Lemon cake mix cookies are soft and chewy and only take 3 ingredients to make! Not only do they taste amazing but they are simple to make.
I love dessert recipes that are easy to make and these cookies made from cake mix are just that. Some of my other favorite easy desserts to make are these the fudgy Homemade Brownies, Jello Cookies and other varieties of Cake Mix Cookies.
Easy Lemon Cake Mix Cookies
What could be better than a delicious lemon cookie on a warm, summer day? How about a lemon cake mix cookie recipe that needs only THREE ingredients?!? Yup. I speak the truth. These easy lemon cake cookies are amazing and super simple! Just pick up a box of lemon supreme cake mix and follow this recipe and you’ll be set! Here is how to make them.
Items Used To Make Lemon Cake Cookies
- Baking sheet
- Kitchen mixer if you don’t want to mix by hand
- Small ice cream scoop
- My favorite baking mats
- Lemon supreme cake mix
Ingredients For Lemon Cake Mix Cookies
- Lemon cake mix
- Cool whip topping
- 1 egg
How To Make Lemon Cake Mix Cookies with Cool Whip
Recipe Prep – These cookies don’t take long to make, so preheat your oven to 350 degrees. I also like to line my cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat for easier clean up.
Make The Batter – First, mix the egg and the cool whip together until they have blended. Next, stir in the box of cake mix. The batter should be thick and have a taffy-like texture.
Place The Dough – Scoop about tablespoon-sized balls of dough and place them evenly on the prepared cookie sheet.
Bring Some Heat – Bake the lemon cookies for about 10 minutes and then let them cool before serving.
Tips For Making Cake Mix Lemon Cookies
- I like to use a cookie scoop when placing the cookie dough on the baking sheets. This keeps the cookies uniform so they bake evenly.
- If the bottom of your cookies are burning before they are fully cooked, try moving the baking sheet up one slot in the oven. If that doesn’t solve the problem, it’s probably time to buy a new baking sheet.
More Easy Cake Mix Cookie Recipes
- 3 Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies
- Devils Food Cake Mix Cookies
- Strawberry Lemonade Cake Mix Cookies
These lemon cookies that are made using cake batter and cool whip are so easy to make and taste amazing! Leave us a comment below and let us know how you liked them or if you made any variations to the recipe. Make sure you read the comments below to see our reader’s tips and variations for these cookies. If you decide to make them let me know – I will be over in 10 minutes with two glasses of milk! 🙂
ENJOY!
Lemon Cake Mix Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- Lemon Supreme Cake Mix
- 1- 8 oz tub cool whip topping, softened
- 1 egg
Instructions
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all the ingredients. The dough will be thick and taffy-esque.
- Drop the dough in heaping tablespoon amounts onto a greased cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Let cool on the cookie sheet for about 10 minutes.
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About the Author: Larissa is a mom of 4 boys who likes to cook and create. The former Food Contributor on Somewhat Simple (2011-12), she now shares her creative adventures full-time on her own blog Just Another Day in Paradise.
This post originally published on Somewhat Simple in April 2012
Super simple just wish I could get them to have more lemon flavor and less sticky..I baked closer to 25 minutes to make sure they were done..will try a little oil next time.
I’m sorry they didn’t turn out as well as you would have liked. I would suggest trying a different brand of cake mix to see if it has a stronger lemon flavor.
I like more lemon flavor too and I add the zest of two lemons for every box that I use… it is so much better that way and doesn’t alter the actual recipe/ consistency! It’s so good!
I can’t believe how easy these cookies are!! Thank you for such an easy and fun recipe!
You’re welcome, I’m so glad you enjoyed these!
So easy even my 12-year-old can make them. Definitely a keeper!
That’s awesome! I love it when the little ones help out in the kitchen!
These look so light and fluffy! I love the easiness of the ingredients as well!
Thanks Julie, they really are super easy to make!
Love how easy these cookies are to make! Everyone loved them!
Thanks! So glad they were a hit!
I love anything lemon! It makes me want spring so bad!
Seriously! Warmer weather is just around the corner!:)
How can anyone make something so easy hard…It’s really this simple people…Mix the three things and bake them for God’s sake.
Do you add water to the cake mix, mix, and then add cool whip, or just the mix with cool whip and egg?
My son is allergic to EGGS so is there a substitute I could use? Any suggestions would be appreciated thank you.
I don’the eat eggs, so when I use a cake mix, I don’the add them, and it comes out good!!!
1/4 cup of apple sauce can be used to replace an egg! So if you need three eggs then you would need 3/4 cup!
Mine came out to soft in middle and spread together. I dropped in large tbls on parchment . Put back in oven 2min. More and still googey for a cookie, not happy at all!
Do you make the cake batter as if you were making the cake. Meaning do I need the ingredients that the cake batter calls for or do I just throw the cake batter in by itself with the other 2 ingredients
I have made these for years. You can use any flavor of cake mix but lemon is by far my favorite.
I have strawberry cake mix and was thinking of adding white chocolate chips to it as well. Crossing my fingers and hoping they come out the way my head has pictures them to look and taste.??
They are great with strawberry cake mix too!
Love the cookies…but mine are NOT flat. They are little mountains. Help! I notice someone elsee had this problem…TIA!
Can the mixture be mixed by hand or hand mixer? I don’t have an electric mixer so I want to make sure I’ll. Be able to achieve the right consistency.
Thanks for the fabulous, easy recipe.
I mixed it by hand. It does get a little tiring, but it worked fine.
What is cool whip and what can I substitute it with? I’m in AUZ and have not heard of it!
Thank you 🙂
Cool whip is a name brand, pre-made whipped cream. So basically, you just need whipped cream.
I can not use eggs..due to family member allergic too eggs…is there something else I can USE???
Plain mayonaise can be substituted for eggs. 2 tablespoons mayo equals one egg. Be sure it is plain whole egg mayo, not the kind that uses olive or canola oil.
Opps sorry. Mayo has eggs in it. Try an eggless variety, which you can find in health food stores.
USE 1 TSP BAKING SODA FOR EACH EGG. I HAVE EGG ALLERGY AND IT WORKS
I have an orange came mix in my pantry I can’t wait to try.
That sounds good too!!!
I have an orange cakemix in my pantry I can’t wait to try!
Cake Mix Cookies
1 pkg of any flavor cake mix
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
makes 2-3 dozen – can double recipe easily
Add any one or two of following:
6 ozs mini chocolate chips or mini M&Ms
6 ozs butterscotch or peanut butter chips
1/2 cup coconut or raisins
1 cup toffee chips or chopped nuts
Preheat over to 350 degrees.
Combine ingredients in large bowl and mix well.
Drop by teaspoonful onto ungreased cookie sheet about 2″ apart.
Bake 9-12 minutes (10 chewy; 12 crispy).
I tried with lemon cake mix and did roll balls into powdered sugar.
Add lemon zest and/or 6-8 packets of TRUE Lemonade.
Can add a packet or two to confectioners sugar too.
Enjoy!
Our favorites, Chocolate cake mix with mini M&Ms
Chocolate cake mix with peanut butter chips or Reeses pieces
Yum, these sound so good and I love your different variations!!
Tried many flavors of cake mixes, orange, strawberry, lemon, caramel, pink lemonade…. They are all tasty!
How did you get them so flat? Mine are more like small cakes…
3 ingredients! right up my alley. I LOVE easy!! My 7 year old daughter couldn’t wait to help me make them….they are in the oven right now and smell sooooo yummy, can’t wait to taste them!!!! Thanks for sharing~ We are sharing them with our family at Thanksgiving Dinner tomorrow, can’t wait for someone to ask me for the recipe! It seems that EVERYONE I talk to LOVES simple recipes, too. This rocks, no one should be critisized for offering up something simple for busy moms on the go. I’m lucky I even turn on my oven at all! Go ahead and judge all you “easy” haters. 🙂 xoxo
Is ther any reason that you could not use another flavor of cake mix????I am just wondering if anyone else tried this??
I have don’t this with about every cake mix out there. 🙂
Me too chocolate is wonderful
Doesn’t turn out exactly like the picture shows, but they’re still delicious!
This is a wonderful idea. I have a grandson I am teaching to do some cooking. He is 8 and this is easy and he would be able to make them and have a blast. Seems to me he could do what ever flavor of cake he wanted, so probably chocolate (smile). Thanks for the idea. Easy is great for little ones.
I would try these if it weren’t for the Cool Whip.
Try with 1/3 c oil and 2 eggs. Works the same….
Ah, thanks for that!
Sweet I wanted to know what to substitute Cool Whip for too… We don’t have that in NZ
So a cake mix package is an ingredient? LOL
And you call that cooking too, right? Only in America….
Not everyone has time nor money to keep their pantries constantly stocked with all of the ALL FROM SCRATCH ingredients to make recipes. It’s a very nice to know that if you are trying to make something yummy (such as these cookies) and you happen to not have all of the from scratch ingredients (which can be costly I might add!) yet you do have a quick cake box- you can substitute. And yes, substituting one thing for another in a recipe is allowed and both things are still ingredients. Doesn’t matter how hard you work on it. Work smart. The end result will be the same. That’s what counts. Go America 🙂
weirdo!!
What difference foes it make how u make them ad long as they are yummy
Seriously, did your mother not teach you manners? “someone who cooks” is “someone who is rude”.
Sounds yummy…going to have to try them!
SNARKY MUCH? GEEEEZ
And only in America can someone (YOU) be SO RUDE and
not be dragged from your home. This woman is trying to make
our lives easier. Go away.
Lol I love cooking from scratch but I’ll give these a try
Thanks for this easy recipe. I made a batch tonight. Taste really good, I love LEMON.
Can you stir it up without a mixer? Thanks
Kerri,
I stir the batter with a spoon! No mixer at all, and it works great!
interesting. i haven’t heard of cookies from a cake mix and cool whip. they look yummy and definitely great for spring!
I made these and they were very good!! Although I forgot the egg!! But even without they were tasty, a bit chewy but very good!! I rolled a few in the powdered sugar and loved those too!!!
Can I substitute Egg Beaters for the egg?
wonderful for weddings, the little yellow is just the right color for spring!
about how many cookies does this recipe make?
I’ve made these twice and I love the taste, however, I burned out my mixer motor.
Am I doing something wrong? Also, there’s no way they bake in 6 minutes, it’s more like 14.
Linda,
It is tough on your mixer, that is for sure! It is just a really taffy-like mixture.
As for the baking time…as in all cookies and baking, time completely varies. I like my cookies slightly underdone. BUT my husband cooks them for longer when he makes them.
Thanks for passing your cooking time on, I always forget that not everyone likes slightly underdone cookies!
I love em lol
Linda, I stir the batter with a spoon! No mixer at all, and it works great!
In place of cool whip, can I substitute whipped cream made with the 35% cream in carton (if I follow directions to turn it into cream) … I’m really new too baking… these cookies look fabulous.
Mmmmm yummm!!!!!! Pinning!
Ooooh! Do those ever sound wonderful!! I even have the cake mix and the eggs! I think I need to go get me some cool whip – today! Thanks for sharing this!
I’ve made those cookies so many times except I roll the dough in powdered sugar. So delicious! They’ve been present at many bridal and baby showers.
How do you roll the dough to get the p. sugar on it when it is so sticky
I refrigerate the dough for at least 3 hours beforehand. The cold takes away a lot of the stickiness. Then I just drop a portion into the powdered sugar and roll it around. So, I don’t roll it in my palm like I would with a PB cookie or snickerdoodle. If you just drop it in the sugar it coats it enough that you can manipulate the dough without making too big of a mess. Hope that made sense!
Yum! I miss cake mix cookies. I used to make lemon cake mix cookies with white chocolate chips before we went gluten-free at our home. Your cookies look delicious! Thanks for sharing.
I was just wondering if I could adapt the Betty crocker gf yellow cake mix? Might be worth a try!
Do you have Celiac disease? If not, there’s absolutely zero reason to go gluten free.
My grandson has really bad acid reflux and has to take adult medication. My daughter thought she’d give the gluten free diet a try and since he lives with her, he got put on it too. She started to realize when he was gluten free he didn’t have to take his medication. The only time he had to was when he went to his dads and went off the diet. She pointed that out to him and now he’s gluten free and much better. Go figger!
Not in my experience. Gluten causes many problems, including inflammation – even of hair follicles. Read Wheat Belly – an eye opener.
Not true! I am extremely gluten sensitive but don’t have celiac as my children do!
I also am very sensitive and Do Not have Celiacs.
There are so many GF mixes on the market now that you should not be without ANY THING you like. I buy some at WalMart and others on line.
Delicious! It doesn’t get much easier than that!