Easter Cake Mix Cookies

These Easter Cake Mix Cookies are loaded with pastel sprinkles and M&M’s, folded into a delicious cookie dough made with cake mix!

Easy Easter Cookies

Cookies or cake, cookies or cake … with Easter Cake Mix Cookies, you don’t have to choose! With Easter just over a week away, this Cake Mix Cookie Recipe is perfect to share with friends and family.

That’s because kids and adults alike will love these scrumptious treats! Needless to say, if you’re a fan of cookies, cake — or birthday cake goodies — you have to try these!

This festive dessert is full of pastel sprinkles and M&M’s. They’re moist, soft, chewy, and taste so good with a glass of milk or a mug of coffee!

Ingredients for Easter Cake Mix Cookies

All-Purpose Flour
Boxed Yellow Cake Mix
Baking Soda
Kosher Salt
Unsalted Butter
Granulated Sugar
Light Brown Sugar
Large Egg
Vanilla Extract
Easter M&Ms
Easter Sprinkles

You could use another flavor of box mix if you’d like. However, I find that white and vanilla tend to taste a little “off” and prefer yellow mix for these cookies.

How To Make Cake Mix Cookies

1. Sift together the flour, cake mix, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl and set aside.
2. In a large bowl or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream together the softened butter and both sugars until light and fluffy.
3. Add the egg and beat for 1 minute on high, then add in the vanilla. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
4. Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until combined.
5. Fold in the M&M’s and sprinkles with a rubber spatula.
6. Cover the dough and chill for at least 2 hours.
7. After chilling, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and use a medium cookie scoop to measure the dough into balls.
8. Roll the dough between your palms to create tall balls of cookie dough and place them about 3 inches apart on a parchment-lined cookie sheet.
9. Press some additional M&M’s into the tops of the balls and bake for 10 to 12 minutes.

These were fun and easy Easter cookies! The cake mix gives them a unique dough-y texture.

– Amy S.

How To Enjoy Easter Cookies

Of course, frosting is optional. For the record, I wouldn’t judge anyone for pairing these cookies with my Chocolate Buttercream Frosting to make sandwich cookies!

Brunch, lunch, or dinner – they can be enjoyed at any gathering. You can also stick a few in the kids’ — or grown-ups’ — Easter baskets.

Want to make these for a different holiday? Simply switch out the sprinkles and M&M’s to match the season!

More Easter Recipes

• Cadbury Mini Eggs Cookies – Uses my 5-star Copycat Levain Chocolate Chip Cookie dough!
• Creme Egg Dirty Soda – A gourmet-style drink topped with whipped cream and a Cadbury Creme Egg!
• Resurrection Roll Recipe – A tangible way to teach the Easter Story to kids in a fun, edible way!
• Cadbury Egg Brownies – Made with pantry staple ingredients!
• Bunny Bait – A fun, festive snack mix everyone will enjoy!