Cake Mix Cookies

Making cookies, using a cake mix, is an easy, quick way to make some scrumptious cookies. Here's one of my favorites;

Chocolate Crackles

1 box Devils Food cake mix
2 eggs
1 tablespoon water
1/2 cup Crisco
1/2 cup chocolate chips (personally, I like 1 cup)

Mix everything together. This is one of those recipes that you will need to use your hands unless you have a big mixer. Just squish it all up really good. Shape into balls and roll in powdered sugar. Bake at 375* for 8-9 minutes.

Comment: I baked them for 8 minutes in my oven, took them out of the oven and then left them on the cookie sheet for another minute and they were just right. They remind me of brownie bites. I also have made them with German Chocolate cake mix and they were good too. Just depends on how dark you like them. This made 45 cookies.

Here are a couple more ways to use cake mixes:

Butterscotch Chip Cookies

2 eggs
1 cup softened butter
1 caramel cake mix (which is hard to find, so Spice is good too)
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup - 1 cup (your preference) butterscotch chips

Mix all together and form balls and put on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 until lightly browned or set up. Don't over-bake. You can use this recipe with other flavors of cake mixes too and different flavored chips - like cherry, vanilla or peanut butter.

Oreo Cookies

1 chocolate cake mix
2 eggs
3/4 cup shortening

Mix together into balls. Don't flatten. Bake at 350 for 8 - 10 minutes. Put frosting between cookies to make it look like an Oreo. There's a recipe that follows or you can use any frosting and make it any color and they are such pretty cookies. One of our family's favorite. Yum.

Cream Cheese Frosting

8 oz. cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup margarine or butter
2 - 4 cups powdered sugar

Cream the first 3 ingredients, then add the powdered sugar a little at a time. Mix together until smooth and is a good spreading consistency. You can add food coloring to make this any color.