These 5-Ingredient Cherry Cookies might just be one of the EASIEST desserts you’ll ever make! Infused with sweet cherry flavor and rich white chocolate chips, these soft and chewy cherry cookies are bursting with sweet flavors! Not only are they love at first sight… they’re also love at first bite!
Cherry Cookies
Trust me, everyone will be attracted to the captivating charm of these dazzling cookies.
With a sweet cherry flavor and rich white chocolate chips wrapped up in every bite, what’s NOT to love?!?
One reader writes: "Very good! My kids were eating them as fast as they were cooling off!"
With this recipe, you’re about to discover that using a box of cake mix is the ultimate shortcut for creating perfectly soft and chewy cookies… the EASY way!
Just like when you make these White Chocolate and Lemon Cookies, these Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies, and these Strawberry Mix Cookies, too!
But you don’t stop there. Oh no!!
Because then you add in the secret ingredients: a playful cherry Jell-O mix and dreamy white chocolate chips. With these ingredients added to the mix, you just know that you’ve found a cookie that will make you instantly famous!
No kidding, these cherry cookies are always in high demand no matter the occasion. They’re the perfect sweet little treat for Christmas, Easter, and Valentine’s Day… or for anytime you want to a cookie that will be the star of the show!
So grab your cake mix and cookie sheets… and get ready to make some fast friends in the kitchen!
Here’s what you’ll need to get baking…
Cherry Cookies Ingredients
It takes just a few simple ingredients to make the BEST cherry white chocolate cookies!
- White Cake Mix (Vanilla Cake Mix can be substituted.)
- Cherry Jello Mix
- White Chocolate Baking Chips (Just like we use with these White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies.)
- Eggs
- Butter (Avocado Oil, Vegetable Oil or Canola Oil can be substituted.)
With just 5 ingredients, these cookies truly are one of the BEST Easy Valentines Cookie Recipes and Easy Easter Dessert Recipes ever!
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Believe me, baking up a batch of these white chocolate and cherry cookies is going to be so easy!
Here’s what you’ll do…
1. Mix the cake mix, Jello powder butter and eggs in a large bowl as directed.
2. Then gently stir in the white chocolate chips with a large spoon.
3. Chill your dough in the refrigerator.
4. Once chilled, go ahead and form your cookie dough into balls, before baking the cookies in the oven.
5. Then… don’t miss my SECRET tip in the recipe card for ensuring pretty finished cookies!
6. Once your oven has preheated, bake your cookies in the oven, then cool.
Then… dig in, devour, let the cookie monsters loose, and ENJOY!
Of course with Cake Mix Cookies Recipes, one batch is rarely enough. So repeat these steps as necessary… until every last cookie monster craving in your home has been satisfied! 🙂
Scroll down for the printable recipe card with detailed, step-by-step instructions.
Make Ahead Tips
Cherry cookies recipes like this is SO easy to prep ahead of time! Your cherry cookie dough can be made ahead of time, then stored covered in the refrigerator up to 2 days prior to baking your cookies.
You can make your cookie mix last even longer when you follow my easy tips for How to Freeze Cookies!
How to Store Cherry Chip Cookies
After your cherry white chocolate cookies have baked and completely cooled, they will last well simply stored at room temperature for up to 3 days, covered in an airtight container. That makes these cookies ideal make ahead Christmas cookies.
Cherry Cookies Variations
Want to change things up a bit? Go for it!
Here are a few of my favorite tasty cherry cookies variations…
Frosted Cherry Cookies: Suzy writes: “I frost them with vanilla frosting – soooo good!” Or try this dreamy Buttercream with Cream Cheese Frosting, too!
Jell-O Cookies: Easily change the flavor by swapping Cherry Jell-O for another fun flavor!
Strawberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies – Skip the jello mix, and swap the cake mix for Strawberry!
Cherry Cookies Recipe Reviews
Here’s what your frugal friends are saying about this easy cherry cookies recipe…
One reader writes: “Very good! My kids were eating them as fast as they were cooling off!”
K.J. writes: “Family favorite.”
Teri writes: “I tried it and everyone loved them.”
Emilee writes: “Came out great!”
Jeneh writes: “Made these last weekend!! Everyone loved them and so easy!!”
Kaylynn writes: “A favorite!”
Dawn writes: “These are not only delicious, but such a pretty color!!”
Christie writes: “So good and soft! YUM!”
Adrienne writes: “Delicious.”
Tracy writes: “Really works, and yummy.”
Betty writes: “This is such an easy cookie recipe. I love that you use cake mix. Great for the holidays!”
Kimberly writes: “Perfect cookies. I let them cool a few minutes then shook on powdered sugar.”
Shayna writes: “Good with vanilla frosting on top. Chewy.”
Marcie writes: “Super easy to make. I frosted with cream cheese frosting and added sprinkles. So pretty and easy to make.”
Heather writes: “These are easy and delicious. Have done with other flavours too.”
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Cherry Cookies
Ingredients
- 14.25 ounces Betty Crocker White Cake Mix, (If using a 15.25 oz. box, increase butter to 1/2 cup, Vanilla can also be substituted)
- 3 ounces Cherry Jell-O
- 1/3 cup Melted Butter, (Vegetable or Canola Oil can be substituted)
- 2 large Eggs
- 1 1/2 cups White Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Gather your ingredients.
- Add Cake Mix and Jell-O powder to large mixing bowl, and whisk together.
- Then add Butter and Eggs to same bowl, and mix with hand mixer or stand mixer until well combined.
- Stir in 1 cup of White Chocolate Chips with large wooden spoon, and set remaining 1/2 cup of chips aside.
- Cover dough and chill in refrigerator for 1 hour.
- After dough has chilled, preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line large baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Roll cookie dough into 1 1/2 tablespoon sized rounded balls and transfer to cookie sheet.
- Then add 2 – 3 additional white chocolate chips on top of each cookie dough ball. (This will allow for a pretty finished cookie.)
- Bake on center oven rack for 7 – 13 minutes, or until done. (Note: Bake on the shorter end of the time range for non-stick cookie sheets & longer end of the time range for aluminum cookie sheets.)
- Remove from oven and allow to cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes.
- Transfer cookies to wire racks to finish cooling, and ENJOY!
Notes
- Frosted Cherry Cookies: Suzy writes: “I frost them with vanilla frosting – soooo good!” Or try this dreamy Buttercream with Cream Cheese Frosting, too!
- Jell-O Cookies: Easily change the flavor by swapping Cherry Jell-O for another fun flavor!
- Strawberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies – Skip the jello mix, and swap the cake mix for Strawberry!
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What a fun and fantastic cookie recipe! The pink color is so inviting!
The color really is quite festive!!
Bookmarking this recipe! Love how you have simplified this recipe with just a few pantry ingredients. Maybe cherry and a lime one for red and green for the holiday cookie tray!
I love your idea to make both cherry and lime Christmas cookies… so fun!
How clever to use jello! Wonderful easy cookie for the holidays.
The jello really is a fun baking hack.
I love cherry cookies! These look delicious and super easy to make. I’m looking forward to making these for the holidays. Thanks for sharing!
They really are crazy easy to make. I hope you like them.
What an amazing color. I love how easy these cookies are to make!
I agree. The color makes them so fun!
Meravigliosi questi biscotti, grazie!!!
Grazie mille, buona giornata tesoro!
I’ve used jello in cakes and other baked goods, but I don’t think I’ve ever used it in cookies. What a fun idea! I love the presentation, too. This would be a great way to mix up the holiday cookie tray this year!!
These cookies do have such a fun pop of color… and they are simply sublime.
I need to make these for the holiday season! They look so pretty and yummy!
Cherry cookies are such a fun flavor to add to the Christmas cookie mix!
You see a lot of chocolate or nut cookie recipes but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one for cherries – this looks delicious, Heidi, thank you!
These cookies really do add some irresistible variety to traditional Christmas cookie baking!
Comme ces cookies sont beaux et à la cerise, j’aime beaucoup
Bonne soirée
Merci beaucoup, ils sont vraiment très savoureux!