Peanut Butter Cookies Made With Cake Mix

I love making peanut butter cookies made with cake mix. They are quick and super yummy! Just throw in 3 ingredients, spoon on to your tray and you’re ready. Make cake mix cookies sandwiches, frost or enjoy as is! Choose any flavor but peanut butter is our favorite.

Recipe for Cookies Made with Cake Mix

What you need for the most basic dessert you can see here. This is our favorite add in of choice. You could go way beyond that though if you wanted more of a loaded version. Below is the base if you will. Chocolate chips of course would be a great choice, crushed nuts or M&Ms maybe.

They don’t take long to bake either. Compared to cookie bars with cake mix you’re talking about 1/3 of the time which is nice if you have kiddos. I like both though, a great way to tweak a boxed mix into something totally different.

Yellow Cake Mix Cookie Recipe

Ok so they come out as peanut butter cookies but don’t start out that way at all. White and yellow have a very basic flavor to it so I’d recommend those two. Then whatever you add really can be tasted quite a bit.Here are a few questions you might want answered before you get started on this.

Peanut Butter Cake Mix Cookies

How do you make cookies out of cake mix?

We will show you how here. All you need is a box of your favorite mix, eggs and melted butter. This is the base batter you can add to from there. Use lemon or strawberry cake mix for a bit of fruity flavor. Spice cake mix is a great choice for the Fall with some pumpkin added in! NO need for two bowls to combine wet and dry separately, just throw it all in and go.

Betty Crocker Cake Mix Cookies with Butter

1. Cake mix
   1. betty crocker chocolate cake mix is great with white chocolate chips
   2. Butter pecan or spice is great in the fall with a bit of pressure cooker pumpkin puree
   3. We sometimes make homemade yellow cake mix for these. This and white cake mix are very versatile
2. Eggs
3. Melted butter
   1. vegetable oil could be substituted but butter is better
4. We added peanut butter to these
5. Could add peanut butter chips as well if you wanted for peanut butter cake mix cookies
6. Large bowl
7. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or spray with non stick spray
8. Cooling rack is handy to have

Kids love these because they can add just about anything. Put a scoop of ice cream in the middle for ice cream sandwiches too!

Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies

You could swap out Nutella for the PB if you wanted and try that. OR if you want a mixture then follow this one as is and spread the hazelnut spread on top to get both. Here are quick step by step directions. There is a printable recipe card at the bottom of this post too though.

Biggest tip when baking cookies– DO NOT overbake them!! 8 minutes is the right bake time almost always, as long as the scoops are with a medium cookie scoop.

• The edges should be browned and stiffening up.
• In the very middle it will appear to be a bit wet.
• Take them out at this time and leave them on the cookie sheet!

Allow them to cool completely and this will create a fall apart soft cookie, even the next day.

How to Make Peanut Butter Cake Mix Cookies

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2. In a bowl mix cake mix with eggs, melted butter and peanut butter if you’re adding that. Gently fold in any chips if you want those too.
   • Here’s how to make cake mix if you want to make your own from scratch.
3. Then scoop out dough with small cookie scoop and roll in a bowl full of sugar. Place on baking sheet with parchment paper and set into oven on middle rack.
4. Bake for 8 -10 minutes just until the outsides are lightly browned and are starting to stiffen up. Middle will still appear just a tad wet is the way we like it (so they remain chewy – we stick to 8 min.)

Take out, set pan on cooling rack and do not remove cookies until they’ve cooled so they can continue to stiffen up on the tray. Looks so good right??

How do you keep cookies from drying out?

Follow my suggestions when it comes to under-baking them a bit in the oven. You don’t want the middle to become stiff or else when they cool off they will be hard and crunchy.

• Remove tray when outside edges are barely brown.
• Very middle will appear a bit wet but that is okay, it will become perfect when they are cooled my friend.
• Do not remove from baking sheet until they are room temperature.

How should soft cookies be stored?

If you do happen to have leftovers make sure they are put into an airtight container. Air will dry them out. Keep them on your countertop instead of the refrigerator, that will keep them tender too.

Some people like to go a step further and put a small piece of bread in between each one when they’re stacked. The moisture in the bread will keep them soft longer. Want another fun idea? Make cake mix gingerbread cookies!

What can I do with dry cookies?

Let’s say you don’t follow my suggestions, boooo. Now they’re crispy and not soft like you wanted, now you’re going to start over. Don’t throw the others away though! Crush them and sprinkle them over ice cream or yogurt!

Other quick and easy desserts you’ll love

• We have another peanut butter oatmeal cookies recipe that we love too. Super moist every time and great with chocolate chips inside too.
• These chocolate chip air fryer cookies have been a fun treat to make. Small batches for those late night cravings. 😉
• Pumpkin cookies with cake mix are great too.
• Our easy dump peach cobbler uses cake mix in it too. Great year round but especially during the summertime.

And that is how you make cookies from boxed cake mix! So easy and versatile, you can make any flavor combination you want. We even made strawberry cake mix cookies once. Printable cookie recipe is below. Put it into your recipe box for later or come back again again. We love “seeing you” so don’t go away, we have a lot more to share with you every day.