How to Make Soft Cookies and Cream Cookies at Home
Mix airy cake batter with tangy cream cheese, crushed Oreos, and swirls of white and milk chocolate chips, and you get cookies that hit you with buttery richness and delicate crunch in every bite. Inspired by classic cookies and cream, these treats feel uber-indulgent with that soft, chewy center and tiny bursts of chocolate—think bakery-level goodness, whipped up in your own kitchen.
Ingredients
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- 1 box vanilla or yellow cake mix
- 1 stick butter at room temp salted or unsalted butter
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 ounces cream cheese at room temp
- 2 cups crushed Oreos
- ½ cup white chocolate chips
- ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
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In a large bowl, place cake mix, butter, egg, cream cheese, and vanilla. Using an electric mixer, beat until fully combined and cookie dough is formed.
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Add in all chocolate chips and crushed Oreos. Stir these in by hand or use an electric mixer on low until just incorporated.
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Roll into cookie dough balls a little smaller than a golf ball (I use a cookie scoop) and place them about two inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet. You can flatten them very slightly if you like or leave them as is, which will result in a more rounded cookie on top.
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Bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly brown at the edges. Allow baked cookies to cool for a few minutes on the cookie sheet before removing them to cool completely.
Notes
- Here are some mix-in options for your cake mix cookies:
- Candy: M&Ms, chopped Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Hershey’s Cookies ‘n’ Creme bars, or Peppermint Patties.
- Sprinkles
- Dried fruit, such as cherries (or maraschino cherries instead), cranberries, or shredded coconut.
- Other crushed cookies like animal crackers or different flavored Oreos.
- Different flavored chocolate chips: dark chocolate, caramel, butterscotch, or peanut butter.
- Crushed peanuts or chopped pecans.
- Press mini marshmallows into each ball of dough before baking.
- You can also customize this cookie recipe and use a different flavor cake mix, like chocolate cake mix, white cake mix, or Devil’s Food.