Strawberry cake mix cookies are soft, chewy, and made with just 4 ingredients plus a delicate strawberry lemon glaze to top them off with!
Why this recipe works
If you’ve never tried cake mix cookies, this is your sign. You’ll need 4 pantry staples items, a boxed cake mix (strawberry), eggs, oil, and vanilla extract to make these delicious strawberry cake mix cookies. In addition to that, we’ve provided a strawberry lemon glaze recipe to drizzle with, it’s highly recommended and entirely worth the little bit of extra prep!
Doctoring a cake mix is super simple. You can make anything from apple cobbler to cupcakes and poke cakes with them by adding a few special touches.
Ingredients you will need
Get all measurements, ingredients, and instructions in the printable version at the end of this post.
Ingredient Info and Substitution Suggestions
CAKE – You’ll need a strawberry cake mix, though if you’d like to try a different flavor you can easily substitute it out.
GLAZE – The glaze is made with powdered sugar (confectioners sugar), lemon juice, and chopped strawberries. You can substitute the lemon juice with water if preferred.
How to Make Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies
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- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the strawberry cake mix, eggs, oil, and vanilla together and mix well (you can use a fork or a hand mixer).
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and create 1 tablespoon cookie dough balls with a cookie scoop. Place the cookies about 2” apart on the baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes – or until the edges start to brown. Do not over bake.
- Remove from the oven and let the cookies cool on the baking sheet while you make the glaze.
- To make the glaze, blend strawberries and lemon juice together in a food processor or blender. Blend the strawberries to a puree, or leave larger chunks.
- Add strawberry mixture to powdered sugar and mix until smooth (if the glaze is too thin, add powdered sugar. If it’s too thick, add more lemon juice or water).
- Transfer cookies to a cooling rack and spoon glaze on top of cookies.
- You can serve your cookies with just powdered sugar, or layer the glaze on top of the powdered sugar. Sprinkling it on top of the glaze works as well. However you do it, they’ll be delicious!
Frequently Asked Questions & Expert Tips
You can store your cake mix cookies in an air-tight container kept at room temperature for 3-4 days.
Yes, to freeze your cookie dough, roll them into balls and place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Flash freeze until the cookie dough balls are cool to the touch and no longer sticky. Place them in a large Ziploc bag and store in the freezer for 1-2 months. Flash freezing the cookie balls will help them not stick together. To bake, remove from freezer and allow to thaw for 10 minutes, follow the same baking instructions listed in the recipe card below.
Serving Suggestions
These bright pink strawberry cake mix cookies would be perfect for a Valentine’s Day treat. Easily decorate them with sprinkles to match your themed party or holiday, or optionally dip one side of the cookie in white chocolate! We love icing the top with the strawberry lemon glaze and a sprinkle of powdered sugar, but you can skip the glaze and dust them with just powdered sugar if you’d like.
More Cake Mix Recipes
- Confetti Cake Mix Cookies
- Boston Cream Poke Cake
- Banana Pudding Poke Cake
- Peach Cobbler Dump Cake
- Cherry Cake with Cherry Frosting
- Pumpkin Cake Mix Cookies
- Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies
- Lemon Cake Mix Cookies
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Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies
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Print It Rate ItIngredients
- 1 strawberry cake mix we used Betty Crocker
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup canola oil or vegetable oil
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Strawberry Lemon Glaze
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- ⅓ cup strawberries chopped
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice or water
Things You’ll Need
Before You Begin
- Keep an eye on your cookies in the oven. You do not want to overbake these! Once they start to lightly brown on top, pull them out of the oven. They puff up nicely and taste best when they are chewy and soft.
- You can sprinkle with powdered sugar before or after you add the glaze. Either way works.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the strawberry cake mix, eggs, oil, and vanilla together and mix well (you can use a fork or a hand mixer).
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and create 1 tablespoon cookie dough balls with a cookie scoop. Place the cookies about 2” apart on the baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes – or until the edges start to brown. Do not over bake.
- Remove from the oven and let the cookies cool on the baking sheet while you make the glaze.
- To make the glaze, blend strawberries and lemon juice together in a food processor or blender. Blend the strawberries to a puree, or leave larger chunks.
- Add strawberry mixture to powdered sugar and mix until smooth (if the glaze is too thin, add powdered sugar. If it’s too thick, add more lemon juice or water).
- Transfer cookies to a cooling rack and spoon glaze on top of cookies.
- Once cooled, sprinkle with powdered sugar (optional).
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Linda Winter says
Last time I had these they were hard. Can I add something to keep them from that?
Amanda Davis says
I’m not sure what might have gone wrong as they shouldn’t have been hard. Did you substitute anything?
Jennifer Martinez says
My cookies are In the oven now. I used half margarine/ half veg oil, added white choc pieces, 1 tsp baking powder and rolled in powdered sugar and strawberrypeach jello mixture (glaze w/o liquid).
Oh my goodness!!! These cookies are amazing. Hands down the best cookies I have ever made. So light and velvety. And the sour in the glaze just sets of the sweetness of thus beautiful pink cookie. I am truly impressed. Thank you so much for thus deliciously delicate cookies.
Jill says
So good! I used a lemon cake mix because I didn’t have strawberry and it came out amazing. Everyone went back for more. Definitely will need to make a double batch next time. The cookies were so light and fluffy and the strawberry glaze was out of this world. Thank you!