I love to cook and I love to bake. I have always been very happy that my four year old along with my nineteen year old share my love of baking. I do secretly hope that at least one of my children will also eventually love to cook as much as I do as well.
When it comes to baking with my four year old I love being able to find recipes that he can pretty much do himself. He is always so proud of himself and his kitchen creations that I feel the less help he gets from me, the more he is going to want to explore the wonderful world of baking.
A few weeks ago we were sent the new book The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book and were super excited to give the recipes a try. To my surprise, the recipes are very simple and there are several in the book that my four year old can do with very minimal help from me.
With The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book, you’ll find that the secret to some of the tastiest, easiest, and most irresistible cookies imaginable begins with a box of cake mix. With just a few extra ingredients and a mixer, anyone can become a baking genius!
The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book from Camilla Saulsbury, winner of The Food Network’s Ultimate Recipe Showdown Best Cookie Recipe, is filled with more than 375 recipes that start with a simple box of cake mix and end with a delightful assortment of drop, shaped, bar, filled and traditional cookies. This book can make you the star of your next bake sale, family party, or holiday event!
With over 200 new recipe and simplified instructions and ingredient lists, there are cookies for every occasion including:
- Bake Sale Bestsellers
- Kids’ Favorites
- Trendsetter Cookies
- Chocolate Lovers Cookies
- Health-Conscious Cookies
Try delicious recipes like:
- Bittersweet Chocolate Esspresso Bars
- Lime-White Chocolate Cookies
- Red Velvet Whoopies
- Pistachio-Cherry Biscotti
- Banana Monkey Bars
The very first recipe we tried in this book was the Healthy Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies. Now my four year old was super excited at first when I told him it was a recipe that he could do pretty much all by himself. He would just need me to open stuff for him and of course put it in the oven. So as we get out all the ingredients he starts saying how good they will be as he is pouring the cake mix into the bowl. Then he gets to the pumpkin and decided that these cookies are going to taste terrible he just knows he will not like them…WRONG! He loves them and guess what? He can’t taste the pumpkin. No one can 🙂 So here is the recipe for that:
Healthy Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies
Ingredients:
1 (18.25 ounce) package devil’s food or chocolate cake mix
1 (15 ounce) can unsweetened pumpkin puree
Optional: 2/3 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
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| All the ingredients used in this recipe |
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350
- mix the cake mix and pumpkin puree in a large bowl with a wooden spoon until blended (dough will be stiff). If desired mix in the chocolate chips
- Drop by tablespoonfuls, 2 inches apart, onto prepared cookie sheet
- Bake 8-11 minutes or until edges are firm and center is just barely set when lightly touched. Cool 1 minute of sheets, then remove cookies with spatula to wire racks to cool completely.
VARIATION for Healthy Chocolate-Pumpkin Cookies:
Healthy Pumpkin-Spice Cookies: Prepare as directed, but use a spice or yellow cake mix and add 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice or cinnamon. If desired, add 2/3 cup chopped dried cranberries or raisins.
This above recipe can be found on page 43 in The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book.
If you are a beginner baker or advanced, I promise you will find a recipe that you are sure to love! This book would also make an awesome gift for this Holiday Season!
