Picture & Recipe courtesy of The Famous Ashley Grant
One of my favorite things about this time of the year is baking cookies. I love baking cookies to give away to friends and family. There was one year when money was so tight that the only gift we gave to friends and family was cookie trays. (I made 18 different types of cookies that year!) To me, sometimes homemade gifts like this are treasured more than gifts you buy and wrap. Typically, what I do is bake lots of cookies over one or two days. I then freeze them until we get closer to Christmas. I then thaw all the cookies and make cookie trays to give away once the week of Christmas is upon us.
Every day between 11/30/11 and Christmas Eve, I will post 25 Days of Christmas Cookies. I would love your help! If you have a favorite cookie/bar to make this time of year, I would love for you to email me a picture of the finished product as well as a step by step recipe for it. I will then post your recipe and thousands of Addicted to Saving readers will get the chance to try out your recipe! Email me at addictedtosaving at hotmail dot com (all one word).
Day 15 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookies: Cake Mix Cookies
I received this recipe from Ashley and I know what you are thinking. You are thinking that I am posting a recipe of chocolate chip cookies. But here is the thing.. This isn’t regular chocolate chip cookies. This is cake mix cookies. If you have been into couponing for any period of time, you know that with sales and coupons, we can get great deals on cake mix. So, with this recipe, we can use the cake mix we have in our stockpile AND make a super simple and yet amazingly yummy cookie! The thing I love about this recipe is that you can use WHATEVER flavor cake mix you want! Ashley has made this recipe with Carrot Cake Mix and raisins, Yellow Cake Mix and chocolate chips, etc! Have you made this recipe before? Would love to hear the flavor combinations you came up with!
Ingredients
1 Box Cake Mix (pictured above yellow cake mix)
2 Eggs
1/2 c oil
1 cup Filler Item ex. Chocolate Chips, White Chocolate Chips, Raisins, Crushed Candy Bars, Nuts, etc
Directions
1) Preheat oven at 350 degrees
2) Mix Cake Mix, eggs, oil and filler item together. Form into little balls
3) Bake for 4 – 10 minutes or until edges have turned light brown.
Christmas Cookies Recap:
Day 1 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookies Recipe: Peanut Butter Blossoms
Day 2 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Rainbow Cookies
Day 3 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Monster Cookies
Day 4 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Hot Cocoa Cookies
Day 5 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Jam Thumbprints
Day 6 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Cinnamon Roll Cookies
Day 7 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Lemon Sugar Cookies
Day 8 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Easy as Fudge
Day 9 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Chocolate Mint Brownies
Day 10 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Snowball Cookies
Day 11 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars
Day 12 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Rich Dark Chocolate Tiger Cookies
Day 13 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Reindeer Cupcakes
Day 14 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Chocolate Chunk Blondies
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My name is Liza and I began my money-saving journey in the Spring of 2009 as a way to stretch a limited household income. I had lost my job and my hubby was self-employed. I launched Addicted to Saving in November of 2009 and it has grown by leaps and bounds. Since then, my hubby and I have struggled with the ups and downs of two failed adoptions and are now LOVING being parents to our little man Asher who we brought home from Ethiopia in August of 2013. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to help you save money. My goal is that you will have FUN and become empowered to save more and more money each week..
These sound delicious!!! I am going to have to try them!!!! Thanks for sharing the recipe!!!
I just made these with red velvet cake mix and white chocolate chips- sooooo good – and easy too! Thanks for the recipe!