Strawberries and Cream Cookies made with a cake mix and jello. An easy cookie recipe that is bursting with strawberry flavor and creamy milkshake flavored frosting!
Don’t you just love strawberries? I love strawberries in bread and strawberry crumble, but we even like strawberries in salad.
When the intense strawberry craving hits, these cookies are quick to whip up!
Strawberries and Cream Cookies
There are one or two in our family who don’t like the texture of strawberries. But…No matter who eats strawberries in our family and who doesn’t, we all love the flavor strawberries give. We devour anything we make with the flavor of strawberry.
These Strawberries and Cream Cookies are no exception.
Can you make cookies from cake mix?
Yes! Although we love a great homemade cookie recipe, sometimes you might find box cake mixes on sale or have a spare cake mix you’d like to get creative with. That’s where cake mix cookies come in.
We love cake mix cookies because they are so versatile. You can use any flavor of cake mix you’d like!
What to Add to a Cake Mix to Make Chewy Cake Mix Cookies
These cookies are super fun because they are made with a boxed cake mix and strawberry jello. That strawberry jello just gives a huge blast of strawberry flavor. The cream cheese and butter in the cookies keeps them soft and chewy. The recipe also calls for an egg!
How to Make Cookies from Cake Mix
- In a small bowl, mix the cake mix, jello, egg, cream cheese and butter until it is all well combined. This batter will be very thick and works best if the cream cheese and butter are very soft.
- Roll the dough into about 24 balls. Make the cookies as big as you’d like them, but remember that a bigger cookie will take longer to bake.Place them on a cookie sheet and gently press down on the top of the balls to slightly flatten them. If you don’t flatten the cookies, they will stay very poofy!
- Bake at 325 degrees for 11-13 minutes. Try not to let the cookies get browned.
- Allow the cookies to rest for 3 minutes or so on the pan, then move the cookies to a wire rack to cool.
How to Make Strawberry Icing
This frosting tastes like a strawberry milkshake. It’s AMAZING.
- In a small bowl, mix together the powdered sugar and melted butter.
- Chop the strawberries into tiny pieces or chop them in a food processor for just a few seconds.
- Mix the strawberries into the powdered sugar/butter mixture to create a frosting. You may need to add a teaspoon or tablespoon of milk to make the frosting spreadable. It really just depends on how juicy your strawberries are.
- When the cookies are cooled, spread the frosting on top of the cookies.
How to Store Cookies
These cookies will keep well at room temperature for 48 hours in a sealed container. If you are going to keep them longer, refrigerate them.
Can you freeze cake mix cookies?
These cookies freeze really well! Allow them to defrost completely before opening the container. This will help the moisture stay in the cookie, preventing them from drying out.
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Strawberries and Cream Cookies
Ingredients
For the cookies:
- 1 box Duncan Hines white cake mix
- 1 small box strawberry jello
- 1/4 cup butter softened
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1 large egg
For the frosting:
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup butter melted
- 1/8 cup frozen strawberries thawed and chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
- In a small bowl, mix the cake mix, jello, egg, cream cheese and butter until it is all well combined.
- Roll the dough into about 24 balls. Place them on a cookie sheet and gently press down on the top of the balls to slightly flatten them.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 11-13 minutes.
- Move the cookies to a wire rack to cool.
- For the frosting, in a small bowl, mix together the powdered sugar and melted butter.
- Chop the strawberries into tiny pieces or chop them in a food processor for just a few seconds.
- Mix the strawberries into the powdered sugar/butter mixture to create a frosting.
- When the cookies are cooled, spread the frosting on top of the cookies.
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Jamie @ Love Bakes Good Cakes says
The color is so fun! My family is a huge fan of strawberries, so this is a recipe I need to try! 🙂
Lizzy T says
My girls loved the pink color, Jamie! Enjoy them!
Kim @ The Cookie Puzzle says
Oh my dear…..I can totally hear these cookies calling my name. They look AMAZING! I love a simple cookie and using a cake mix really makes these easy to make. I would love for you to link up at our Tasty Tuesday Link Party.
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Lizzy T says
Thank you, Kim!
liz says
i see you use jello in a recipe…do i just throw in that box as a dry ingredient? or do i actually make jello and add it that way?
Lizzy T says
Liz, just use the dry Jell-O powder. Have fun!
dina says
they look cute and yummy!
Lizzy T says
Thanks, Dina!
Kristi @ Inspiration Kitchen says
These look sssooo good! And I love strawberries and cookies!
Lizzy T says
Thank you, Kristi! I think you’d love these cookies!
Amy | Club Narwhal says
I can definitely hear these lovely cookies calling my name 🙂 I love that perfect color (and I bet I could eat the frosting straight with a spoon, despite the sweetness!).
Jessi Otey says
Oh my goodness this looks like heaven! Thanks for sharing! I hope you don’t mind that I feature this on my blog tomorrow for my Friday Favorites!! xoxo
Lizzy T says
Jessi- we would love for you to feature this! Thank you!
Julie says
Thank you for this recipe! Do you think this recipe would work as bar cookies?
Lizzy T says
Julie-
Yes! I do think you could put this in a greased 8×8 pan and bake it at 350 degrees for about 14 minutes. That is just a guess as to the time and temperature based on other recipes I’ve tried that are similar. Watch them so they don’t get too done. I hope it works for you!
Jennifer says
These look so delicious!
Lizzy T says
Thank you, Jennifer!
Ma Martin says
Hi Guys. Please think of us across the pond in good old England !Some of the ingrediants we don’t get or understand .I can’t wait to make these . But what is “Jello” . we only get wobbly blocks of jelly to melt with hot water .or packets of granuals to dissolve in hot water. What should i use ,and how much? White cake mix? Victoria sponge mix?
grams . Size of packet?
Please your recipes we need …we have endless rain!
Lizzy T says
Ma Martin- Jello is a packet of flavored granules that you add to hot water. We use one small box of Jello, which the packet says is about 85 grams. White cake mix is just a basic boxed white cake mix. The cake mix box says 468 grams. I hope that was of some help to you!
Mallory says
These look delicious! I am pinning them to my cookie board! Perfect for spring!
Lizzy T says
Thanks for sharing, Mallory!
fran says
Okay I added the stuff but in no way is it turning into dough why is there no liquid listed? Cream cheese and butter and 1 egg is suppose to wet the cake mix and jello?
Lizzy T says
Yes, the cream cheese, butter and 1 egg wets the dough just enough. Make sure the butter and cream cheese are very soft, which will make this easier to mix together. The dough will be very thick, so you can roll it into balls. I hope that helps!
Megan says
Delicious! I wonder if these would be even better with cream cheese icing. Ever tried it? Either way, yum!!
Lizzy T says
Megan- Cream cheese frosting is great on anything! 🙂 I’d definitely give it a try!
Betsy @ BPhotoArt says
Yum, so pink and tasty looking! Thanks for sharing at Happiness is Homemade 🙂
Cindy says
These cookies are so pretty. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Simple Supper Tuesday.
Roxy | Roxy's Kitchen says
These look so pretty and delicious! I love any dessert with strawberries but can’t decide if I like more these cookies or the brownie cookies yummy!
Lizzy T says
Looks like you’ll have to make both, Roxy! 🙂 Enjoy!
Ma Martin says
Lizzy darling, thanks for answering my plight! I hot footing it of to the supermarket..Hay-ho- to make Strawberry cookies….Ah! life feels good!
Lizzy T says
I hope you enjoyed them!
Emily says
I just made these for a fourth of July party and they were fantastic!!!!!! Tasted like a strawberry milkshake, my only changes were to add a little bit of vanilla extract to the frosting, using a box cake mix that already had the jello in it, ad adding blue sprinkles to the frosting. WILL make again! Thanks!
Lizzy T says
Awesome, Emily! I’m glad you enjoyed these cookies!
Bunny says
I’m going to make these for a meeting next week, but with a Strawberry Cake Mix. That should up the flavor more.
Bunny says
What kind of a cake mix has jello in it? I know that many have pudding in them, but haven’t seen any that have jello in them.
jennifer says
I made the strawberries and cream cookies today and they are really good. The only ingredient I added was 1 tsp of lemon extract to each batch which just brings out the flavor of the jello. If I make this recipe again I won’t add as much extract and won’t add any to the plain batch.
I didn’t make or add any frosting as I felt it would get messy when shipping. Also, when making the dough, I doubled the batch and used 2 separate bowls. One of the batches I did use the strawberry jello and the other batch I used just white sugar in place of the jello. I then put both batches in the fridge overnight.
when making the cookies I now had a batch of white dough and a batch of the red strawberry dough. I took a small amount of each kind and rolled into a ball. Rolled the ball in sugar and pushed down flat with a small glass on a cookie sheet. The result was so gorgeous, and I have never said that about a cookie before. half the cookie is the dark pink color and the other half regular dough colored.
So fun to look at, and the flavor of this recipe is really yummy.
Lizzy T says
Jennifer- How you changed these up sounds so fun! I love it! And I’d love to see a picture. Do you have FB? If you do, you could post a picture on our FB page. They sound so cute! Here’s a link to our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/TastesofLizzyT?ref=hl
Nadine says
These cookies were incredible. Now I know why. I had them at an event and I could not stop eating them. Super good. Really really moist and chewy in all the right ways. Thank you!
Lizzy T says
Thank you!! They are some of my favorites!
Bunny says
I’m going to make these for a meeting next week, but with a Strawberry Cake Mix. That should up the flavor more.
Alma Vorrei says
Oh my goodness these are soooo pretty!! LOVE!!
Nancy Perine says
Hello!! I had fun cruising around your website/blog. Your recipe for Strawberries & Cream Cookies caught my eye. I had everything on hand, so it was a natural to make. Had friends stop by for coffee and the cookies were perfect to have with the coffee. They wanted your recipe, of course!! They really were yummy!! Thanks for sharing!!
Kathy Serbesku says
Absolutely delicious. My 5 year old neighbor helped me make these. He was commenting on the wonderful smell. Then the frosting in his words was “superb”.
These are very easy The strawberry flavor is decadant. Thank you for sharing