4 Ingredient Double Chocolate Cookies are so easy but you’d never know! Soft and chewy, with much less time and effort thanks to cake mix! Use any flavor!
*Recipe and photos updated from November 14, 2014 — the post remains the original! (So no I am not pregnant and no longer teaching!)
So, I was looking through my recipe index the day I was making these, and when I went by my Bars, Squares and Cookies category all I saw was chocolate.
And I don’t mean vanilla, or caramel, or pumpkin, or banana based sweets that have chocolate in them. I mean full on, all out chocolate. So I clicked to see more of the bars, squares and cookies I’ve posted and all I saw was more chocolate.
Now, I’m not exactly embarrassed.
But I feel like if I was a good food blogger I would pay attention to these kinds of patterns and mix things up with some vanilla every now and then.
I mean, I also post breads, sides and dinner recipes so I guess I lose track of what kinds of bars and cookies I’ve posted and in what order. That’s understandable, right?
And besides, you all like chocolate, right?
So because “they’re double chocolate” isn’t a good enough reason not to share them with you, I’m posting the recipe for the easiest double chocolate cookies you’ll ever make today.
Now, once upon a time, I might have been too much of a snob to really use a cake mix. I always had a cupboard full of cake mixes, you know, just in case, but I would never actually use one.
But I’m a high-school-teaching, food-blogging, rather-pregnant mother of a 2 year old whose husband has been gone more hours than our child is actually awake during the week. So bring on the cake mixes.
Plus, the week I made these I had to stay late for a staff meeting and they asked me to stay late to cover for another teacher the day after.
That means I stayed until 3:30pm two days in a row, before I went back to my usual 2:15pm.
Feel free to mock me incessantly. I’ve heard it all already from my husband.
And after you do, please go make these cookies. And you don’t even have to tell anyone you used a cake mix — they’ll never even know!
I got the recipe for the cookie base from my grandma’s cookbook — it’s the same one we use for homemade oreo cookies. All I did was add chocolate chips!
See how easy they are to make!
- 2 468g* chocolate cake mixes (about 16.5 ounces each)
- 4 large eggs
- ½ cup oil
- 1½ cups chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, add cake mixes, eggs and oil. Beat 2-3 minutes until cookie dough comes together. (It comes together very easily, and there won't really be much left around the sides of the bowl)
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Roll into 1" balls (I used a 1" cookie scoop -- it makes the process even quicker!) and place 12 to a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F for 7-9 minutes, until puffed and dry-looking on top. They will settle down as they cool.
Tried these today and they came out beautifully. I am going to dip half side of them in white chocolate and sprinkle with candy cane. The others I sprinkled with powdered sugar. They look great and taste delicious. Tomorrow I am going to try them with French Vanilla cake mix…
I’m so glad to hear that!
Says 4 eggs bummer!!
Hi! Do these come out chewy and stay chewy?
They are chewy and will stay that way if properly stored. They are not too hard or too fluffy. The texture also depends on the cake mix used.
Can this recipe be halved and still come out ok? 4 dozen is a lot of cookies for my husband and I but I want to make this!
Yes, absolutely! Just use one cake mix and halve the rest of the ingredients.
Great thanks!
what kind of oil did you use?
I use canola oil!
can egg be replaced with something that is readily available
I really haven’t baked with egg replacements before so I’m not sure. Sorry I can’t be of more help!
You may try aquafaba
Seriously love that these are only four ingredients! So darn easy – that’s what I like! 🙂 And great video!
4 Ingredients and Double Chocolate? Say no more! I’ll off to the kitchen to whip these up so I can inhale them all… no shame!
It’s hard to believe these cookies only have 4 ingredients! Will be trying them for sure!
Oh i love revisiting old recipes. Glad you brought this up….these cookies look amazing!
Oh my gosh, drooling! I can’t believe these beautiful little dudes only contain 4 ingredients! Can’t wait to try them :).
These look like the perfect chocolate cookie! Love how easy they are to make!
Thanks Jessica!
Now you’ve got me craving chocolate at 6:45 in the morning! These cookies look so rich and chocolatey – I just want to gobble them up! 🙂
Haha, you mean you don’t always?? Lol. Thanks Kristine!
Four ingredients?!?!? Heck. Yes. These look SO fudge-y and delicious!
For those days when 4 ingredients is all you can handle! Lol 😉
When I look in my dessert section it is pathetic and lacking all things chocolate! I love chocolate but I guess I just eat chocolate bars rather than making chocolate desserts, haha! These look so easy to make though so I think I can swing them! They look so good 🙂
Hey there! Just wondering what cake mix you use? I have tried to make these four times now, and I can’t seem to get them to flatten out like yours! I have tried everything!! They are still good but I’m sure would be better thin and chewy! Thanks so much!!
I honestly just use store brand, usually wal mart Great Value! The brand name cake mixes have less weight so it would change the dough. I also use dark non stick pans. Hope that helps!
I just made these for my grandchildren and they are awesome Thanks
I’m so glad Gay!
YES! Simple recipe to get my chocolate fix! Those cookies looks so chewy and moist!
They are way TOO simple, to be honest! My pre-pregnancy pants are not going to be happy with me when baby comes out!
Love cake mix cookies! They are so easy and always come out so perfectly chewy and soft. These double chocolate ones sound like a dream!
Thanks Jess! Chocolate is always the right answer 😉
Love how easy these are, and they look sooo chocolatey! Pinned!
Thanks Rachel!
These cookies look so rich and delicious!
Thanks Amanda!
That’s the smart thinking we could all benefit from.
Oh my goodness, these cookies look amazing!! 4 ingredient? Count me in!!
Thanks! They’re so good!
Look at all that chocolate!!!! You should never apologize for too much chocolate..because I’m not so sure such a thing exists! These look amazing Ashley 🙂
Haha, thanks for understanding Serene!
Is there a such thing as too much chocolate? Or too much easy?? I think not! These cookies look so fudgy and rich! Haha, an extra hour is definitely a big deal. I would need chocolate over something like that too 🙂 Pinning!
In my opinion, never enough! I’m glad you agree Mary Frances!
Love chocolate (maybe a little too much) and love these chocolately chocolate cookies!
Thanks Jess!
These cookies look amazing – there is never too much chocolate! I have to literally stop myself from adding chocolate to everything I bake, because maybe not everyone wants chocolate in everything! But really, why not? Chocolate makes everything better!
Haha, I’m glad we’re on the same page! Amazingly I’ve got a few non-chocolate recipes coming up, but I really have to try hard!
Okay first – I will NEVER complain about your chocolate recipes. EVER. Second – if you searched “chai” on my blog you would think
i had a serious tea addiction problem lol. We all just have our favorite flavors, and these double chocolate cookies are perfect for all my chocoholic cravings. 😀
Jess, I totally appreciate your support. I might not even seek out a Chocaholics Anonymous group yet!
There can never be too many chocolate recipes especially when there’s double chocolate involved! These cookies look amazing!!! Soft and chewy cookies are my favorite! And with only 4 ingredients too? I’ll take that whole batch please 🙂
Thanks Kelly! I might have to make another batch soon – they didn’t last very long!
I love chocolate too!! I think it’s awesome that everything in your bars, cookies category is chocolate! And there is nothing wrong with using cake mixes. Saves time! Hope the pregnancy is going great. It’s almost time huh? 😉
Yes, soon! Too soon! Lol. Thanks Cyndi 🙂
You can never have too much chocolate, Ashley! I’m loving that these cookies are only four ingredients. They look so fudgy and delicious!
Thanks Gayle! I think the biggest problem with them is that they’re 4 ingredients…. Lol. It’s way too easy to make a batch, and then down them fresh out of the oven!
I’m completely fine with lots of chocolate recipes! 🙂 These cookies look so moist and chocolaty. I’m drinking my morning coffee right now and wishing I had a couple to go with it.
They would be perfect with coffee Amy! Thanks for stopping by!
I bet you start your day really early – so staying till 3.30 instead of 2.15 is not fun – if you promised me a stack of these I would stay late for you! 🙂
Oh – btw – did you have to share this with your high school classroom?
Haha, not TOO early Shashi… I leave the house around 8:00… and my first class starts at 8:55! So it’s a little embarrassing when a 3:30 day tires me out. But hey, I’m also 8 months pregnant! And no I definitely wasn’t sharing these… 😉