Cake Mix Cookie Bars – These lazy cookie bars are impossibly quick and easy to make! 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! 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. 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. 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
I’ve made these twice now, and both times the batch has lasted less than a day in the house. This time we’re going around and handing these out to family for mother’s day. What a great recipe to help brighten people’s days! Hope you all are keeping safe and healthy!
This recipe turned out even better than I expected! What a great way to utilize yellow cake mix in a different way. Loved it!
hey these are great i made these for my mom and she loved it.
I made these using gluten-free cake mix( Krusteaz brand) and added 1 extra egg and an extra 1/4 c of oil, baking them for 23 minutes. They turned out great! I’m definitely going to make these again!
i was hoping someone had instructions for that! Thank you!
I have made these like 4 or 5 times. THEY.ARE.THE.BEST!!! My son says they’re better than the regular drop kind of chocolate chip cookies. You would never know these are from a box cake mix.
SOOO GOOD! I used 1 cup of chocolate chips in the batter, swirled peanut butter right on top, then topped with 1 cup of chopped Reece’s before baking….oooooo so yummy. Can’t wait to take them with me to my potluck!
Try chocolate cake mix and white chocolate chips!! Amazing!! Have also used white chocolate chips with cherry cake mix. Pretty awesome as well
So easy and so delicious!! I used a combo of semi-sweet and dark chocolate chips and overfilled my two-cup measuring cup. Pure deliciousness!!
I made these and did not last long in my house. We love them.
This is a great recipe! And honestly, I think it’s even better warm and gooey!