3 Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies

Our easy 3 ingredient cake mix cookies recipe with oil or butter is delicious and so easy to bake. A simple dessert that is cheap to make under $5 dollars in any flavor you like, pretty like our cake mix crinkle cookies or with sprinkles.

Vanilla Cake Mix Cookies

Yes we have made tons of different boxed cake mix recipes. Why?? Because amping up an already ready bag of goodness just makes things more simple. We will share with you how to make boxed cake mix better here. From cookie recipes to brownies and even cooking them all in your air fryer, there are tons of possibilities.

If you’re finding this in the Fall you may want to give our pumpkin cookies with cake mix a whirl too. Using spiced instead of vanilla you can create the ultimate October treat. Love red velvet? That is a fun one to use especially during Valentine’s Day too.

We will go with this “basic” flavor though this time. I just want you to know that the add ins below would work with any other flavor you may want to try in the future. Once you have the dough ready, you can also add other goodies like sprinkles, mini chocolate chips, or roll in powdered sugar like we’ll show you. Yes you could make a batch of homemade shortbread cookies to decorate but if you want EASY this is where it’s at.

Better Crocker Cake Mix Cookies Ingredients

1. A box of your favorite cake mix
   1. you could use a gluten free variety too if you wanted
2. Eggs
3. Vegetable oil or melted and slightly cooled butter

Variations

If you want to use butter instead follow our Cake Mix Cookies with Butter recipe here instead. Vanilla or any other extract flavors are optional but will enhance the taste. Then if you want to make them into cake mix crinkle cookies you’d want a bowl full of confectioners sugar to roll them in before baking.

Adding a little bit of sprinkles will accentuate the look as well so use your imagination and change them up a bit just for fun. Want to add different colors like we did with our cake mix whoopie pies? That is an easy tweak too.

How to Cake Mix Cookies Taste Homemade

There are a few cake mix hacks you can follow when baking into cookies or rectangular pan to fool your guests into making them think they were from scratch. One thing you can do with these is use melted and cooled butter instead of oil. That has more flavor and fat to create a chewier texture.

Should you refrigerate cake mix cookie dough before baking?

Once simple ingredients are blended together it will be a bit soft. To fix this just leave the batter in the bowl, cover with saran wrap and put it into your fridge for an hour and 30 minutes or so. That will stiffen it up a bit so you can handle it easier to roll and prevent them from spreading on the baking sheet too.

You can just scoop and plop right on to your sprayed cookie sheet but note they will become flatter. You could use parchment paper instead of spray if you preferred too. Whatever makes them easier to remove and clean up later is the way to go as far as I’m concerned.

Add ins

Sprinkle some white chocolate chips or rainbow sprinkles on top of each one before popping them into the oven like our Chocolate Chip Yellow Cake Mix Cookies. For a crinkle look you just roll each in some powdered sugar before baking.

Refer to the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post for exact amount of each ingredient you need and instructions. Like our cake mix cookie bars do not follow the directions on the back, use these. Here is a real quick step by step though so you can get the drift.

How to Make Cake Mix Cookies with 3 Ingredients

• Start out by preheating the oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or use non stick cooking spray.
• Mix together any flavor like strawberry cake mix with oil and eggs into a large bowl.
• Refrigerate dough for an hour or so to help them keep their shape when baked.
• Scoop up a ball full and make into a ball. Roll dough into the powdered sugar if you’d like it to look like a crinkle cookie. If not just put on prepared baking sheet with space between them.
• Bake for about 10 minutes baking time or until the edges are lightly browned and middle is no longer wet.
• Remove and set on a cooling rack with cookies on tray until cooled. Then remove and enjoy.

With these and our brownie crinkle cookies you do NOT want to overbake them. The key is to wait until edges are golden brown but center still looks just a tad wet. If you then leave them on the cookie sheet while hot they will continue baking and stiffen up until room temperature. Soft and chewy is way better than crispy and crunchy.

Food coloring can be added during the holidays so they can be red and green for Christmas if you want.

Other holiday cookie recipes you’ll love

Want to make something a bit more complicated but SO worth it for the holidays? Give our chocolate pecan shortbread bars a whirl. You will need far more items to make these like egg and vanilla, flour, baking powder and salt etc. but it’s a homemade dough recipe we make each year during the holidays.

Just use a stand mixer to mix until light and fluffy and then layer and bake. Christmas cookies should all be totally different and y’all should make making them a tradition too. Even more fun is have several families make 2-3 each year, then come together for a party and swap them so everyone gets a dozen or so different types to take home.

Provide tins for everyone to load up and have a party gift on their way out. That way every family can bake together and then share why they made this or that. Many times the creations will be family recipes like our lebkuchen is. Now jump to recipe and get started! Then use chocolate cake mix for your next batch with cream cheese frosting!