Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies

Strawberry cake mix cookies are as easy as a homemade cookie gets! One bowl, six ingredients, and you end up with soft, chewy, pretty pink cookies that are perfect for everything from Valentine's Day to a baby shower to a random weeknight.

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• ❤️ Why this recipe works
• 🗒 Ingredients
• 🍓 Recipe tips
• 🎉 Variations on recipe
• ⏲️ How to store
• 🍰 More cake mix recipes
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

You know I love making completely homemade from-scratch recipes. And I have no shortage of homemade cookie recipes on my website.

But every so often, you need a quick cookie fix with minimal ingredients. And cake mix cookies are the perfect solution. Especially when you're craving a specific flavor. Like strawberry.

These strawberry cake mix cookies are some of the easiest cookies ever. And they're packed with sweet, yummy flavor that everyone will love. If you're more of a lemon person, you can try my lemon cake mix cookies, too.

Serve them as an afternoon snack treat or make them for a bake sale, Valentine's Day, or a girly baby shower.

❤️ Why this recipe works

Minimal ingredients are needed: when you bake with cake mix, you omit the need for ingredients like flour and leaveners. And with strawberry cake mix, you don't even have to add additional flavoring!

Butter and oil are the keys: though cake mix recipes usually just call for vegetable oil, these cookies call for both oil and butter to add rich flavor, as well as moistness for extra soft cookies.

No special equipment needed: this is a one-bowl recipe and doesn't require a stand mixer or even a hand mixer. This makes it easy for anyone to make and super easy to clean up when you're done baking!

Optional lemon juice makes the flavor even brighter: I wanted these cookies to be as easy as possible, so that's why I made the lemon juice optional. But if you have lemon, add it! It doesn't add lemon flavor to the cookies, but just makes the strawberry flavor pop.

🗒 Ingredients

Here's everything you need for these strawberry cake mix cookies (be sure to view the recipe card at the bottom of the post for ingredient amounts and full recipe instructions):

• Box of strawberry cake mix: I show you how to make these cookies with either a 15.25 oz box or a 13.25 oz box
• Salt
• Unsalted butter
• Large egg
• Neutral oil like: canola or other vegetable oil
• Freshly squeezed lemon juice: optional, but recommended for making the strawberry flavor pop
• Frosting: optional for topping- you can use store-bought or homemade.

🍓 Recipe tips

• Cake mix box sizes have been shrinking (really!), so check your box before you start. The recipe is written for a 15.25 oz box, but if yours is 13.25 oz, drop the butter to 5 tablespoons and the oil to 2 ½ tablespoons (this is also written in the notes section of the recipe card). The dough should be soft but scoopable.

• You can make these any size you want, but I recommend a #40 cookie scoop (about 1 ½ tablespoons). Uniform size means uniform baking and a cookie scoop makes forming these cookies super quick and easy.

• Once you scoop the cookie dough, I recommend flattening the dough balls slightly before baking. A gentle press with your palm is all they need.

• Remove the cookies from the oven when the edges look set but the centers still look slightly underdone. They will keep cooking on the hot pan for a minute or two after you take them out.

• Let them rest on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes before moving them to a metal rack to cool completely. They're fragile when hot, but firm up nicely as they cool, making them easier to move.

• Enjoy the cookies as is or frost them. Make your own buttercream frosting or use a simple store-bought frosting. I went with vanilla here, but, of course strawberry, would be tasty, too. Or even lemon!

• And add the sprinkles of your choice to fit any occasion, of course!

And enjoy your little bites of strawberry heaven!

These have the consistency of cookies (thanks to the addition of butter!) and all the flavor of strawberry cake. And the ease of boxed mix baking.

Does it get any better than that?

🎉 Variations on recipe

Of course, the ease of these is part of the appeal of them! But since the recipe is basic, there's lots you can do to make them your own. Here are some ideas:

• Fold white chocolate chips into the batter
• Fold dark chocolate chips into the batter
• Add sprinkles to the cookie dough for a funfetti effect
• Add freeze-dried strawberries for even more strawberry flavor
• Add a little more lemon juice and some lemon zest for a strawberry lemonade cookie
• Add coconut to the batter
• Top cookies with a cream cheese frosting
• Make them sandwich cookies with frosting or strawberry fluff in the middle
• Dip half of each cookie in melted dark chocolate or white chocolate

For another fun and unique strawberry treat, try my strawberry brownies!

⏲️ How to store

I recommend storing these cookies in an airtight container at room temperature. When stored properly, they should keep fresh for about 4 days.

If you're stacking the cookies, place a piece of parchment or wax paper in between each layer so the frosting doesn't stick.

🍰 More cake mix recipes

If you love easy baking shortcuts, check out all my boxed mix recipes. In the meantime, here are some of my favorite cake mix recipes:

If you have a box of pancake mix, try my pancake mix cookies!

If you need a cookie that's packed with fun flavor and uses minimal ingredients, I highly recommend these strawberry cake mix cookies!

They just just one bowl and six ingredients and result in a stack of soft fruity pink cookie.

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