Cake Mix Crinkle Cookies Recipe

These adorable cookies are specially made for our Elf friends. Cake Mix Crinkle Cookies are super easy to make and give you a delicious cake like cookie that are a perfect addition to your Christmas dessert table.

This is an easy recipe that you can easily do with the kids or for a cookie swap. While I used vanilla cake mix with green as the color – you can swap it out for chocolate and red, or be creative!

Recipes are meant to be played with, so if your little elves love chocolate, then these cake mix cookies can easily be swapped out.

If you are looking for a little extra flavor in your cookies we also provided a Peppermint Cookie Recipe option below and of course no Christmas cookie is good without a cup of White Peppermint Hot Chocolate!

Ingredients

• White cake mix
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 C oil 
• 1/3 C powder sugar
• Green food coloring 

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Combine all ingredients except the coloring and the powder sugar. 
3. Add in the green food coloring and mix till combined. 
4. In another bowl, add the powder sugar. 
5. Form dough into little balls. 
6. Roll into powder sugar and place an a parchment paper lined baking sheet. 
7. Bake for 8 minutes. 

Cake Mix Crinkle Cookies

Yield: 24

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 8 minutes

Total Time: 23 minutes

A cookie that is perfect for those little elves, made of cake mix for an extra level of awesomeness.

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Ingredients

• White cake mix
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 C oil
• 1/3 C powder sugar
• Green food coloring

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Combine all ingredients except the coloring and the powder sugar
3. Add in the green food coloring and mix till combined
4. In another bowl, add the powder sugar
5. Form dough into little balls
6. Roll into powder sugar and place an a parchment paper lined baking sheet
7. Bake for 8 minutes

Peppermint Cookie Option

If you love peppermint like I do, this option will be perfect for you. The only difference to the recipe above is to add a teaspoon of peppermint extract to get that peppermint flavor we all love this time of year.

When I made these crinkle cookies in the peppermint version I also used red and green food coloring to give them a different look as you can see below.