Cake Mix Gingerbread Cookies
Making soft gingerbread cookies with cake mix is the ultimate holiday shortcut! It's a quick and easy recipe that tastes homemade--nobody will guess these aren't made from scratch!
Ingredients
- 15.25 oz spice cake mix
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- ⅓ cup unsulphured molasses
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or in a large mixing bowl with an electric hand mixer), combine cake mix and flour. Mix on low speed just to combine.
- Add eggs, oil, molasses, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and vanilla extract. Mix on low speed until incorporated, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Transfer bowl of dough to the refrigerator and chill for at least 2 hours.
- Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Place a sheet of parchment paper over the round of dough and use a rolling pin to roll the dough out to about ¼-inch thickness. Remove parchment paper.
- Dust a gingerbread man cookie cutter (or other shapes) with flour and cut cookies from the rolled dough. Re-roll scraps of dough to cut more cookies. Transfer cookies to prepared baking sheet, leaving a couple inches of space in between each.
- Bake in preheated oven for about 8-10 minutes, until the edges are beginning to brown lightly. Don’t overbake!
- Remove pan from oven and let cookies cool on the pan for about 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- These soft gingerbread cookies are perfect for sharing at Christmas! Bring them to a cookie swap, add them to a cookie tray at a party, or give them as handmade gifts. Santa also loves them! :)
- Store leftover cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3-5 days.
- The number of cookies this recipe will yield will depend on the size of the cookie cutters you're using, but I generally get about two dozen.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 144kcalCarbohydrates: 21gProtein: 2gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.02gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 125mgPotassium: 142mgFiber: 1gSugar: 12gVitamin A: 21IUVitamin C: 0.04mgCalcium: 30mgIron: 1mg
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