at a restaurant near our house back in the day. I mean they had decent food but I went for a slice of this!!

Super dense, savory buttery but sweet just what you want after dinner. Seriously y’all it was beyond amazing. Better than pound cake but I guess if I had to compare it to something it would be that. And like any of our other Cookies Made With Cake Mix use whatever flavor you like. White or yellow will really let the other ingredients shine though.

These Yellow Cake Mix Cookies are even more fun rolled in powdered sugar after they’re prepped. It is not a necessity and you can skip that step all together if you are in a real hurry but you get this pretty crackled look on the top if you do. As with any other cookie dough it is easier to handle and won’t spread so flat if you refrigerate it for a bit too.

Yellow Cake Mix Cookies with Butter Ingredients

• 1 box cake mix yellow
• Butter salted, softened not melted butter
  • for dairy free you can use a vegan plant based stick instead, I’ve found lactose free cream cheese too
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 block of cream cheese room temperature
• 1 large egg

And you will need 1/2 c powdered sugar to roll the dough in if you want to make them look like our cake mix crinkle cookies.

with Cool Whip

You do need something thick and creamy to make these with boxed mixes. We used butter here as you see but you can use other things like Cake Mix Cool Whip Cookies that use that tub. 😉 Just use a large bowl to mix the dough and a shallow dish for the sugar at the end so you can roll it around to coat well.

with Chocolate Cake Mix

If you did want to use chocolate cake mix or Devil’s food mix they will be incredible too, any flavor will work with this recipe below. I really think if you want to emulate that cake you may have tried too then just stick with yellow and salted Darigold (the best of the best).

with Red Velvet

Once you fall in love with these try our red velvet cake mix cookies too. Perfect during the holidays if you don’t want to mess with food coloring, that one comes in the right shade already. Now jump to recipe below and let us know what you think!

Dairy Free

You can use a vegan alternative from Country Crock or there is no butter in our 3 Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies. There are tons of options depending on the ingredients you have on hand.

How to Make Butter Cookies with Cake Mix

• Mix butter, vanilla, egg and cream cheese and mix with an electric mixer on medium low until the batter is smooth and fluffy.
• Next, add the cake mix and stir until fully incorporated and no dry ingredients are left.
  • Cover with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes Using your hands, grab a small bit of dough and roll into ping pong size balls.
• Now place the balls into a bowl of powdered sugar and roll them around to coat. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper 2” apart
  • for wider cookies, gently press down on the tops to slightly flatten.
• Place cookies into a preheated oven and bake at 350 F for 9-11 minutes until the edges are lightly brown and cracking.
• Cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before moving to a wire rack to finish cooling. Sprinkle with extra powdered sugar if desired!

How to prevent cookies from going flat?

Ever baked goodies and they spread out and just looked sad instead of raised like the ones you see here or at a bakery? That is because the dough wasn’t firm enough and just kinda’ melted on the tray. Even just 30 minutes in the fridge will make a big difference in the look and texture of your batch, it’s worth your time.

If you want them to resemble bite sized copycat Sara Lee Pound Cake bites you could make a simple glaze with powdered sugar with milk and drizzle that over the top.

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