Here is an easy recipe for lemon crinkle cookies using a doctored cake! These cookies are super delicious and amaze you with the different flavors you can make using a cake mix. With some folks having a busy lifestyle, there is no time for measuring ingredients and these cookies will be a great addition to your recipe collections. There are so many mix-in variations you can even make a new cookie every time with any flavor.

Lemon cookies rolled into powdered sugar baked to make the pretty snow! Cookies are made via @Whats Cookin Italian Style Cuisine.comPhoto byClaudia Lamascolo

Lemon Crinkle Cookies made with a cake mix! Photo byClaudia Lamascolo

In addition to being easy any brandcake mix works! Whether you get a generic brand or that special cake mix you prefer, these will be great. Today we are trying a lemon cake mix and they were delicious! Great for parties, gift-giving, and certainly those cookie exchange get-togethers during the Christmas holiday. You can make all different flavors in half the time baking all from scratch!

Doctored Cake Mixes are a fun easy treat and perfect for teaching children to bake and help in the kitchen for a fun family project. During any holiday baking season, these can be also sprinkled with coordinating colorful candied sprinkles to make the theme a festive look. There is a list of optional mix-ins after the recipe below.

Crinkle Cookies Recipe (or any cake mix flavor you prefer!)

• 1 - box 15.25 ounces of any brand of lemon cake mix
• 1 8-ounce tub of frozen and thawed whipped topping
• 2 eggs
• powdered sugar around 2 cups
• see the list of mix-ins below

Easy Instructions:

1. Mix the cake mix (any of your choice in flavor) with the eggs and thawed whipped topping. Freeze this dough wrapped for 1 hour.
2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
3. Roll the dough into balls then in powdered sugar place on a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes at 350 degrees.
4. The cookies should be stored in an airtight container after cooling.

Optional: (mix in 1 cup of the following:)

1. chocolate chips
2. coconut
3. nuts
4. raisins
5. craisins
6. dried fruits
7. maraschino cherries
8. chopped candy bars
9. funfetti sprinkles

More Easy Cake Mix Recipes:

Cake Mix Funfetti Dip

Cake Mix Banana Cake

Cake Mix Lemon Cheesecake Bars

Cake Mix Blueberry Cake