Betty Crocker Butter Pecan Cake Mix Cookies, MImicking La Moderna Marianita Cookies

It'd been awhile since I'd baked cookies using cake mix. Betty Crocker caught my eye with the Butter Pecan cake flavor. The sale price of $1 was compelling. I tried to duplicate La Moderna Marianita pecan flavor cookies, cheap at about 68 cents for a roll of 28 cookies (6.5 ounces). Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Cherry Almond Cake Mix Cooky 2, Improved Dough Dispensing

 

Ingredients, equipment, and mixing, dispensing, and baking info for this cheery cherry almond cooky are in the  video. This recipe go-around is my second attempt at making a version of HEB's Mon Cheri Cookie. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Sweet Bakings--A Few Re-peerings

Last month, I blogged about sweet bakings, recipe undertakings spread over 13 years of blogging. Recipes I spotted on the web inspired me to experiment, not merely replicate. i came up with 28 cooky recipes and 19 cake and cake-ish recipes. ... Maybe surprisingly, I'd done several of the recipes seldom since blogging about them. A few never-agains are because a particular ingredient, usually a cake mix, is either no longer available, formulation is different, or weight is different (mostly less). Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Pt 1 Sweet Bakings--Cookies, Mostly

In the cooky-centric video of 28 items, I list my blog catalog number with the article title and finished-item image (newest at top). Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Pt 2 Cherry Almond Cake Mix Cooky, Closer Looks

This article is an accompaniment to Pt 1 Cherry Almond Cake Mix Cooky, Inspired by HEB's Mon Cheri Cookie. During the project, some items piqued me. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Pt 1 Cherry Almond Cake Mix Cooky, Inspired by HEB's Mon Cheri Cookie

HEB's Mon Cheri Cookie--it's a big hit in the household! The product inspired me to make a cherry almond cooky, which includes Betty Crocker's Cherry Chip Cake Mix, chopped maraschino cherries, and slivered almonds. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Pt 2 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Closer Looks

 

"Pt 1 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Not One-at-a-Time Dolloping" primarily describes using a cooky press to push out chocolate chip cooky dough. As presses don't gracefully dispense dough having add-ins, my method incorporates a DIY food bottle funnel. Let's look more closely. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Pt 1 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Not One-at-a-Time Dolloping

 

Cooky press users, use your press to pump out chocolate chip dough by using a DIY funnel made from the top of a food bottle. Dough scoopers and other one-at-a-time dollopers, you can reduce the tedium and repetitive travel between dough bowl and pan. Squeeze the press trigger, pinch/deposit dollop, move to another spot on pan, repeat. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Low-effort Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies

 

How low effort are these cookies? Only four ingredients, for starters. The cake mix itself conveniently includes the flour, sugar, and leavening. You mix eggs and oil together, mix in the powder, and fold in the chips. Dispense, bake, cool. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Kool-Aided Cake Mix Cookies Combo Batch

Around winter holiday season, chocolate-covered cherries tend to float into my consciousness. Another chocolate and cherry concoction has also been staring at me recently when I open the freezer: ice cream with cherries and chocolate chips. The basic cooky recipe uses cake mix, eggs, and oil. For flavor and color enhancements, I added a package of Cherry Kool-Aid and 10 drops of red food coloring. Another cooky variation is a chocolatey covered one. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Scent o' mintal Journey, Part 5, Choco Minty Sandwich Cookies

 

These cookies are actually Plan B use of remaining unadorned mint chocolate cookies from "Scent o' mintal Journey, Part 4, Choco Unadorned/Coated Minty Cookies". I had run out of melted chocolate after having coated only about one-third of my 40 cookies. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Scent o' mintal Journey, Part 4, Choco Unadorned/Coated Minty Cookies

My journey started out as intent to make chocolate-covered mint-flavored chocolate cookies. Such examples are Girl Scout Thin MInts, Hill Country Fare Fudge Mint Cookies, and Fudge Mint Cookies (Back to Nature brand). This cooky recipe uses cake mix, eggs, oil, mint extract, and chocolate chips. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Scent o' mintal Journey, Part 3, Spearymintal Choco Chip Cookies

These cookies have the chippy looks of mint chocolate chip ice cream, and avoiding overdosing the mint extract and food coloring.  Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Scent o' mintal Journey, Part 2, Nose 4 Mints N Chips

My mind percolated about making cookies that would integrate yellow cake mix, mini chocolate chips, mint extract, and blue food coloring. The info emphasizes mint oils and extracts, and research on how much additives. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Scent o' mintal Journey, Part 1, Sweetish Thoughts

I recently tried some chocolate-covered mint chocolate cookies, Fudge Mint Cookies (Back to Nature brand), recommended by a friend. Mmmm. Got me to thinking about similar minty chocolate cookies and sweets. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

EZ Mini M&M Confetti Cookies

*** 7/4/2016
Accompanying video now available at YouTube—"EZ Mini M&M Confetti Cookies"

My cake mix cooky recipe is the summer counterpart (summer-temperature tolerant) to my winter cake mix cooky recipe "Minty Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies". I wanted to bake some cookies that have chocolate that melts in your mouth, not in your hand. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Rainbow Nonpareil Cake Mix Cookies

Multicolor sprinkle decorations for packaged cookies, cakes, and cake mixes tend to more often be jimmies than nonpareils. These cookies vary from the ones I made when I used the Betty Crocker Rainbow Chip cake mix. Instead of using cake mix that already includes multicolor jimmies, I used basic cake mix and added rainbow nonpareils. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Baking Cookies with Trader Joe Cake MIx

Instead of the standard cake mix that weighs about 15.25 ounces or so to make cake mix cookies, the Trader Joe's cake mix weighed 28 ounces. This baking experiment required some improvisation that produced results that differ from my standard cake mix cookies. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

EZ Buttery Confetti Cake Mix Cookies

This recipe features Betty Crocker Party Rainbow Chip cake mix. Using butter makes the cookies softer and fluffier than using oil. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Minty Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies

This recipe uses the other half of chocolattey cake mix that I used in the choco cranberry sauce cake mix cupcakes. Also uses half chocolate chips and half crème de menthe baking chips. Read the entire article and comment there, please.