Cream Cheese Cake Mix Cookies

I saw this recipe on TikTok for some fun 4th of July cookies, but I was unable to find red, white and blue M&M's, so while mine were still yummy, they were far less patriotic-looking than I had hoped for. Oh well! You can change up this recipe by using other kinds of M&M's, Oreos, and cake mixes. Have fun!

Cream Cheese Cake Mix Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 vanilla boxed cake mix (preferably the kind with "pudding in the mix")
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 egg, room temperature
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 4 oz. cream cheese, softened
• 2 cups (or about 14) Oreos, smashed
• 3/4 cups M&M's
• 1/2 cup sprinkles

Directions:

1. Mix your cake mix, butter, egg, vanilla and cream cheese until combined. 
2. Fold in your Oreos, M&M's and sprinkles. 
3. Form into cookie balls and chill (freezer for 30 min or fridge for 60 minutes). 
4. Then bake in batches at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes or until you JUST start to see some color on the bottom or top. 

Marsha's Notes:

How long you bake them depends on how big you make your cookies. 

We ended up with about 28 cookies cooked perfectly in 15 minutes, but next time I might try to get exactly 24 so I can put 12 on a sheet and only bake two batches, but they might need another minute or so in the oven at that size. The cookies didn't spread very much.

For a better presentation, press a few extra sprinkles and/or M&M's into your cookie balls just before baking. That's what I did in the above pictured cookies, which is why you can see those M&M's so well.