Easy Grinch Cookies with White Chocolate Chips

4.63 from 8 votes

Easy Grinch Cookies with White Chocolate Chips

These fun Grinch cookies are easy to make starting with a cake mix! Add white chocolate chips for deliciousness and a candy heart for cuteness to bake a new favorite Christmas cookie!

Prep Time15

Cook Time9

Total Time24

Course: Cookies

Cuisine: American

Servings: Cookies

Calories: 138kcal

Author: Chrysa

Ingredients

15.25 oz white Cake Mix 1 box
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 large eggs
⅓ cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup white chocolate chips
2 drops green food gel
red heart sprinkles

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F.
Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
In a medium bowl, combine the cake mix and baking powder.
In a bowl of the stand mixer (or large bowl with hand mixer) mix the eggs, oil, and vanilla together.
Mix the dry mixture into the wet ingredients. Drop in green food gel. Mix well.
Stir in the white chocolate chips.
Using a 1 tablespoon scoop, drop rounded balls of the dough onto your baking sheet. Flatten the dough ball with a spatula.
Bake for 9 minutes. Do not let them brown in the oven. They will firm up when cooled.
Place one heart sprinkle on each cookie top once you remove them from the oven. Careful it’s hot!
Remove to a cooling rack.
Store in an airtight container.

Notes

You can opt to make your cookies from scratch instead of using a cake mix and, in that case, I would recommend our Not Too Sweet Sugar Cookies Recipe. Then just pick up again with this recipe at the point where you add the food coloring.
For an alternative Grinch cookie, remove cookies from oven one minute before they're done baking. Place a Peppermint Hershey Kiss on top of each cookie and return to the oven for one minute. The peppermint Kisses have a fun red and white striped pattern that are very reminiscent of Whoville!

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