So I have had a super adult-ish day.
And I feel like someone should take notice.
I mean, when you do totally adulty things, don’t you want to tell someone? No?
Well, I made dentist appointments today without even having the dentist call me and remind me…which is like major adult.
I also signed a few permission slips. Which, I am going to admit is something I dreamed about doing as a kid…I would literally have daydreams about how I would sign my name on permission slips when I grew up. I didn’t have many friends.
I changed a light bulb. Which happens to be super annoying. Not the whole screwing it in part, but the whole shopping for the correct light bulb part. I mean HOWMANYLIGHTBULBSARETHERE?!?!
And I even went against all my primal instincts and answered the door when someone rang the doorbell. They were just people selling religion, but still, I answered the door instead of hiding in a corner holding my breath until they left.
Apparently all these things are kind of expected of normal adult humans. Which I have never claimed to be, except that weird month about 3 years ago where I decided to try and make the phrase “I’m a grown-ass woman” part of my regular vernacular. It’s a time I like to forget.
Alas, I did also watch The Bachelor..and ate cookies for breakfast today too…
So maybe I’m not totally adult.
Don’t tell my kids.
Speaking of cookies for breakfast, you need to make these. They are freaking amazing. Delicious. Easy. Perfect.
Strawberry Gooey Butter Cookies.
All you need is some cake mix, cream cheese, butter and an egg. Oh yeah, and a little powdered sugar.
Mix the batter up. It’ll be thick.
I chilled mine for a bit because the dough gets kind of sticky…then I I rolled the dough into balls and coated them in powdered sugar!
Place them on a parchment lined baking sheet…
And bake them until they are just set. You want these to be soft cookies…
Then eat them. So so good!
Now hop over to Confessions of a Cookbook Queen and check out the Chocolate Strawberry Brownies she made with Strawberry Cake mix! The frosting, oh mah gah.
Strawberry Gooey Butter Cookies
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makes about 24 cookies
Ingredients:
- 1 (8 oz) block cream cheese, room temperature
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 egg
- 1 box (18.25 oz) Strawberry Cake Mix
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
Instructions:
- In your mixer cream together the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add egg and beat until combined.
- Turn mixer to low and slowly add in your cake mix. The dough will be thick.
- Refrigerate dough for about a hour or so, just enough so it’s not quite as sticky. Also, the colder the dough is the puffier your cookies will be.
- When dough is chilled preheat oven to 350°.
- Line your baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place. powdered sugar in a small bowl
- Roll dough into balls about 1 inch in diameter, then roll in powdered sugar.
- Place about 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheet and bake for approx 10 minutes until centers are just set.
- Cool on wire rack
Notes:
adapted from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen
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Ah these look delicious, and so pretty. I love the idea of making them with cream cheese!
Shelly,
These sound amazing! So glad to have found your blog! I love that you used cake mix, I’m a huge fan of cake mixes! 🙂
Mackenzie
You and Kristan make my day. Yeah, just like Clint. Only without the gun, just pounds of sugar! OK, now my lightbulb confession. I had a lightbulb in the toilet area of my bathroom that lasted FORTY YEARS!!!!!!! Not making this up. When it FINALLY bit the dust I carefully took it down, dusted it off (forty years of dust) and read it was a long-life bulb (100 watts) made by the Fuller Brush Co. I called the president or at least as high up in the company I could, to personally thank him and ask the company to send me several cases — so I would NEVER, ever change another light bulb. Guess what? They no longer make them. Of course. Why would corporate America want to make our lives easier. So I did a google search for “long-life light bulbs”. Found some on Amazon. Yea Amazon! Maybe they will last twenty years? Wish me luck.
Breakfast cookies for president!!!!
such pretty pink cookies!
Who cares what the taste like, they are SO PRETTY! 😉
Yes, your day is packed with adult activities. 😉 Definitely need to announce that to the world….I definitely would do the same. These cookies are so pretty. I’ve never tried using a cake mix for cookies (yet) but I really love how your cookies turn out. I bet these are perfect for breakfast, too.
love to win this one
hey can a different flavor cake mix be used,such as lemon or orange
Sure! They would be great!!
this is so festive! i love the pink color on them 🙂 also – i love the font choices for your text on the photo – i know, i’m a nerd, i notice things like that lol
These looked so good I ran to the store to get the cake mix. They did not disappoint! Now I must send them to work tomorrow (the ones left anyway) to save myself.
They sound very yummy!!! Do you think they could be pressed into a pan for brownies/bars???
I love Gooey Butter anything. I sent Confessions of a Cookbook Queen a recipe similar to this. I change this recipe up depending on how I am feeling. Around Christmas we do Chocolate cake mix or Red Velevet with White Choclate Chips in it or Orange cake mix with white chip too. They are so good:) Now for a Nutalla ones. Hmmmmm….. Might be my next baking project. Love you site by the way:)
Making dentist appointments always feels super grown up, as does picking up dry cleaning. Whenever I have to chaperone my students on a field trip I usually freak out internally at some point by silently screaming, “Who left me alone in charge of all these middle schoolers!”
My son Max and I make these cookies, they are his favorite! The only thing he doesn’t like is that they’re pink! He always wants these for his bday snack, but he has a lot of aniexty over them being pink! We add in the batter 1 teaspoon almond extract and 1/2 bag of white chocolate chips. And if I have time I will drizzle melted white chocolate on top. Super yummy! Thanks for sharing and just in time for Valentines!
Seriously love your blog! I was stuck in traffic for 3 hrs the other day and your website was the only thing that saved me from pulling my hair out and banging my head against the window! I would look around at the other people sitting in their cars looking so distressed and was busting up laughing reading your postings! Lots of people had a look of concern for me, probably thinking I lost it!
You might like these cookies I just made the other day http://tahnycooks.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/strawberry-white-chocolate-cookies/
That’s so funny! Love the addition of white chocolate! I will have to try that next time!
I love me some gooey butter cake cookies! You are too funny!
omg these look so good! My kids will be all over these!
I am loving the cute pink color, will work perfectly for my niece’s birthday parties.
Oh I just love that they are PINK! Cute and fun all rolled in one 🙂
I love cake mix cookies and these look SO good! Love the pretty pink, too. Great recipe!
I made strawberry cake mix cookies about this time last year, but not with cream cheese. Great thinking!
I totally call my mom bragging and wanting recognition when I do something adult (and then I usually ask her to book a few appointments for me because being an adult is exhausting). And I don’t know why, but I feel a need to hold my breath when strangers knock on the door and I’m hiding from them 🙂
These look like a cookie that I used to love as a kid, so I’m totally loving you right now (not that I’m not loving you when you’re not making these cookies…)
These look delicious and so easy! Perfect for Valentine’s Day:)
~Connie
I know I’m SO not an adult because I can’t stand making doctor’s appointments. Like…at all. Ever. Maybe my mom still makes them for me. 😛
And it’s BECAUSE you’re an adult that you can eat cookies for breakfast. WIN.
Oooh I am LOVING all the strawberry treats floating around the blogosphere today. Love this recipe 😀
Well, aren’t you a smarty pants? I have a red velvet version of these going up next week. But strawberry…man, those are pretty! 🙂
Made these strawberry cookies last night and they were absolute heaven, I did make a couplfe of additions after they were baked, i added a cream cheese frosting and fresh sliced strawberries on top. OMG were they delightful!!!
I hate making appointments. Of any kind. That is the worst adult responsibility ever. Pretty much.
I will never be cool enough to be a grown ass woman. But grown ass woman breakfasts are overrated anyhow! These cookies are right up my alley! When teachers put me on the Valentines day cookie list, they get cookies like these! 🙂
Here all this time I thought there was something very wrong with me & my whole avoidance of answering the door thing. Unless it’s kids! I’ll answer for kids! But if it’s an adult, especially an adult with a clipboard, I know it’s not gonna be good.
Such pretty cookies!
Mmm love these! Just in time for Valentine’s Day!
I just tried to reach through my screen to grab one of these and it didn’t WORK!!! DARN it!
” I made dentist appointments today without even having the dentist call me and remind me”…wait, you can CALL to make dental appointments?!? 😉 Seriously, why is calling to make those appointments such torture? I’d almost rather GO to the dentist than call to make the appointments.
These look incredible! I pinned them and am thinking about making them for Valentine’s Day.
One question, if you don’t mind. . .how did you set up a template for your recipes? I always type them straight into the post, but they always look kind of messy.
oh I so want to try those but with chocolate mix, yummy sounding and baking is an adult thing, kids should not be allowed to use the stove alone;p
I’m ashamed to say, I’ve tried the grown ass woman phrase too. I’m not cool enough to pull it off.
Love these cookies!!
Why ARE there so many lightblubs? I have had nightlights that need to be replaced since….. forever ago and guess what, I’m way too lazy to dig through the different bulbs.
These look fun and delicious!
LOVE cake mix cookies! These would be so great for Valentine’s Day. They look just perfect!