' The unofficial name of these cookies is “On-My-God-I-Can’t-Believe-How-Good-These Taste-Are-They-Really-Made-From-A-Boxed-Cake-Mix Cookies”.
I was in a real predicament yesterday. My son’s school is having a bake sale on Saturday to raise money for Aid In Milan, a charity that helps people in need in our city. I was going to bake two loaves of sourdough bread for them, but unfortunately, something nasty got into my starter and infected it. I figured better safe than sorry and threw it all out, but that means I have to get the starter going again from scratch. Without the starter, I couldn’t make the sourdough bread. And worse, we’re out of shortening, butter and margarine (or at least in the quantities needed for baking). So what was I going to do?
I’ve seen recipes for making brownies out of a cake mix, so I wondered if it was possible to make cookies out of boxed cake mix. As you may have guessed by now, it is possible. 
This recipe (below the break) made 50 small cookies, after the obligatory tasting during the baking of them. It could easily be adapted to use with just about any cake mix out there. I’m considering trying it with a spice cake recipe and using pumpkin puree instead of oil, and sending those to my kids’ classes for their Hallowe’en parties. You can find the original recipe at AllHomeMadeCookies.com (it’s Cake Mix Cookie #2).
Devil’s Food Cake Cookies
Yields about 4 dozen cookies
1 box Devil’s Food Cake mix
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup old fashioned oats
1 /2 cup oil
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 tsp. vanilla
Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients, blending well. If the mixture is too stiff, add a little water. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes or until set. Cool 1 minute before removing from the cookie sheets.
