Ever since my husband and I were dating, I have showered him with delicious treats. I have always heard, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach." This is 100% true. For everyone. Everyone will love you when you bring delicious food around. Cookies, cupcakes, pie, you name it, people will love you.

This became true with my husband as well. He loved my cooking and baking skills (and of course my other qualities too!). I would try to make a new recipe every couple of weeks because for 1. I love to bake and try new recipes, and 2. I had a new taste tester. This meant that I could try new recipes whenever I wanted without the guilt of eating ~~all~~ half of the batch by myself. This was good news for multiple reasons, including my pants that were somehow getting tighter...

I found myself making treats less and less as our hectic lives took over and full-time college and full-time work took its toll on my time. Its not that I did not want to bake anymore, but I rarely found the time to get in the kitchen for the couple hours that it took to make a treat and then ~~leave all of the dishes for later~~ clean up the kitchen as well.

And thus, my love of quick recipes was born. Why take longer on a recipe when you can have astounding results in half (or a quarter) of the time? Don't get me wrong. I love to go in the kitchen and try out a new recipe that has multiple steps and ~~destroys the entire kitchen~~ and takes over an hour to make. Most of the time though, I do not have the time or energy for that though. So those recipes wait until the college semester is over and I have more time to try some new things out.

These 20-Minute One Bowl Cookies are a life saver for multiple reasons! They are quick to come together (everyone can spare 20 minutes, right?), only dirty ONE bowl, and take 3 ingredients to make. What I love about these cookies is that they are chewy, flavorful, and easy to make for any party or gathering that you may have. I got the idea for these cookies from a family friend. She brought some cookies over for some family get-together and everyone loved them! I asked her about them, but thought that they would make a really good crinkle cookie (which they do!). She gave me her recipe, and here we are. If you have never made a cookie quite like this, you are missing out! I know that there are multiple recipes out there for cookies like this, but this one is my absolute favorite.

Let's get to it then!

First, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Then, get your ingredients together. I like to get all of my ingredients ready before I start any recipe so I don't have a disaster where I thought I had enough eggs, and I don't. Or I thought I had enough flour, and I don't. These OBVIOUSLY haven't happened before, but they do waste a lot of ingredients and time ~~when~~ if they do.

These cookies only take 1 cake mix, 1 8-ounce tub of Cool Whip, and powdered sugar.

Now, I know what you're thinking. Cake mix isn't really an ingredient. I know, I know. But I promise you that these cookies are amazing. And I won't tell anyone that you made these delicious cookies from only these ingredients. My husband chose Butter Recipe Yellow cake mix for these cookies, but you can choose any flavor that you would like (more on that later!)

Next, you mix the whole box of cake mix and the entire tub of whipped cream together in a large bowl. I like to mix this dough with a wooden spoon or a rubber spatula. Make sure to get all of the cake mix off of the bottom of the bowl. Also, DO NOT MIX WITH YOUR HANDS!!! I can not stress this enough! The dough is very soft and gooey and will stick all over your hands. It's a huge waste of the dough and a sticky mess!

Now at this point, you can either choose to cover and chill the dough or go straight to baking. Either way works wonderfully, but chilled dough is not as sticky. For this batch, I chose to chill the dough for 10 minutes just so it wouldn't stick to my hands and for the sake of prettier pictures. Feel free to skip chilling, just know I warned you about the sticky dough.

Now, I like to get a small pan out for my powdered sugar. Make sure that you choose a pan, not a plate (it saves your kitchen counters and floor from being covered in powdered sugar. Add some powdered sugar to the pan. I usually start with about a half of a cup and add more if I need it. Using a cookie scoop or a spoon, drop balls of dough into the powdered sugar. Roll the balls of dough around in the powdered sugar until fully coated.

And finally, place on cookie sheet 2 inches apart. I like to use a non-stick mat on my cookie sheets. The cookies seem to cook more even and it is a lot easier to clean up and take the cookies off after baking.

Bake cookies in 350 degree oven for 8-10 minutes. Baking time will differ depending on your specific oven and the size of your cookies. With a ball of dough that was about an inch in diameter, these cookies took about 10 minutes in my oven. Just keep an eye on them the first time you make them.

These cookies do not brown on the edges. They will still look pretty doughy when you take them out. The cookies continue to cook on the hot pan once you take them out of the oven. These are chewy cookies, so you do not want them to overbake.

This picture was taken right after I pulled these out of the oven. They are still a bit puffy (for lack of a better word), but will deflate and flatten as they cool. Notice the beautiful cracks in the powdered sugar...YUM!

I personally like to eat these cookies after they cool. I think they have a better texture and taste this way. Once cooled, put on a plate and dig in! This recipe left me with 20 cookies, but this ultimately depends on the size you choose to make. Sit back, kick your feet up, and enjoy!

20-Minute One Bowl Cookies

Step 1: Get ingredients together. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

1 cake mix (any flavor of your choosing)
1 8-ounce tub of whipped cream
Powdered sugar

Step 2: Mix cake mix and whipped cream in a large bowl.

Step 3: (optional) Chill dough

Step 4: Drop scoops of dough into the powdered sugar and roll into a ball.

Step 5: Place on cookie sheet, 2 inches apart. Bake in preheated oven for 8-10 minutes or until fully cooked.

A few notes!

You can choose any flavor cake mix that you enjoy. I have made these with chocolate, cherry chip, white, strawberry, butter yellow, funfetti, and lemon. All of these flavors were delicious in their own way, so pick what you enjoy!
Cake mixes do come in a variety of sized boxes. I have tried all brands of standard boxes of cake mix and they all work perfectly. No need to change amount of ingredients.
You can make these without powdered sugar, but it does add a pretty look and a yummy flavor to these cookies!

20-Minute One Bowl Cookies

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