Cake Mix Crinkle Cookies (Christmas Edition)
Soft, chewy, colorful cookies coated in powdered sugar with a beautiful crinkled look — and the best part? They're made with cake mix!
🎄 Ingredients (Makes 24 cookies)
1 box white cake mix (15.25 oz / 432 g)
2 large eggs
⅓ cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional but recommended)
Red gel food coloring
Green gel food coloring
1 cup powdered sugar (for rolling)
👩🍳 Instructions
- Make the Cookie Dough
- In a mixing bowl, add:
cake mix
eggs
vegetable oil
vanilla extract
- Mix with a spoon or hand mixer until a thick dough forms.
- Divide and Color
- Divide the dough into two equal bowls.
- Add red gel coloring to one bowl, and green gel coloring to the other.
- Mix each dough until the color is evenly combined.
Tip: Use gel coloring so the dough doesn’t become too soft.
- Chill (Important!)
Place both doughs in the refrigerator for 20–30 minutes.
This makes them easier to roll and gives better crinkles.
- Shape the Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
- Scoop 1 tablespoon of dough and roll it into a ball.
- Roll each dough ball generously in powdered sugar.
The more powdered sugar, the better the crackle effect!
- Bake
- Place the cookie balls on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 9–11 minutes.
- Cookies should be slightly soft in the center — they firm up as they cool.
- Cool and Serve
Let cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack.
Enjoy the soft, chewy, festive goodness! 🎅💚❤️