How to Make Cake Mix Snickerdoodles How to Make Cake Mix Snickerdoodles

ISABEL FLORES: Laddie, did you know that we have a master baker in our studio?

LADDIE SPRINGER: NCC Food reporter Danyell Monk joins us in the studio with a tutorial on how we can get baked.

DANYELL MONK: Isabel, Laddie, as you know the cookies I bake are a favorite for many around the NCC newsroom. Now I’m revealing my recipe so everyone at home can make some delicious cake mix snickerdoodles. First you’ll need to gather your ingredients: a box of white cake mix, two eggs, a quarter cup of vegetable oil, three tablespoons of sugar and one teaspoon of ground cinnamon. One you have all that, preheat your over to 375 degrees. To start the actual baking, start by cracking your two eggs into a mixing bowl. Keeping up with the wet ingredients, add your quarter cup of vegetable oil into the mix next. Finally, you can dump in your cake mix and then mix these ingredients with an electric mixture. The consistency should look something like this once combined. Now that the cookie dough itself is complete, you’ll want to line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Next take your three tablespoons of sugar and one teaspoon of ground cinnamon and mix them together on a plate. After you’ve washed your hands, start rolling your cookie dough into one inch balls and then roll them in the cinnamon sugar mixture on the plate. After that you can place the prepared dough balls onto your lined baking sheet. Once you’ve done this process to all of your dough, you can place your baking sheet into the oven. The key to this recipe is making sure you don’t over bake your cookies. They should be baked no longer than 12 to 13 minutes, depending on your oven.

FLORES: Wow! Fortunately, Danyell was cool enough to bring us some cookies to taste.

SPRINGER: Let’s inhale one of these puppies. This is pretty good!

MONK: So the great thing about these cookies is you really can use any type of cake mix to make them. Like, of course, here I made snickerdoodles. But you can make one with a chocolate cake mix. There’s a really great lemon recipe that you can do and add a lemon drizzle to it. Any kind of cake mix that you can get, you can make into a cookie very easily with that same recipe. Just change out whatever, you know, either what you rolled it in, what add ins you add to it. Yeah, super simple.

FLORES: No, this is really good. And I mean, the sugar is just amazing. It’s a beautifully topped on there. I mean, it’s such a good cakey consistency, too. And I’m not a big cookie person. I think it’s amazing.

SPRINGER: Yeah usually snickerdoodles for me, the cinnamon taste is maybe a little bit too strong. Danyell Monk, you’ve mastered the craft of providing a soothing cinnamon taste we’ll say.

MONK: I’m glad to hear that you guys are enjoying it. Like I said, like the big thing with these cookies, to have that cake like texture is do not overbake them. When you pull them out of the oven, they are going to look undercooked. They always do. But as you can see, they’re perfectly cooked.

SPRINGER: Thank you so much Danyell.

FLORES: Thank you so much.