Quick Cookies

With two boys you never know when kids (or how many) are going to be knocking on the back door. I try to keep ingredients for a quick batch of cookies for after their bike riding or skate board sessions. Here are our favorites! --- Deanna

Cake Mix Oatmeal Cookies
2 ½ cups Quaker Oats
1 cup sugar
1 cup oil
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 box yellow cake mix

Mix ingredients together. Roll into balls. Bake at 350 degrees.


Cake Mix Double Chocolate Cookies
1 box devil’s food cake mix
½ cup softened butter
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
6 oz. chocolate chips

Add ingredients in order listed. Mix. Drop spoonfuls on a cookie sheet and bake 10 minutes at 350 degrees.


Candy Bar Cookies
1 roll chocolate chip cookie dough
2 Snickers candy bars

Press cookie dough into a greased 9 x 13 inch pan. Cut up pieces of candy bars on top. Bake according to time and temperature on cookie roll. Cut into squares.


Quick Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 Duncan Hines White Cake Mix
3 medium eggs
½ c. sugar
½ c. oil
1 (6 oz.) pkg. chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients together until smooth (except chocolate chips). The batter will be very stiff. Stir in chocolate chips. Place by tablespoon on cookie sheet. Bake only until lightly brown. Keep in airtight container.

Variations: This recipe is easy to change by changing the type of cake mix. Use spice mix with raisins, chocolate cake with peanut butter chips, yellow cake with M&M’s, etc