Most of my cooking posts are of the cook from scratch, home-raised, type of content. However, after living a few years of my life in a super regimented healing cycle with regards to food, I am now more in a maintenance most of the time cycle.
What I mean by that is I adhere to my super healthy eating regimen most of the time. But I also allow myself to have a bit of fun on occasion. That means that I might eat something with sugar in it once in a while. Just never more than once a week. I'll probably do a post in the future about not relying on willpower alone and blocking out allowances in your schedule, but this is not that post.
What it is is a post of absolute grocery store happenstance! The other day I was wandering our local Winco (a regional employee-owned super market), and came across this:
There was a UNICORN on the box! Of course it caught my eye! The box alone was marketed to appeal to girls who grew up with Lisa Frank sticker collections and youngins who like My Little Pony. But what drew me was the grocery store had marked the cake mix down to $0.48!
Every week I have two tabletop game nights that I participate in. One is at my house and is ran by my Cuz (He recounts our adventures and others over at his blog @sapadetzero), and the other is a D&D (Dungeon's and Dragons) campaign at our dear friend's house.
Now you might have not guessed it yet, but I love to bake. In fact, baking for others is one of the greatest joys in my life. I adore crafting comestibles and sharing them with others, and I tend to bake things and serve them at game nights.
So you better bet I snatched that Strawberry Funfetti cake mix off of the shelf!
You see, my go to in a time pinch cookie recipe is cake mix cookies. I have shared numerous cake mix cookie recipes on this blog over the years. I always have a cake mix, some vegetable oil, and two eggs in the house. Always.
What made me even more excited about the unique cake mix score was I had these in my cupboard:
I have been waiting for just the right occasion to use the funfetti chips, for they too were a frugal find. I found them for $1.47 a bag at Grocery Outlet a couple weeks ago and threw them into the cart knowing that they would be a part of game night cookie gloriousness.
Well, the not at all healthy game night treat stars aligned and I decided to go all in. Thus, the Strawberry Funfetti, Funfetti Chip Cake Mix Cookies came together. Lover's of Red dye, additives, and kitchen food science rejoice!
Because my friends, there is nothing remotely nourishing or healthy about these little cake mix cookies of refined carbtasticness, but if you love the flavor or artificial strawberries or want to go on a nostalgia tour to the nineties when everything was a fake flavor slap to your senses, then these are your cookies.
Seriously, they tasted so dang good! I even ate two of them on game night, but then again, I planned too.
And I loved every second of it. One, because they tasted fun. Two, my friends loved them, and three, I made 28 cookies for less than $2. Happy sigh......
Note time: If you can't find Strawberry Funfetti cake mix, regular funfetti (or any cake mix for that matter) will work just fine. It's just cake, oil, egg, whatever additives you want, then cookies! Be creative! Mix and match like a painter of mad creative flavors!
Strawberry Funfetti-Funfetti Chip Cake Mix Cookies
1 box strawberry funfetti cake mix
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1/2 package funfetti chipsPreheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
In a stand mixer, add the cake mix, oil, and eggs to the mixing bowl and mix until well combined.
Add the funfetti chips and turn the mixer up to aggressive mix status to combine the funfetti chips into the dough.
Roll dough into TBSP sized balls and place them a couple inches apart on the parchment lined baking sheet.
Bake for 10-11 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Don't overbake them!
Cool for a couple of minutes on the cookie sheet then transfer to a baking rack to cool completely.
Watch them disappear!
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You had me at FUNFETTI @generikat and although I workout 6 out of 7 days a week and work as hard trying to manage what I eat - there is one cheat day a week designated for my fiancé and me. Those great looking cookies would sure look nice on a plate in front of me on one of those cheat days.
LOL! That is the perfect gif for how we all looked when I set the plate of cookies on the table at game night lol lol!
And I love that you and your fiance have a food cheat day! It makes it so much easier to adhere to overall healthy self care in the food department when you know you have a day that you can eat whatever you want. I try to limit mine to a cheat meal once a week most of the time, but I think from now on I am going to call it Funfetti day!
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Sometimes the best treats are those that are not in the southeast bit good for you!! Funfetti, what a great branding!
Oh I so agree! I'm pretty sure that Funfetti isn't even technically a food, more like a flavor, but dangit if it isn't the most fun thing ever to eat ha haha!
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As soon as I saw the word I know it had to be good. Lol
It looks nice and it looks simple to make as well. I came here from ListNerds.
Ah! Listnerds is so awesome! And thank you so much! Some days simple things are totally needed!
any flavor of strawberry is sure my favorite. Cookies mixed with cake , that’s one hell of a combo . I’m sure it will be a taste bud buddy.
Yes! Cake mixes really do make some scrumptious cookies! And strawberries are glorious for sure! Well, except for maybe washing and hulling about 80 pounds of them which is something that I do every June, but I enjoy the fruits of that effort for the rest of the year so there's that lol!
Mhmm! June will soon be here before you know it . Are you looking forward to it? Lol ! Best Regards!!
Everything STRAWBERRY is good, and this is no exception to that.
Agreed 100%! Love 🍓
Thanks for stopping by!
They look quite tasty and delicious, well-done.
Thank you so much! They are pretty tasty, and if you are not paying attention you can eat like fifteen of them without noticing lol!
Those cookies look like a nice little sweet treat! I would have them with frozen custard. Enjoy them and Have a great day! 😀
YES! I love cookies and ice cream/gelato/custard! Frozen custard especially, it is so creamy! Just imagining a bit of strawberry cookie and a bit of custard has made me realize I better go get some breakfast lol!
Thanks so much, hope your day has been smashing as well!
I am not the only one then! LOL! You're welcome and Happy Sunday! 😀
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It tastes sweet with strawberries. Have you ever tried apricot with it?
No I haven't, but now I am thinking about smearing a bit of apricot jam between two of the cookies and making a sandwich lol!
My daughter would tell me to buy it too, I mean, duh, it's a unicorn!
And I think sticking to most of the time works much better than being super strict. I have to make some adjustments myself as some bad habits slipped in lately, but I know putting myself on a harsh regime won't work.
I have to tell you again, I LOVED your email formatting. It looks so appealing!
Exactly, duh is completely what my mind said after the unicorn squeal lol!
I so hear you on the adjustments, I have to give my attitude one on a frequent basis, but it's much easier and more likely to stick in all areas if I am kind to myself.
And thank you so, so much for the email feedback. I really like simple, but nicely graphic designed emails, and you are so awesome at your email composition and design, so your input makes my whole day!
Wow they look awesome my granddaughter would love these
Came from Listnerds Have the best day 😎
@generikat
Thank you so much! I know my daughter got a kick out of them lol!
Listnerds is the greatest! Hope you have a fantastic day too!
You are welcome, that is awesome @generikat
Yes it is, much appreciated
:)
Another great recipe with complete step-by-step instructions. Thanks.
And another wonderful comment! Thank you so much, feedback like yours makes the work even more enjoyable!
Once again I have to say OMG. I cannot get over how much I enjoy your posts.
Maybe it is because they are so real, down to earth and well just fun.
Cookies look great 👍
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Aww, I am so excited when I see that you have dropped by! You hit on my standard Kat operating system too, I am always myself in my posts, and there is always some sort of chaos happening around here, so it usually gets shared ha ha!
Thank you so much for the kind words, I will be by your blog later to see what you have been up to!
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More to report and talk about in the morning 😀
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