Bready or Not: Maple Krispy Cookies [uses cake mix]

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If you need a cookie recipe that comes together in five minutes, this recipe for Maple Krispy Cookies is perfect!

Bready or Not: Maple Krispy Cookies

I love to highlight cake mix recipes every so often for a couple reasons. First of all, doctored cake mix can produce really tasty desserts. Second, it’s an ingredient that is cheap and accessible to people on a tight budget.

Bready or Not: Maple Krispy Cookies

Third, it can be used as a fantastic shortcut in recipes like this, where everything comes together in a matter of minutes.

Bready or Not: Maple Krispy Cookies

I used a French Vanilla Betty Crocker box for these, but any kind of white or vanilla mix should do. You want a good base to infuse with maple flavor.

Bready or Not: Maple Krispy Cookies

My husband described these cookies as “maple krispies in cookie form.” (I do have a maple krispies recipe. It’s also included in my Sweet Maple cookbook.)

Bready or Not: Maple Krispy Cookies

These cookies end up with a lovely, fresh maple flavor which does a good job of masking the undeniably chemical taste of cake mix. Plus, the cereal pieces give each cookie a lovely, light crunchiness.

Bready or Not: Maple Krispy Cookies

 

Bready or Not: Maple Krispy Cookies [uses cake mix]

These cookies use doctored cake mix and crisp puffed rice cereal to bake up convenient, delicious cookies.
Course: Dessert, Snack
Keyword: cake mix, cookies, maple
Author: Beth Cato

Ingredients

  • 18 white cake mix or vanilla
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter melted
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 teaspoons maple flavor
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/4 cup puffed rice cereal like Rice Krispies

Instructions

  • Preheat oven at 350-degrees.
  • In a large bowl, stir together the cake mix, butter, egg, maple flavor, and vanilla extract. When those are just combined, carefully stir in the cereal, trying not to crush it.
  • Use a teaspoon scoop or spoon to dole out dough onto a cookie sheet. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes; also to set on sheet for about 10 minutes, then move cookies to a rack to finish cooling. Store in a sealed container.
  • OM NOM NOM!