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Three Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies!

Three Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies
Cake Mix, Eggs, Vegetable Oil
Cake Mix, Eggs, Vegetable Oil

I have a major sweet tooth! Every year we make a Christmas cookie box for our neighbors and friends. While some recipes are more complicated than others my favorite cookie to add to the mix are these simple and delicious Three Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies!

White cake mix is $0.79 at my local grocery store. Sometimes I mix it up in an attempt to be healthyish and I buy Sugar Free white cake mix, although this is a little more expensive at $1.45 a box. Taste wise, there is no real difference if you choose to use regular cake mix or the sugar free mix; choose the cake mix that is right for you and your budget.

Check out my recipe for these amazing Three Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies and help satisfy that sweet tooth.

Ingredients:

  • Box of White Cake Mix
  • 1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1/2 cup of sprinkles or candy (optional)

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a cookie sheet by lining it with a silicone baking sheet or parchment paper.

In a mixing bowl, combine white cake mix, vegetable oil, and eggs. Mix the ingredients with a spatula until they are well incorporated.

All Ingredients Added to a Bowl Prior to Mixing
All Ingredients Added to a Bowl Prior to Mixing
Mix until Everything is Well Incorporated
Mix until Everything is Well Incorporated

Optional: Add the sprinkles or candy to the dough mixture. Fold the sprinkles or candy into the dough, do not over mix them because you do not want them to break down.

Optional: Add Sprinkles or Candy!
Optional: Add Sprinkles or Candy!

Using a small cookie scoop, scoop the cookie dough onto the lined baking sheet. Bake the cookies at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

Dough Scooped out onto Parchment Baking Sheet
Dough Scooped out onto Parchment Baking Sheet

This recipe makes approximately 24 cookies.

Fun With Sprinkles

Sprinkles!
Sprinkles!

One of the reasons I love this cookie, other than the fact that they are delicious, is that they work for EVERY Holiday.

Three Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies with Holiday Sprinkles
Three Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies with Holiday Sprinkles

Change the sprinkle color and shapes for each holiday season. Christmas, Halloween, Valentine’s Day…really the possibility of sprinkle choices are endless.

Candy Couldn’t Hurt

Three Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies with M&M's
Three Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies with M&M’s

Have any leftover Halloween Candy? Just dump them into this cookie instead of the sprinkles to make them extra decadent. Any number of common candies would be great in this cookie: M&M’s, Reese’s, Snickers, Twix, Milkyway…I could go on an on.

One of my favorite candies to add is of course M&M’s. That candy coated chocolate bite satisfies my chocolate craving every time!

Customizing Three Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies

These cookies are great to customize for parties and holidays.

Every year I make a holiday cookie box for my neighbors and every year this three ingredient cake mix cookie makes it in! I simply add a few drops of green food coloring to the three ingredient cake mix dough and place one red M&M or larger red heart sprinkle in the center of the cookie prior to baking. These easy cookies have now been magically transformed into Grinch Cookies!

ANY boxed cake mix can be used to create different flavor combinations. Chocolate Cake Mix, Lemon Cake Mix, and Spice Cake Mix are some of my favorites! What are you waiting for?

Three Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies
Three Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies

These simple and deliciously easy three ingredient cake mix cookies are sure to be a hit with the entire house!

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Easy 3 Ingredient Banana Bread Recipe

Bananas, Eggs, Cake Mix

What do you do with those bananas that reach the end of their life? Banana Bread of course! I have a quick and easy banana bread recipe that will steal the show without breaking the bank. My three ingredient banana bread is simple and delicious.

Ingredients:

  • 3-4 Ripened Bananas (whatever you have left over)
  • White Boxed Cake Mix
  • 2 Eggs

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

In a medium sized mixing bowl, mash your 3-4 ripened bananas.

4 Mashed Bananas

Add two eggs to the ripened bananas and mix until incorporated.

Egg and Banana Mixture
Egg and Banana Mixture

Add the cake mix to the egg and banana mixture and mix until incorporated.

Bananas, Eggs, Cake Mix all mixed all together!
Bananas, Eggs, Cake Mix all mixed all together!

Grease a 9×5″ loaf pan. At this point, add the prepared banana bread mix to your greased loaf pan. Place the loaf pan into the oven and bake for 45-50 minutes.

Banana Bread Dough Ready for the Oven
Banana Bread Dough Ready for the Oven

Get Creative

This easy 3 ingredient banana bread is great on its own, but it is even better when you customize it with various pantry ingredients!

After incorporating the cake mix into the bananas and the eggs you can add a variety of items to the dough to jazz it up. Any variety of nuts, chocolate chips, berries…the possibilities are endless.

When my banana bread is fresh out of the oven I like to slather the top with butter and sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over the entire loaf. It gives each bite a cinnamony sugary deliciousness that will not disappoint you. Once you have banana bread with a buttery cinnamon sugared top you will not want to go back to the traditional banana bread, trust me.

3 Ingredient Banana Bread with Cinnamon Sugar Topping

Any cake mix can be used to make this banana bread. I generally buy cake mix whenever I find it on sale and stock pile it. The cake mix I used for this recipe was $0.76 (can’t beat that!)! This banana bread would be great with white cake, spice cake, French vanilla, maybe even chocolate; the possibilities are endless.

If you want a cheap and easy banana bread without all the fuss and mess you must try this easy 3 ingredient banana bread recipe! Happy Eating!