Easy Chocolate Candy Cookies

These easy chocolate candy cookies are super chocolaty & packed with M&Ms or your favorite chocolate chips. They start with a boxed cake mix but you’d never know and taste totally homemade! The best part is they go from bowl to mouth In less than 20 minutes! 

Chocolate Candy Cookies

It’s National Dessert week and I couldn’t imagine anything better than a chocolate cookie filled with an overabundance of chocolate. When I get a craving for sweets, chocolate is always first on my list. I know I’ve made plenty to satisfy that craving like my Kahlua Hot Chocolate Cookies, Dark Chocolate Doughnuts and my Chocolate Magic Cake. But these chocolate candy cookies take the cake (er, cookie) for being the easiest. A lot of steps are skipped by using a premixed cake mix as the base, and they still taste completely homemade. Of course, along with all this chocolaty goodness I just had to add some more chocolate (grin).

I divided the chocolate cookie dough in thirds to try different additions. First was a batch for my grandson with peanut  M&M candies added. His first choice was any cookie with a blue M&M in it and it got his stamp of approval and Super Dog’s too!

My second batch had Dove Promises with Caramel inside. These were really good but I think they would have been even better if I could have found DelightFulls by Nestle Tollhouse, a caramel filled chocolate chip. And lastly, I just added dark chocolate chips which made them into a decadent adult treat!

When you make these be sure to hide a few for yourself because they’ll be gobbled up by all the munchkins in your house before you know it. Enjoy!

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Chocolate Candy Cookies

Prep Time

5 mins

Cook Time

15 mins

Total Time

20 mins

 

These easy chocolate candy cookies are super chocolaty & packed with M&Ms or your favorite chocolate chips. They start with a boxed cake mix but you'd never know and taste totally homemade! The best part is they go from bowl to mouth In less than 20 minutes! 

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keywords: candy cookies, chocolate cookies, M&M cookies

Servings: 24 cookies

Calories: 142 kcal

Author: Linda Warren

Ingredients

• 1 chocolate cake mix I used a dark chocolate variety
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 cup M&Ms or peanut filled M&Ms, a candy bar with caramel inside, chopped or chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 2 cookie sheets with nonstick spray.

2. Mix all ingredients together. The dough will be very sticky. 

3. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheets.

4. Bake in oven 15 minutes. 

5. Remove and let cool on cookie sheet on wire rack for 7-10 minutes then remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Nutrition Facts

Chocolate Candy Cookies

Amount Per Serving

Calories 142 Calories from Fat 63

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 7g 11%

Saturated Fat 3g 15%

Cholesterol 8mg 3%

Sodium 157mg 7%

Potassium 61mg 2%

Total Carbohydrates 19g 6%

Sugars 12g

Protein 1g 2%

Vitamin A 0.6%

Vitamin C 0.1%

Calcium 3.8%

Iron 5.3%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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