Cake Mix Whipped Topping 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.

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.

One of the best things about this recipe is its versatility. With dozens of cake mix flavors available, you can create a completely different cookie for every holiday, celebration, or craving. Whether you choose classic lemon, rich chocolate, strawberry, red velvet, spice cake, or funfetti, you'll have a colorful cookie that's always a hit.

Perfect for cookie exchanges, bake sales, holiday platters, after-school treats, or simply satisfying a sweet tooth, these cookies are nearly foolproof and require very little prep time.

Here are some favorite cake mix hack recipes to try: Turtle Cake Mix Brownies, Sour Cream Coffee Cake Mix Cupcakes, and our Half Moon Cake Mix Cookies, which 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.

Why You Will Love This Recipe for Cake Mix Cookies

• Only a few simple ingredients are needed.
• Uses inexpensive pantry staples.
• Soft, chewy, cake-like texture.
• Beautiful crackled powdered sugar coating.
• Ready in about 30 minutes.
• Perfect recipe for beginner bakers.
• Endless flavor combinations using different cake mixes.
• Great make-ahead and freezer-friendly cookies.
• Kid-friendly recipe that's fun to make together.
• Ideal for holidays, birthdays, cookie swaps, and gifting.

Delicious Mix-ins for Crinkle Cookies

• White chocolate chips
• Mini chocolate chips
• Peanut butter chips
• Butterscotch chips
• Cinnamon chips
• Chopped pecans, Walnuts
• Toasted coconut
• Colorful sprinkles
• Holiday jimmies
• Crushed peppermint candy
• Mini marshmallows
• Finely chopped dried cherries
• Lemon zest
• Orange zest
• Toffee bits

How To Store These Cookies

• Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
• Freeze baked cookies for up to 3 months.
• Separate cookie layers with parchment paper before freezing.
• Let frozen cookies thaw at room temperature before serving.
• If needed, dust with a little fresh powdered sugar before serving for the prettiest presentation.

Helpful Tips

1. Chill the dough for at least 30 minutes if it's too sticky to handle.
2. Generously coat each dough ball in powdered sugar for bold, snowy crinkles.
3. Roll the dough in granulated sugar first, then in powdered sugar to help keep the powdered sugar from melting during baking.
4. Don't overbake.
5. The centers should still look slightly soft when removed from the oven.
6. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack.
7. Use a cookie scoop for evenly sized cookies that bake uniformly.
8. Line baking sheets with parchment paper for easy cleanup.
9. Store powdered sugar in an airtight container so it stays lump-free.

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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.

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Yield: 40

Author: Claudia Lamascolo

Cake Mix Whipped Topping Crinkle Cookies

4 Ingredient Cool Whip Crinkle Cookies super easy and delicious!

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

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 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 pan is cooled and make another batch
• store these in airtight containers

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. Grinch Cookies: tint a white cake mix with green food coloring and proceed the same
9. chopped peanut butter cups or another chopped candy you prefer
10. mint-filled chocolate candies chopped
11. chopped unwrapped caramels, pistachios, pecans, macadamia nuts, coconut
12. pumpkin seeds for nut allergies
13. cookies cant be left plain, rolled in cinnamon sugar, powdered sugar, or frosted
14. add coconut and chocolate chips
15. For Chocolate Cake Mix Combinations:
16. coconut, chocolate chips, maraschino cherries, and almond or vanilla extract
17. 1 teaspoon anisette extract, dark chocolate chips, and anisette chocolate frosting
18. chocolate teaspoon of cinnamon, chocolate chips, a dash of allspice, drizzle with chocolate icing, and top with pistachios

Nutrition Facts

Calories

75.6

Fat (grams)

1.43 g

Sat. Fat (grams)

0.96 g

Carbs (grams)

14.86 g

Fiber (grams)

0.14 g

Net carbs

14.72 g

Sugar (grams)

9.72 g

Protein (grams)

0.98 g

Sodium (milligrams)

96.83 mg

Cholesterol (grams)

8.29 mg

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