Cake Mix Crinkle Cookies

If you're pressed for time with a busy lifestyle and love doctored cake mix recipes these crinkle cookies, (otherwise known as cool whip cookies) will be your new favorite cookie to bake for the holiday season.

Just one doctored cake mix that takes 4 ingredients to make these crinkle delights that will be transformed into pretty snow-topped delicious tasting cookies perfect for a holiday baking tray or cookie exchange party.

Any flavored cake mixes can be used and a variety of colorful cookies make an easy full beautiful tray for the Christmas holiday.

We love using Red Velvet, Spice, and Lemon will make such a pretty array of colors and you can even add some mix-ins for a delicious change from plain to chunky cookies.

These cake mix cookies are very light in texture ( using the whipped topping of choice) and with a few mix-ins like chocolate chips, nuts, sprinkles, or dried fruits, you can create all different kinds with our tips and suggestions below.

This easy-to-make cookie recipe can also be made with also flavors, and brands you prefer of cake mixes, however, to get a vast variety we usually choose a yellow or a white mix to start off with.

The cookies are great to bake for that last-minute parties and will take half the time to make all those different kinds just with one dough and one mix.

If you love easy doctored cake mix recipes try our Turtle Cake Mix Brownies, Sour Cream Coffee Cake Mix Cupcakes, and our Half Moon Cake Mix Cookies we make often.

Scroll down to the recipe card and don't forget to read my tips and suggestions that have some creative ideas for other flavored cake mixes.

Step By Step Doctored Cake Mix Cookies

1. preheat the oven and prepare your baking sheets with parchment paper or Silpat mats
2. add the additional ingredients to a bowl with the cake mix
3. freeze  the dough for 1 hour wrapped
4. using a melon ball scoop roll the balls into powdered sugar
5. bake, cool, and enjoy!

Other Mix-In Suggestions:

1. peanut butter chips
2. mint chocolate chips
3. toffee chips, butterscotch chips, lemon chips, milk or white chocolate chips
4. substitute sunflower seeds, chopped pretzels or cereal for nuts
5. dried fruits like cranberries
6. for Christmas, colors add chopped maraschino cherries and white chocolate chips
7. white, milk, and dark chocolate chunks
8. chopped peanut butter cups or another chopped candy you prefer
9. mint-filled chocolate candies chopped
10. chopped unwrapped caramels, pistachios, pecans, macadamia nuts, coconut
11. pumpkin seeds for nut allergies
12. cookies cant be left plain, rolled in cinnamon sugar, powdered sugar, or frosted
13. add coconut and chocolate chips
14. For Chocolate Cake Mix Combinations:
15. coconut, chocolate chips, maraschino cherries, and almond or vanilla extract
16. 1 teaspoon anisette extract, dark chocolate chips, and anisette chocolate frosting
17. chocolate teaspoon of cinnamon, chocolate chips, a dash of allspice, drizzle with chocolate icing, and top with pistachios

Ingredients You Will Need (scroll down for exact measurements)

• yellow cake mix or another flavor
• eggs
• whipped topping thawed
• powdered sugar

Tips

• roll cookies into powdered sugar before baking
• bake on parchment paper
• chocolate chips of any kind can be added to around 1 cup
• use any flavored cake mix
• only use thawed whipped topping
•  add some funfetti sprinkle to the batter for a festive look
  
• add extracts to a white cake batter for another flavor combination
• if using only one cookie sheet keep the remaining dough in the freezer until the pan is cooled and make another batch
• store these in airtight containers

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Cake Mix and Extract Suggestions

Of course, you can use a spice cake mix, yellow, or red velvet any cake mix will turn into beautiful holiday crinkle cookies in no time with foolproof results.


Use peppermint, almond, anise, lemon, orange, or maple extracts in white cake mixes for an assortment of different flavors, you can even divide the dough.

Cake Mix Crinkle Cookies

Yield: 40

Author: Claudia Lamascolo

Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 10 MinInactive time: 1 HourTotal time: 1 H & 20 M

Cake Mix crinkles cookies are super easy to make and foolproof. Pretty snowy-looking cookies rolled into powdered sugar and baked.

Ingredients

• 1 8oz tub of whipped topping thawed (IE cool whip or another brand)
• 1 package of cake mix of any flavor you like (shown are lemon cake mix cookies)
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 eggs

Instructions

1. Mix whipped topping thawed with eggs and cake mix together.
2. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and freeze it for around an hour.
3. Using a small melon ball scoop, make small round balls, and roll them into the powdered sugar.
4. Place cookies on parchment lined cookie sheet, ( return batter in between baking to the freezer for easy molding) if you only have one cookie sheet.
5. Bake at 350 degrees hot oven for 8 to 10 minutes.

Notes

Tips

• roll cookies into powdered sugar before baking
• bake on parchment paper
• chocolate chips of any kind can be added to approximately 1 cup
• use any flavored cake mix
• add finely chopped nuts
• add candied fruits to the batter
• only use thawed whipped topping
•  add some funfetti sprinkle to the batter for a festive look
• add extracts to a white cake batter for another flavor combination
• if using only one cookie sheet keep the remaining dough in the freezer until the pan is cooled and make another batch
• use peppermint, almond, anise, lemon, orange, or maple extracts in white cake mixes for an assortment of different flavors, you can even divide the dough
• store these in airtight containers

Nutrition Facts

Calories

75.6

Fat (grams)

1.43

Sat. Fat (grams)

0.96

Carbs (grams)

14.86

Fiber (grams)

0.14

Net carbs

14.72

Sugar (grams)

9.72

Protein (grams)

0.98

Sodium (milligrams)

96.83

Cholesterol (grams)

8.29

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Disclosure: This recipe was originally shared in 2012. It was edited and re-published in 2022.