Chocolate Cowboy Cake Mix Cookies

These Chocolate Cowboy Cake Mix Cookies are a fun and easy twist on the original cowboy cookies that everyone loves.

Traditionally, cowboy cookies are loaded with coconut, nuts, oats, and chocolate chips and go by many names, IE, Laura Bush cookies and the Everything Cookie, depending on where you’re from.

This version keeps all those classic, hearty mix-ins but starts with a chocolate cake mix, making them extra rich, chocolatey, and unbelievably easy to make.

No complicated steps, no chilling the dough, just mix, scoop, drop, and bake!

Perfect for bake sales, potlucks, holidays, or when you need a quick dessert with big flavor, these cookies are soft, chewy, and customizable to whatever you have on hand.

If you are a cookie jar cookie lover, do try my family's Original Cowboy AKA Everything Cookies, Chocolate Chip Shortbread recipe, Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe, and oatmeal cookies!

Cake Mix Chocolate Spice Meatball Cookies

Grandma always made Italian Chocolate Spice Ball Cookies aka Chocolate Meatballs Cookies around the holidays, and we have adapted her recipe by using a cake mix that is super easy and absolutely delicious.

As kids, we called them chocolate meatballs cookies because they're round like a meatball.

The cookies looked so pretty frosted with white or chocolate icing with some colorful sprinkles to match the holiday theme.

These cake mix cookies stay nice and moist, are very light in texture, and have a wonderful aroma of cinnamon spice, festive flavors.

If you prefer to make this cookie recipe all from scratch try our old-fashioned chocolate spice cookies grandma used to make which is the original recipe from the 1960s.

Our cake mix cookies are a great addition to your recipe collection when you need a large amount and are in a hurry, using all simple pantry ingredients.

For a festive Christmas cookie just frost and decorate them with colorful holiday-themed sprinkles.

The cookies are great to bake for that last-minute party your invited to and perfect for bringing to a cookie exchange.

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.