Cake Mix Fudge Crinkle Cookies

How to Make Cake Mix Crinkle Cookies

It’s no wonder everyone loves these easy crinkle cookies. They are a cinch to make, are bakery-beautiful to look at, and are moist and fudgy to devour. Here are the basic steps it takes to make crinkle cookies. Follow the recipe for all the specific directions, so your cookies will be picture-perfect and totally delicious:

Mix and Chill the Dough

Mix the dry cake mix, oil, eggs, and vanilla with a spoon. Cover and refrigerate the dough for an hour to make it less sticky and to help the cookies bake with their characteristic cracks.

Shape and Roll the Dough

Shape portions of the cake mix chocolate crinkles dough into balls. Use a spoon or small ice-cream scoop to make them all the same size, ensuring they will all be done at the same time when baked. Roll the dough balls in powdered sugar and place the balls on a cookie sheet. Don’t flatten the balls—the oven will take care of that. Since the dough contains raw eggs, which can harbor bacteria that can cause food borne illness, discard any remaining powdered sugar used for rolling the balls.

Bake and Cool the Cookies

Bake the cookies until the edges are set. Let them cool on the cookie sheet a minute to allow them to set up for easier removal from the sheet. Any longer than a minute may make them more difficult to remove. Cool them completely on a cooling rack.

Cake Mix Crinkle Cookie Variations

Chocolate Crinkle cookies are a favorite classic everyone loves. With a change or two to the basic dough, you can make entirely new cookies to surprise your family or friends with. Try any of these simple variations:

Swap the Sugar: Instead of rolling the cookie dough in powdered sugar, try granulated sugar, coarse white sparkling sugar, or even colored sugars.

Swap the Cake Mix: Use another flavor of Super Moist™ cake mix and change the flavor of your box cake crinkle cookies. We’re partial to lemon, carrot cake, or red velvet.

Color the Dough: If you’re using a white or yellow cake mix, you can color the dough for your favorite team for a game day party or for the holiday you’ll be serving them. Before refrigerating the dough in step 1, add a little food color gel or paste and mix the dough until it’s evenly colored.

You can also try any of these other scrumptious crinkle recipes that are top-rated by our fans:

Gluten-Free Chocolate Crinkles starring gluten-free Bisquick,™ will be welcomed by those that are sensitive to gluten without having to sacrifice any flavor or texture.

Molasses Spice Crinkles weave all your favorite fall spices into an intoxicating crinkle cookie recipe that’s perfect for the fall or winter.

Chocolate Mint Crinkles boast a double-hit of peppermint in the chocolatey cookies, with the addition of peppermint extract in the scratch cookie dough and minty, candy cane -striped candies on top.