[wheelworks]

Originally Posted by Asvi

Yea i dont bake often and i have a silly question.
Can a person make cookies with store bought chewy fudge mix????????? if so, what additional ingredients i need to add if any needs to be added?? cuz usually its 1 egg, 1/4 cup water and 1/4 oil. do i need to add all purpose flour or/and butter to the mix??

Aren't there any instructions on the package? Usually when ever I make cake from premixed cakemix, there are usually instructions on what to add etc...

[Asvi]

Originally Posted by wheelworks

Aren't there any instructions on the package? Usually when ever I make cake from premixed cakemix, there are usually instructions on what to add etc...

yes there are instructions for making a fudge brownie, but i want to make cookies outta that mix, so do i need to add anything else to it?

[hijabihoodlum]

Originally Posted by Asvi

Yea i dont bake often and i have a silly question.
Can a person make cookies with store bought chewy fudge mix????????? if so, what additional ingredients i need to add if any needs to be added?? cuz usually its 1 egg, 1/4 cup water and 1/4 oil. do i need to add all purpose flour or/and butter to the mix??

you can, but they'll be relatively cake-like. if i were you, i would add another egg, omit the water, and replace the oil with butter (you can melt the butter; half a stick of butter equals 1/4 cup).

(this is just my suggestion, but if you use it and it fails miserably, i'm sorry...)

[Asvi]

thanks hoodlum..i'll try it on a few..and will let you know if it worked or not.

[zakk]

I usually make cookies from cake mix and brownie mix. I just leave out the water and keep everything else the same.

[Asvi]

Originally Posted by zakk

I usually make cookies from cake mix and brownie mix. I just leave out the water and keep everything else the same.

so you dont use butter instead of oil rite???

[zakk]

I don't, no.

[Asvi]

err..ok.....

[raatkirani2005]

Originally Posted by zakk

I usually make cookies from cake mix and brownie mix. I just leave out the water and keep everything else the same.

I didn't know you could do that...

When you make the cookie dough from the cake mix, do you have to roll it out and use cookie cutters on them, or are they drop cookies? This is so fascinating to me

And Farah, thanks for the cheesecake tips!

[zakk]

i make drop cookies. i like to add stuff in.

[fatima]

hmm zakk i tried that once (i think i read it in here that you could do that)...they didnt come out bad, they just expanded a lot and came out like weird cookie shaped cake. they tasted good, just not really the texture of cookies. is there anything special about the size of the cookie dough ball things? mine all ran together even though i thought i had made them fairly small.

i think i just suck at making cookies haha

[zakk]

oh wait, if I'm not doing add ins like nuts and stuff then sometimes I leave out an egg.

[vanillawafer]

basic recipe for cookies from cake mix is 2 eggs and 1/2 cup oil or butter. hh mentioned you could melt the butter, is that ok? because if you melt the butter in a normal cookie recipe, they won't turn out right. they'll be flat and spread out. the butter has to be soft, but I don't know in this case.

I made chocolate cookies with nuts out of chocolate cake mix (or brownie mix? i forgot) and it turned out ok. We ate them while they were warm and they just didn't taste right. But I tried them the next day and they were amazinggggg tasted so good. Normal cookie recipes taste a lot better, but if you're in a hurry or have extra boxes of cake mix around, then try it out.

[hijabihoodlum]

Originally Posted by vanillawafer

basic recipe for cookies from cake mix is 2 eggs and 1/2 cup oil or butter. hh mentioned you could melt the butter, is that ok? because if you melt the butter in a normal cookie recipe, they won't turn out right. they'll be flat and spread out. the butter has to be soft, but I don't know in this case.

usually when you make cookies you don't want to melt the butter, but i figured it would probably be hard for her to mix just half a stick of softened butter into all that brownie mix with just one egg (which is what i suggested). ideally when you make drop cookies (the kind you just spoon out in chunks onto a baking sheet) you want your batter to be pretty stiff or the cookie will spread out a lot. a good way to make sure this happens is to use dark brown sugar in a recipe that calls for brown sugar (like in chocolate chip cookies), always always use butter (not margarine), and to be on the safe side, refrigerate the dough for a little while.

asvi- i hope they turned out alright, no matter what course of action you took

cake and brownie mixes include all the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder/soda, etc.) as well as some of the wet (for example some of them contain milk powder and sugar, which in baking is technically a "wet" ingredient) so that all you have to add is water/eggs/oil (which obviously, they can't incorporate in powdered form). water adds moisture, eggs add richness and glues the batter together, and oil adds the fat that makes it taste good as well as more moisture. so when you're adapting a pre-made mix, just keep in mind what the different add-ins do.

[sally]

garlic powder...it makes EVERYTHING taste good