Cherry Cookies
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!
Servings: 30 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
Butter: When it comes to Cake Mix Cookies, salted or unsalted butter can be used, as the cake mix will have a little salt in it. However, I've found that salted butter will result in superior flavor.
Make Ahead Tips: These cookies SO easy to prep ahead of time! Your cookie dough can be made ahead of time, then stored covered in the refrigerator up to 2 days prior to baking your cookies.
How to Store: After your 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.
Cookie Variations: Want to change things up a bit? Go for it! Here are a few of my favorite tasty 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!
