Cake mix cookies is a type of cookie that use a box of cake mix as one of the ingredient. Cake mix can be used to make cookies because a box of cake mix already contains the ingredient that are necessary to make cookies, such as flour, sugar, leavening agent, and flavoring. Thus, no additional flour and sugar are required to make cake mix cookies.
To make cake mix cookies, one box of cake mix, two egg, and one-third of cup of oil are required. The eggs holds the cookie dough together, while the oil is responsible for providing the cookies with a soft and chewy texture. You can change the flavor of the cake mix cookies by use cake mixes of different flavors.
How to Make Cake Mix Cookies
For instance, if you use chocolate cake mix, you can add nut, coconut, or caramel to the dough. If a fruit-flavored cake mix is used, white chocolate can be added to the dough. Yellow cake mix can be used with almost any additional ingredient because it has a neutral flavor.
Additionally, using a different fat than the oil that is typical included in the recipe can change the texture of the cookies. For instance, using melted butter will lead to cake mix cookies with crispier edges then those made with oil, while using cream cheese will produce cake mix cookies with the same texture as cake. The size of the cake mix cookies will impact the baking time for the cookies.
Small cake mix cookies will bake through to the center more faster than large cake mix cookies because they have a smaller center to cook through. If you make giant cake mix cookies, you should of use a lower oven temperature so that the edge of the giant cake mix cookies do not cook faster than the center of the giant cake mix cookies. Furthermore, if you bake cake mix cookies in a pan as cookie bar, you must bake the cookie bars for a longer time because the cookie bars have less surface area expose to the heat.
You must be careful with the temperature of the cake mix cookie dough to avoid common problem. If the dough is too warm, the cake mix cookies will spread too thin in the oven. To avoid this problem, chill the cake mix cookie dough for thirty minute before baking the cookies.
If the cake mix cookies do not spread enough while baking, press the dough with a glass before baking the dough. If the cake mix cookies come out dry and crumbly when done baking, it is because the cake mix cookies were in the oven for too long. To avoid this problem, remove the cake mix cookies from the oven while the centers of the cookies is still slightly underdone because the cookies will continue to cook on the hot cookie pan after you remove the cookies from the oven.
Store cake mix cookies in an airtight container at room temperature to keep them soft for several day. To store the dough, scoop the cookie dough into ball and freeze the balls on a tray. Once you freeze the cookie dough balls, place the balls in a bag.
Bake the frozen cookie balls directly from the freezer. However, add a few extra minutes to the baking time for frozen cookie balls. Thus, storing the cake mix cookie dough in the freezer allows you to bake fresh cake mix cookies with very few preparation time.