Cake Mix Snickerdoodles are soft, thick and puffy, basically your dream snickerdoodle.
You'll never want to make these cinnamon sugar coated cookies from scratch again.
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Yellow Cake Mix Cookies
Some of the best dessert recipes on this site start with a yellow or white cake mix.
These include Kentucky Butter Cookies, St. Louis Style Gooey Butter Cake and Gooey Butter Cookies.
If you're a fan of cinnamon, also try Red Hots Cookies, which have a lovely pink tinge and a mild cinnamon flavor.
Cake Mix Snickerdoodles Ingredients
- A box of yellow cake mix (or white)
- Flour
- Two large eggs
- Cream of tartar
- Canola oil or vegetable oil
- Sanding Sugar
- Ground Cinnamon (I like Vietnamese for its punch)
How to Make These Cookies
- Pour cake mix, flour, cream of tartar, oil and eggs--one at a time--into a large mixing bowl.
- Stir until ingredients are incorporated thoroughly.
- Your dough should be tacky to the touch but not sticky.
- Roll in cinnamon-sugar mixture.
- No need to chill this dough, roll into balls using a cookie scoop or a teaspoon.
- Bake on a parchment lined baking sheet, 12 cookies at a time.
- Let cool on a wire rack before moving.
A note about the cake mix and flour. If you're using a smaller cake like I did, 13.5 ounces, you'll need to add ½ cup of flour
I used a #40 cookie scoop, which holds 1.6 tablespoons of dough.
Pro tip: you can reuse the same piece of parchment paper over and over again.
Recipe Notes
Don't forget the cream of tartar, it's crucial for this recipe.
If you don't have sanding sugar for rolling the cookie dough balls, use granulated sugar or turbinado sugar or demerara sugar.
What Are Cake Mix Cookies?
Cake mix cookies are made using a box of cake mix and other ingredients, which turns the box mix into cookie dough instead of cake batter.
In fact, be sure to ignore the ingredients listed and the directions on the back of cake mix box.
You're making cookies, not cake!
The texture of cookie dough made from a boxed cake mix is similar to play dough, really.
If you were making cake using a cake mix, you would also be adding a cup of liquid, such as water or milk.
That extra liquid gives you the loose cake batter texture
What Does Cream of Tartar Do for Snickerdoodles?
Cream of tartar is key to making puffy, tangy snickerdoodle cookies.
This is a powdered acid, which will help your cake mix cookies rise and puff up. It will give your snickerdoodles a tangy taste as well.
Cream of tartar is also an ingredient in making your own baking powder.
Storage/Make Ahead Instructions
You can freeze this raw dough or freeze baked snickerdoodles for up to three months.
Wrap in wax paper or plastic wrap and then tuck into an airtight container.
Be sure to mark the name of the recipe and the date on the package.
You probably won't remember when you made them.
More information on how to freeze raw cookie dough and how to freeze baked cookies.
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Recipe
Cake Mix Snickerdoodles
Snickerdoodles made with a cake mix are fantastic and so quick and easy. You'll never make snickerdoodles from scratch again.
Ingredients
- A box of yellow cake mix (or white) (13.5 ounce)
- ½ cup all purpose flour
- Two large eggs
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- ½ cup canola oil or vegetable oil
- ¼ cup sanding Sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (I like Vietnamese for its punch)
Instructions
- Pour cake mix, flour, cream of tartar and oil in a large mixing bowl.
- Break eggs one at a time and add to the bowl.
- Mix until thoroughly combined.
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Pour sugar and cinnamon in a shallow bowl or plate.
- Portion dough using a #40 cookie scoop or a teaspoon.
- Roll each cookie ball in the sugar/cinnamon mixture.
- Bake 12 cookies at a time on a parchment-lined cookie sheet at 350 for 12 minutes.
- Let cookies rest on cookie sheet for a minute or two before moving them oto a wire rack to finish cooling.
Notes
You can use a white cake mix if that's what you have.
Don't leave out the cream of tartar. Your results won't be the same.
I prefer to use sanding sugar for cookie coating but if you don't have sanding sugar, you can use granulated sugar instead.
These cookies are soft and puffy and will stay that way unless you overbake them. Remember that cookies continue to bake for a minute or two o the cookie sheet after you remove them from the oven.
Set a timer so you pull the cookies out of the oven at the right time.
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Nutrition Information
Yield 36 Serving Size 1Amount Per Serving Calories 101Total Fat 4gSaturated Fat 1gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 3gCholesterol 10mgSodium 110mgCarbohydrates 15gFiber 0gSugar 8gProtein 1g
This nutrition information is approximate. I am not a registered dietician.
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