Gooey Butter Cookies

I have made these cookies several times and have tried several different cake mixes. Each cake mix results in a different texture and flavor. So it's important to know that the dough may not be easily workable, but if that is the case just make a bar cookie instead of the individual cookies. The following cake mixes worked well: (just remember to refrigrate over night) -Lemon Cake Mix (nice dough)(use lemon extract instead of vanilla) and if you would like make a lemon glaze and drizzle over cookie when cooled. (These got a lot of rave reviews when I made them). - Cherry Chip cake mix (nice dough) got rave reviews, devils food cake mix (sticky dough)good taste, german chocolate (nice dough), Carmel cake mix (forget it, very sticky dough- is workable to some degree you just wont get as many cookies. Next I want try carrot cake mix, strawberry cake mix, and spice cake mix. I did discover that it's better to refrigrate over night and use a small cookie scoop, My scoop is big so once I scoop a cookie out of the dough I cut it in half, roll it and then shake it in a baggy with powdered sugar. In my oven 12 min. exact is the cooking time any longer these cookies get a crispy burnt bottom. I hope everyone enjoys trying these other cake mixes as well as my family, neighbors and friends have. :) (update) Strawberry cake was pretty good. But our newest favorite rave review cake choice is Orange. I just made lemon cookies and orange cookies for a church social and then again

These cookies are incredibly delicious! I made them for a bake sale, and although they appeared kind of plain at first, once people tasted them, they came back for more! I cannot wait to try this recipe with different flavors of cake mix next time. If you are lucky enough to have any left, they taste even better a few hours after they come out of the oven. One warning, though: It may seem as though the baking time may be off, but DO NOT OVERBAKE. It is just about right. The cookies will continue to cook a bit once they are out of the oven. They are soft and just melt in your mouth. The last thing you want is a burned cookie. Definitely try this one. Mmm mmm good.

Folks just love these cookies. "Like a little bit of heaven in your mouth". A few notes that would make this cookie dough easier to handle. One dough is made, put in fridge for 2 hours or overnight. This will make it easier to work with. Also, when rolling the dough I will put a light spray of Pam or Mazola cooking spray on my hands which keeps it from sticking.

"Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Ever" - a direct quote from my boyfriend. These were super simple and super delicious. I sprinkled powdered sugar over half of the baked cookies and added chocolate chips to the other half. I highly recomend adding the chocolate chips. : ) Don't bother with refrigerating the dough and rolling it into balls. Just treat it as normal cookie dough and use a cookie scoop. This worked perfect for me. Super simple!!!

I suggest instead of using Yellow cake mix use Yellow Butter Cake Mix. The yellow butter cake mix give the cookie a texture that closer resemble the gooey butter cake.

These cookies are DELICIOUS! I have served them three different times in one month. My suggestions - 1) make them about half the suggested size since they're so rich, 2) cook them for longer than suggested, about 17 minutes even for the smaller size, 3) ENJOY!

I keep finding more reasons to buy these cakemixes! Even if you are a 'from scratch' gal like me, there are wonderful recipes here for their uses and this is primo! The cream cheese helps to 'disguise' the cakemix taste. I used Pillsbury plus classic yellow. I had no problems rolling them but I just use my cookie scoop and drop them into the bowl of 10x sugar and roll them. No sticky mess; I do my snickerdoodles that way too. These are hard to tell if done if doing on an airbake sheet. Airbakes generally cook longer anyway. Anything with cream cheese is going to look lighter anyway so I did them for 14 on airbake and they could have gone 1 min. longer but I let them sit on cookie sheet for about 5 min. They don't stick to sheets at all. They taste really rich. Endless possibilities. Am sure they look real pretty when made w/chocolate cakemix and rolled in the sugar. **If one is having fits, I can't see why you could just give up and throw in some chips and make a drop cookie out of them.

These cookies are the best! You can subsitute a chocolate cake mix for a delicious chocolate version. My dad doesn't like sweets but he couldn't stop eating these. He wants these for his birthday instead of a cake. Also make sure you chill the dough for about 30 min before rolling in the powdered sugar.

Sad to say, but these were not anything speical. They were okay. I would not bother to make them again. I would use the cake mix for a cake and could make much better use of cream cheese. They were easy.

I had no trouble whatsoever molding these cookies. I just used my cookie scoop and dropped them into the powdered sugar, then rolled them around a bit. I started with the l T. scoop, which makes l inch cookies, then changed to the 2 T. scoop. Also had to adjust the timing. Micky