Cream Cheese Cake Mix Cookies

By clawson

Ingredients

• Ingredients
• 1 bx cake mix, any flavor
• 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/4 c butter, room temperature
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp vanilla (optional, depending on flavor)
• 1 c any add-ins (flavored chips, candy, nuts, etc) amounts can be varied. for chocolate chip i added a 12 oz bag of semisweet chips

Preparation

Step 1

1
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2
Cream together butter and cream cheese. Add egg and vanilla and mix until well blended (I used a mixer for this part only).
3
Stir in cake mix a little at a time until it's all blended and then add any chips, candy or nuts, as you like
4
Bake for 10 minutes, until edges are brown.

Oh my gosh, these are good and so easy. Use your imagination. I stumbled upon this recipe after realizing just how many cake mixes I had in my pantry. I love the flavor the cream cheese gives it. I'm a chocolate chip fiend, so I used a Duncan Hines French Vanilla cake mix and a small package of chocolate chips.

Comments from the Test Kitchen:
Deliciously sweet and buttery! We used a butter cake mix and added chocolate chips. This, along with the cream cheese, turned these cookies into the ultimate sweet treat. Seriously good!