Nancy's Recipe

Cream Cheese Cake Mix Soft Cookies

Category: Cookies and Bars

I love this recipe. It is no-fail and makes the best soft cookies. Quick and easy.

Soften butter and cream cheese at room temperature for an hour prior to mixing up this recipe. Preheat oven to 375. Makes about 2 dozen.

Use any flavor of cake mix that you want. Be creative adding nuts, raisins, chocolate chips, and other goodies! Try yellow cake with cream cheese frosting or add chocolate chips to chocolate cake mix.


1/4 cup butter or stick margarine, softened
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
4 tablespoons milk (whole or 2%, not skim)
1 pkg. (18.5 oz) cake mix, any flavor

Cream butter and cream cheese. Blend in egg and vanilla. Add cake mix, 1/3 at a time. Hint: put mixer on low for this phase so the cake mix doesn't blow all over. Mix well after each addition. Add milk slowly to avoid splattering.

Cover and chill 30 to 60 minutes. This is a key step. Drop by teaspoons (or tablespoons if you want larger cookies) onto a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until cookie bounces back when touched.

Cool 3 to 5 minutes before removing cookies to a cooling rack. Ice with your favorite frosting.

Part of the Barickman collection.