Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
These Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are the best you’ll ever make. Combining the ease, and soft, chewy texture of cake mix cookies with the sensibilities of cookie bars, every square has the perfect texture and a ton of chocolate chip cookie goodness!
We love the ease and soft, chewy texture of cake mix cookies. We also love the simplicity of cookie bars. So, we decided to roll it all up into one delicious chocolate chip cookie bar recipe that’s easy, delicious, and has the perfect texture. This is a recipe that always has everyone coming back for more!
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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Limited Ingredients: It only takes four simple ingredients to make these cookie bars.
- Easy: All you have to do is mix, press, and bake. That’s it!
- The Perfect Texture: Because these are made with cake mix, they’re so soft and chewy, but they still hold their shape well.
- Delicious Flavor: These cookie bars have a flavor that’s equal parts cake and cookie, so they’re sooo good.
🛒Ingredients
We’ve made this list to help you save time on your next trip to the grocery store. You can find the full amounts needed in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post.
- Boxed yellow cake mix
- Butter – melted
- Large eggs
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips
🔪 How to Make Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
This is a quick overview of the steps needed to make this recipe. You can find the full instructions in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- Combine the cake mix, butter, and eggs in a large bowl. Then, fold in the chocolate chips.
- Then, fold in the chocolate chips.
- Spread the dough evenly into the baking dish and bake until set.
- Cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Then, cut into bars and enjoy!
🥄 Equipment
- Large mixing bowl
- 9×13 baking dish
🥫 Storage
Store leftovers at room temperature for up to 5 days. For longer storage, wrap individual bars in plastic wrap and freeze them for up to 3 months in an airtight, freezer-safe container.
Bring the cookie bars to room temperature before serving.
Serve With
These bars are a little bit cookie and a little bit cake, so they’re perfect with a glass of milk or a cup of coffee or tea. We like to top them with whipped cream from time to time, as well.
These also make a great dessert after an equally simple meal like our garlic butter chicken and rice, sheet pan lasagna, or easy chicken tetrazzini.
💭 Tips
- Mix your ingredients until just combined. Don’t overwork the dough, or your bars will get too dense.
- Be sure you use fresh cake mix. Expired cake mix can have an off flavor and will almost certainly be flat because the leavening agents are too old to work effectively.
- Any boxed yellow cake mix works well for this recipe. You could also use white or vanilla cake mix.
- Be sure to wait a full 10 mintutes before slicing your bars. They need time to fully set so they hold their shape.
⁉️ FAQ
Do you have questions about this recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
Cake mix cookie bars are a cross between cookies and a cake. They’re made with boxed cake mix with added eggs and butter to create a bar with the texture of a cookie bar and a flavor that’s a combination of cake and cookie.
You can add anything to a cake mix cookie bar that you would to a cookie. Choclate chips, baking chips, candies, and nuts all work well.
Two things generally lead to flat cake mix cookie bars. First, if your cake mix is out of date, the leavening agents won’t work well, if at all. Second, overworking the batter forms excess gluten which contracts as the bars bake, creating tough, dense, and flat bars.
🍽 More Recipes
If you love the ease and delicious flavor of baking with cake mix, then you have to check out our other cake mix recipes. Try our strawberry cake mix bundt cake, cake mix orange creamsicle cookies, or strawberry cake mix brownies.
🧾Recipe Card
Want to make this recipe? Print the recipe card below, or pin this recipe, so you can find it later.
Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Equipment
- 9×13 baking dish
- large bowl
- Hand mixer
Ingredients
- 15.25 ounces yellow cake mix
- 5 tablespoons butter melted
- 2 large eggs
- 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 9×13-inch baking pan with non-stick cooking spray; set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, mix together the cake mix, melted butter, and eggs until well combined.
- Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Scoop the batter into the prepared and spread out evenly edge to edge.
- Bake at 350F for 20-25 minutes until set.
- Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then cut into bars.
Disclaimer
Any nutritional data I provide is an approximation and actual dietary information can vary based on ingredients and proportion sizes.
