Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake Mix Cookies are soft, chewy and taste a little bit like peanut butter cups! Made with a chocolate cake mix, peanut butter, eggs and butter for a quick and easy cookie recipe.
Cake mix cookies are my new obsession. Starting a cookie recipe with a cake mix is just so easy. There are endless flavors and modifications and ways to create new cookies that are made with only a few ingredients!
I love peanut butter cookies, but there is just nothing better than peanut butter and chocolate together. I decided to add peanut butter to a basic chocolate cake mix cookie and the results taste a little bit like a Reese’s peanut butter cup.
CAKE MIX COOKIES
I love making cookies with boxed cake mix. It not only helps to reduce the time in the kitchen, but it helps cookies to turn out perfectly soft & chewy. These chocolate cake mix cookies with peanut butter are no different. They taste as awesome as they look and the chocolate and peanut butter flavor combination is amazing!
Ingredients in Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake Mix Cookies
Chocolate cake mix – Any regular sized box of chocolate cake mix will work, so use your favorite!
Butter – In most cookie recipes, you soften the butter instead of melting, but in cake mix cookies, melted butter works better. Cake mix cookie dough tends to be pretty thick, so the melted butter will make them easier to mix up.
Peanut butter– I use regular creamy peanut butter, but crunchy peanut butter would be great too. I haven’t tried a more natural peanut butter in this recipe, but in other cookie recipes, natural peanut butter hasn’t worked out so well.
Eggs
How to make Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake Mix Cookies
Preheat oven to 350°.
In a large bowl, add melted butter, peanut butter and eggs to the cake mix. Mix with an electric mixer until well blended.
Use a cookie scoop to scoop out tablespoon sized balls and then roll between your hands for a perfect round shape.
Place the cookie dough balls on a prepared cookie sheet and press each ball lightly with the back of a fork twice – making a criss-cross pattern.
Bake for 8 minutes and then let the cookies cool on the cookie sheet for several minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
WHAT BRAND OF CAKE MIX SHOULD I USE?
You can use any brand of cake mix, whether that is a store brand, Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker or another store brand. All of them should work the same but I recommend picking one that you have tried before so you know you like it.
TIPS FOR MAKING PERFECT CAKE MIX COOKIES
- Preheat the oven. This will help your cookies turn out right every time!
- Use a cookie scoop! If you want all your cookies to be perfectly shaped and have them all be the same size, a cookie scoop is the way to go.
- Use parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Doing this will make it really easy to remove the cookies from your cookie sheet so that you don’t have to scrape them off the pan – they will just slide right off in perfect shape!
- Don’t over bake the cookies – when I take mine out of the oven, they still look slightly under baked but they will continue to bake on the cookie sheet for a couple more minutes so that’s ok!
MORE CAKE MIX COOKIE RECIPES TO TRY:
- Mint Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
- Valentines Cake Mix Cookies
- Caramel Spice Cake Mix Cookies
- Caramel Apple Cake Mix Cookies
- Chocolate Caramel Cake Mix Cookies
- Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies
- Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake Mix Cookies are soft, chewy and taste a little bit like peanut butter cups! Made with a chocolate cake mix, peanut butter, eggs and butter for a quick and easy cookie recipe.
We recently moved to a new home and we have a massive sandbox in the backyard. It was too hot to play in it much for the first couple of months we lived here, but now that the weather is cooling down, the kids have spent hours out there. The other day, I looked outside and saw my son buried all the way up to his waist in sand! Baby B thought it was hysterical and they ended up burying him multiple times in a row. I love how kids can be entertained for hours by something so simple. And I am so grateful for the many hours of entertainment that the sandbox has provided my kids – anything that keeps them busy for that long without a screen being involved is a winner in my book!
wilhelmina says
I love these cookies! They are so easy and delicious. My daughter loved to help make them!
Kaylie says
Thank you, Wilhelmina!
Shadi Hasanzadenemati says
The combination of flavors in this dish is great! Love it!
Kaylie says
Thank you, Shadi!
Melissa Cottrell says
Can’t wait to try this recipe.
MaryannD. says
Great Recipe! Quick, Easy & DELICIOUS!!! A Keeper!