I was rooting around in my pantry, looking for something yummy to make the boys for their 3-day weekend and I came up with these Cake Mix Oatmeal Cookies. Guys, these are honest-to-goodness SCRUMP-TIOUS. My 13 year old promptly pronounced them his favorite cookie EVER. Using a cake mix makes them super so easy too!
I’ve make this previous cake mix cookie bars recipe plenty of times and was excited to to see how the extra oatmeal texture would work out – I feel like it adds major bonus points to the cookie! Some people like thin crispy oatmeal cookies – and there’s something to be said for a crispy cookie…. But these aren’t it. I like my oatmeal cookies LUMPY. These are soft and lumpy and crispy and chewy all at the same time – PERFECT.
Gather the following – and cut yourself some slack if you don’t have the yellow cake mix – really, any vanilla-ish flavored cake mix will work about the same in this recipe.
- Yellow Cake Mix
- 2 1/2 Cups Regular Oats (I don’t think Quick-Cooking work as well)
- 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 3/4 Cup Oil + 1/4 Cup Water
- 1 1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 Cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Get your oven preheating to **350** and spray down a couple cookie sheets with baking spray (I love-love-love the kind with flour in it – I use Pam baking spray and it even smells like vanilla!)
Mix the first 3 ingredients in a large bowl. In a separate bowl whisk the eggs, oil and water and vanilla together and add to the dry ingredients. Stir in about a cup of chocolate chips. I used Semi-Sweet knowing that this was likely going to turn out pretty sweet already (Cake Mix + Sugar = Plenty of Sugar!) and I was 100% right on that score -the semi sweet chocolate was the PERFECT contrast.
Using a cookie scoop or tablespoon, drop onto the baking sheet in rounded spoon-fulls. This recipe makes about 3 dozen medium cookies, but if you made them smaller they’d make about 4 1/2 dozen.
Cook for 12 minutes – or until the edges are golden brown.
These cake mix oatmeal cookies are just a mouthful of love when you add a glass of milk – my kids have been giving me adoring glances all weekend because of them. 🙂
Cake Mix Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- Box of Yellow Cake Mix
- 2 Cups Oats Quick-Cooking work as well
- 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 3/4 Cup Oil + 1/4 Cup Water
- 1 1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 Cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and spray down a couple cookie sheets with baking spray
- Mix the first 3 ingredients in a large bowl.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs, oil and water together.
- Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.
- Pour in the vanilla extract and about a cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips.
- Using a cookie scoop or tablespoon, drop onto the baking sheet in rounded spoon-fulls.
- Cook for 12 minutes - or until the edges are golden brown.
