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Big Fat Cookies

8 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 5 ounces pkg. yellow or devil's food cake mix
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup semi - sweet chocolate chips

Make it step by step

  1. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Grease cookie sheet with shortening. Prepare the cake mix as directed on the package except reduce the water to 1/2 cup. Drop the dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 3 inches apart onto the greased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with 1 cup chocolate chips. Bake in 375 degree oven 6 to 8 minutes or until almost no impression remains when a cookie is touched lightly. Cool on cookie sheet 1 minute, then lift the cookies to rack with pancake turner. Variation: Gumdrop Cookies - follow recipe for Big Fat cookies except, in place of the chocolate chips, use 1 cup small gumdrops. Cut the gumdrops in half so they won't sink to the bottom and stick. Makes about 30 cookies

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Adapted from Foodista by Anonymous, under CC BY 3.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.

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