HALLOWEEN CAKE MIX SPRINKLE COOKIES

Nellie — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:32:19 +0000

Halloween Cake Mix Sprinkle Cookies are easy to make and perfectly festive for Halloween. Use a cake mix, vanilla frosting, and colorful sprinkles to make these simple holiday cookies.

Halloween Cake Mix Sprinkle Cookies not only taste delicious, but they’re perfectly festive too! Great for Halloween parties and get-togethers. Use different colored sprinkles to make these cookies fit any holiday or special occasion.

I absolutely love making cookies from scratch, and I usually do, but sometimes I just don’t have the time and I need a bit of a shortcut. Especially when my kids are all wanting to help out! I discovered this recipe recently and it’s become a family favorite- the kids love to help dip these cookies and add the sprinkles.

What are cake mix cookies?

Cake mix cookies are cookies that are made with a box of cake mix as the base ingredient. Because many of the dry ingredients used in cookies are also the same ingredients you find in a boxed cake mix, you usually only have to add a few more basic ingredients to make soft and chewy cookies!

One of the things that I love about cake mix cookies is that it is so easy to change up the flavors a little bit, just by swapping out the cake mix that you use. For example, this recipe asks for a white cake mix, but you could easily swap in a yellow cake mix, or even a chocolate cake mix and the results would all be delicious!

Ingredients in Halloween Cake Mix Sprinkle Cookies

White cake mix – The base of the cookies is a white cake mix. You can use a different flavor of cake if you prefer.

Sprinkles – You can use any color of sprinkles or a combination of colors that you’d like. Orange, purple, and green all work well for Halloween, but green and red are perfect for Christmas, red and blue for the 4th of July, etc.

Oil – You can use vegetable or canola oil, but I often use coconut oil in baked goods. Just make sure the coconut oil is melted to liquid form before adding to the cookie dough.

Butter – Melt the butter before mixing with the other ingredients.

Eggs – Two large eggs will bind all of the other ingredients together.

Vanilla frosting – You can make homemade frosting if you’d like, but a can of premade frosting is easier and works great! You will need to warm up the frosting in the microwave so that you can easily dip the cookies in it before adding more sprinkles.

Sprinkles – Yep, more sprinkles! Make sure to add the additional sprinkles before the frosting sets up or they won’t stick! Again, use any colors you’d like. The smaller and lighter the sprinkles, the more easily they will stick to the frosting!

How to make Halloween Cake Mix Sprinkle Cookies

MAKE THE COOKIES

Preheat the oven to 350° and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.

In a large mixing bowl, add the cake mix and sprinkles. Mix well.

Add the oil, butter, and eggs. Using a wooden spoon, mix until all ingredients are thoroughly combined.

Don’t use an electric mixer or overmix the cookie dough.

Using a cookie scoop, scoop the dough onto the baking sheet, about 1 ½ – 2 inches apart.

Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges barely begin to brown.

Remove from heat and carefully move the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.

ADD THE FROSTING

Once the cookies have cooled, add ½ cup of vanilla frosting to a microwave-safe bowl. Heat in 10-second increments until completely melted. Stir between heating.

Dip one side of each cookie into the melted frosting and place the cookies back on the wire rack.

Add sprinkles before the frosting dries.