Baking Spree start

I've been meaning to make cookies for a while now, but rather than normal cookies (I know it's easy to make cookies from scratch), I thought, why not venture outside the box and make cake mix cookies? It's been done before, I won't say it's very original, but it's interesting to see how cake mix can be done, cookie style.

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The ingredients were all there: Box of cake mix, about 2 tbsp of cream cheese (optional), 2 eggs, add in walnuts and any other stuff you want in the cookies... could use choc chips too... and then melted butter... some recipes call for 1/4 cup (you could use regular oil), but I usually adjust that to less. Just mix it all!

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I like putting nuts into my cookies... chocolate chips work well too, but nuts make it seem just a tad healthier. Yea right, healthy cookies, defeats the whole point of cookies.

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So after dumping the whole lot of ingredients into a bowl and mixing it well, grab a ball of it.

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Roll in icing sugar, which will be your best friend after making this, because the balls are going to be sticky.

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Aw look at them, so cute. Flatten them out with your fist and then you're ready to put them into the oven~ I set mine to 180 degrees and didn't bother with timer or anything. I just took them out when I thought they were done. About 10-15 minutes I assume.

From 06.12

And they are done! Sprinkle with more icing sugar, because icing sugar should be your best friend by now. I tried this using chocolate cake mix and blueberry muffin mix... blueberry muffin mix turned out a bit of gooey mess because there's a sachet of blueberry jam included... once I put that into the mix, it became way too gooey, it was quite hard to form it into balls. Once again, icing sugar came to the rescue.

 And I eat my cookies with cream cheese smothered on top of it. People give me disgusted looks when I do that, but hey, it's like cream cheese icing on top of cookies, except I didn't bother making cream cheese icing (which involves more icing sugar anyway, eating it straight is much healthier). I like my cookies unhealthy ok, so don't judge. As for the cookies themselves, they were like a cross between hard cookies and cakes. It's weird. But good.