The dough came together in 4 minutes. I timed myself when I made these yesterday and even I was surprised at how speedy these are to make. Four minutes?!?!? You’ve got to love that! Even in the Christmas craziness, that seems doable. And because it uses cake mix, your kitchen doesn’t get quite as trashed as mine seems to when we’re pulling out 5 other ingredients.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\n\n1 stick butter, at room temperature
\n1 egg
\n1 teaspoon vanilla extract
\n1 (18-ounce) box Devil’s Food cake mix<\/div>\n
<\/a>* Don’t have 2 hours? No worries! You have options!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Option A – <\/strong>Drop the batter in spoonfuls and bake straight away. It’s the holidays, people, there’s not a lot of extra time, right? Right. So if you need cookies pronto, go for it. Bake with abandon, I say. I suggest the spoonfuls because the batter is sticky.<\/p>\n I will say that the shape of the cookies wasn’t stellar – they were a little free form and a bit more jagged. I say rename them “Yummy Lumps of Coal” and call it good. If you’re trying hard to impress, though, consider B or C.<\/p>\n Option B – <\/strong>If you don’t mind the mess, roll the sticky batter.<\/p>\n Option C – <\/strong>Actually let the dough chill and roll it into balls.<\/p>\n I had my husband taste test cookies made using both Option A and Option C, and he couldn’t tell the difference.\u00a0 He said that A may have been slightly better but C had a “springier” texture. When I looked at him and said, “Do they taste different?” he replied, “Nope.”<\/p>\n You can also roll the balls in confectioner’s sugar prior to baking. I stopped doing this, though, because they seemed sweet enough and it didn’t seem necessary. I did sprinkle a little on top once they had cooled.<\/p>\n Here’s the weird thing about these cookies. I don’t like cream cheese. As in, don’t like it AT ALL. But I love these cookies. Go figure. If you’re not a cream cheese person, do not be scared off. Give them a shot. You may be as surprised as I was.<\/p>\n These are great to leave out for Santa, or for cookie exchanges when you don’t have a ton of time. Hope you like them as much as my family does!<\/p>\n YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: <\/strong>Quick and simple fudge recipe with just 3 ingredients<\/a>Don\u2019t miss a post! Subscribe to Mom Factually\u2019s completely safe, spam-free email list in the box in the top right corner of the page!<\/p>\n Don\u2019t miss a post! Subscribe to Mom Factually\u2019s completely safe, spam-free email list in the box in the top right corner of the page, please.<\/p>\n Please like Mom Factually on Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n You can also find MF on Pinterest<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I like Christmas cookies, chocolate and easy recipes. So it’s no surprise that I love this fast and easy recipe for Angelic Devil’s Food Christmas Cookies. They are light and chewy and offer just the right amount of chocolate and sweetness, not too little and not too much. They’re like Goldilocks cookies that way. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6114,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/6114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}