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Just baked these this weekend and they are gone already. Fabulous!
JoAnn
How do you like my rickety old baking pan? My warped, blackened, scratched, baking pan that has been beaten to shreds by that mean ol’ Filipino oven?
You guys. I generally treat my kitchen gear with care. But one round of untimed oven-roasted squash was all it took to blacken this girl’s entire surface, throw her in the trash, and then dig her back out of the trash when I remembered that she is my only baking pan here.
Could I drive to the store and buy a new one? Well…
Don’t ask me stuff like that.
And now here we are today, just me and the world’s most beat-up piece of kitchen metal, makin’ cake mix cookies together in the world’s hottest kitchen, six jumbo cookies at a time. With you. And I wouldn’t have it any other way, except I would take an air conditioner in the kitchen and I wouldn’t mind a larger baking pan. But other than that.
I made these on a whim on yet another random hot night and fell in completely love. Fudgy like a brownie, soft like a cookie, and extra large. Loaded with white chocolate chips and completely saturated with rich chocolate flavor. Oh. My.
I adore them.
And suddenly it’s the next night and there I am, just me and my beat-up pan, making the exact same cookies all over again, with extra white chocolate chips, recipe doubled because these are just begging to be eaten by and with friends.
Are cookies not the world’s best sharing food?
They just are.
Then there’s the whole cake mix thing. How and why people make cookies with a cake mix is a mystery to me, but I just did it and I’m now forever a believer. Of course, not for ALL cookies. Some things are non-negotiable.
But for these deep dark chewy soft chocolate heaven cookies, yes. I’ll do it and I’ll be happy about it. And you’ll be really happy about it too, when they come out of your oven in about 5 minutes.
Happiness = jumbo fudgy double chocolate cookies.
And I am happy.
Double Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 15 1x
Description
These double chocolate cake mix cookies are super easy to make and make for chewy, chocolatey cookies. Delicious and so simple!
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- 1 egg
- 1 packet instant coffee dissolved in 2 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoons oil
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- 1 ½ cup chocolate chips
- 1 ½ cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Beat the butter until smooth. Add the egg and beat again until incorporated. Add the coffee, oil, and vanilla and beat until combined.
- Add the cake mix in batches and beat slowly after each addition until just combined.
- Stir in the chocolate chips and white chocolate chips. Roll into balls and place on a baking sheet a few inches apart. Bake for 7-10 minutes, until the tops are just set (not wet-looking anymore), the cookies are evenly flattened, and they are starting to get cracks in them. If the cookies are done, they should come off the pan relatively easily with a spatula. If the cookies are not holding together, you probably need to bake them a little longer. Remove from the baking sheet and let cool for a few minutes before serving.
Notes
My Filipino oven does not allow me the luxury of exact temperatures (!!), so once again I am giving it my best guess in terms of time and temperature. The timing on this one is kind of important to get that soft, chewy texture, so make sure to look for the signs of doneness (flattened out, slightly cracked tops, cookie holding together, etc.) to get it right for your oven. ☺
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: double chocolate cookies, cookie recipe, chocolate cookies, cake mix cookies
These look great for “on a whim!” 🙂
Gotta love a good chocolate cake mix cookie – foolproof and delish every time. But yours look especially awesome! Love the white and dark choc chips you added!
I love your beat up baking pan – I know a lot of food bloggers who would pay a lot of money for that kind of prop 😉
The photos in this post are awesome too Lindsay, these cookies look so good!
Here’s the sad thing… I think it’s even too bent for pictures! But I’m planning to try at least. Maybe I can flatten it back out or something. I’ve always wanted to try pics with a charred pan, so hopefully I can get it to work!
They have similar cake mixes over there? Or can you buy the American stuff at absurd prices?
These look amazing! I’d love to make them but making my own cake mix hasn’t really worked out and I can’t bring myself to pay $8 for some cake mix that costs $1 in the US. Big fat beautiful cookies. Yum!
I think it was Betty Crocker! And I can’t remember how much but I would not have paid 8 dollars! I only spend that (and more) on my rare and precious pecans. 🙂
these cookies look delic…and note I am jealous of you wearing shorts. brrr…getting cold here.
I generally shy away from cake mixes, but these look so good, I definitely need to give it a chance. Also, you baking pan looks like every piece of equipment I owned prior to getting married. As long as the cookies taste good, why replace it?
Oh my, this looks like Chocolate Heaven!
Those definitely look like happiness to me!
These look great and I love the look of the pan!
Gorgeous. Sometimes you just need a cake mix cookie. These are amazing!
This looks and sounds like the most addictive cookie recipe! That old baking sheet is still doing it’s job, I can see! 🙂
I think I’m gonna sub the white chocolate chips for peanut butter chips!!! I can’t wait to try them!
That sounds ah-mazing.
Those look incredibley perfectly chocolatey and fudgey. Like so good I need them today.
I like a “used” looking pan but if it bothers you try putting a paste of baking soda and vinegar on it and let it sit for 30 minutes… It usually takes the black right off 😉
Love the inclusion of your well used baking sheet! Totally adds a sense of reality to the photo series..
I follow your blog now for while and I really like this cookie. If it was not so late (Germany 23:00), I’d try them. Would you mind to tell me how much is a packet and a box?
And i want to tell you, that i really like your kind of fotography. Really well done.
Thank you! It’s about 15 ounces for a regular box of cake mix.
These cookies look amazinggggg!!!!! Outstanding pics as always!!!
My cookie sheets look just like that! I’m convinced they make better cookies!
Those cookies look wonderful. You pictures are always fantastic.
oh geeze louise look how freakin perfect these cookies are. just when i try to swear off cake mix, i see incredible PERFECT cookies just like this. Swear off cake mix in favor of made-from-scratch? i must be silly bc these are the prettiests, hugest, most perf chocolate cookies i’ve seen in awhile!! and i bake ALOT of cookies!! 🙂
LOVE your baking pan! I kinda wish I had one all scratched up like that 🙂
Um, wow. I think i found my next cookie recipe to make 🙂
And my next ones are your chocolate pudding cookies! Yum!
I just made these and I cannot express how DELICIOUS they are! Seriously, LOVE LOVE LOVE them and they are perfect because I am meeting a good friend tomorrow and she LOVES chocolate! Wow! I did find that I needed to cook them a bit closer to 10-12 minutes in my oven. They are so super moist!
Good to know. Glad you liked them!
These look delicious! Loving your photography/lighting tonight!
Thanks Linds! Can I call you Linds? 🙂
And just as I told myself I wasn’t going to be doing dessert for awhile these little babies popped up in my email. Thanks I guess? 🙂
😉 anytime girl.
Do you have to use the coffee–I am not a coffee person.
But these really look good!
I was wondering if the coffee can be substituted (or omitted) as well.
Maybe just add the water? Or sub. with milk? Add some cocoa powder?
Can I use regular made coffee and how much? Thanks
Wow, those look incredible!