Cake Mix Cookie Bars – These lazy cookie bars are impossibly quick and easy to make! Â Transform yellow cake mix and chocolate chips into super soft, decadent, cookie bars!
Hooray for super simple, soft, and chewy cookie bars!
I can’t tell you how many time these cake mix bars have literally saved my life! Â Ok, maybe not my LIFE, but they’ve definitely saved my behind a time or two when I needed treats, and I needed them now.
Like that time your kiddo comes home from school and announces they forgot to tell you, but they signed up to bring treats to the class party….TOMORROW.
Always keep cake mix around, I’m telling you!
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This week these bars have been a lifesaver in the form of something to do with the kids!
They love making these. Â I love that it keeps us inside, in the air conditioning.
The beauty here is that you can use any candy your heart desires!
We always have chocolate chips around, so that’s what we went with for this post.
They’re really, really, beyond good with butterscotch chips, M&M’s, chopped Butterfinger candy bars. You name it!
You know how much I love Butterscotch if you’ve checked out my Butterscotch chip cookies. Â The flavor that always gets my seal of approval first!
In a nutshell, these cookie treats only take a handful of ingredients to make – and you probably already have most of them in your kitchen, begging to be made!
Enjoy!
~Nichole
Cake Mix Cookie Bars
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x13 inch baking dish with non stick cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl stir together the yellow cake mix, eggs, melted butter, and vanilla until well combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Scoop batter into prepared pan (batter will be very thick) and press down evenly into the pan using a spatula, or your hands.
- Bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown around the edges. Allow these bars to cool completely before cutting.
Notes
Simple recipe, delicious, a real crowd-pleaser! I recently won a picnic dessert contest with this recipe. They smell wonderful and look appetizing. I can’t wait to try them with different combinations of cake/chips/candy.
I make all the time and this time 1/2 chocolate chips and 1/2 Carmel
Yummy! These are easy and delish! Making 2 batches in different flavors for our road trip coming up. Theres a bunch of us and cant wait to pull these out!!
This recipe is so easy to make and is absolutely delicious. I can eat the whole pan. I mistakenly read to add one cup of chocolate chips instead of 2 cups. It was still delicious. This is definitely a keeper
Just tried this and it was so yummy and so easy! Thank you for a great recipe 🙂
I was looking for a recipe that used a yellow cake mix and came across this one. I had all the ingredients so I whipped it up. Waiting for them to cool as I fend off the “wolves”, LOL.
I made these and they were awesome. The first day they were more “cakey” but after sitting overnight they were exactly like a regular bar cookie, more dense in a good way. You would never know they were made with a cake mix. Making another batch today. Highly recommend!!!
In oven now and I used 3 different chips and coconut too I will let you know how it goes ?
Great & Easy Recipe! I doubled the vanilla and added a cup more chocolate chips, for an even more savory taste. But just so great for a throw together dessert. Thank you!
These are so easy to make and absolutely delicious! Will make again and again 🙂 Thank you so much!
So yummy, easy, quick, so glad I found recipe! Thanks!
Delicious , so easy. Will defiantly make again.