These cookies apparently went viral on TikTok. I found the clip of the video on a cooking site--I don't TikTok...yet. They are super easy to make and a fun project with young kids. The original recipe called for strawberry cake mix but my store did not have, and I don't think has ever had, strawberry cake mix. My granddaughter picked out the Funfetti mix instead. You could use the flavor of your choice--lemon, chocolate, orange, carrot. The instructions called for baking these for 12 minutes. I thought they were too soft and left them in the oven longer. They came out quite chewy instead of fluffy but were still good. I imagine the 12 minute timing was correct and they would have stiffened up as they cooled. Next time....
Ingredients:
1 box cake mix (flavor of your choosing)
1 container Cool Whip
Powdered Sugar
Directions:
In a mixing bowl, mix dry cake mix with container of Cool Whip.
Form dough into golf ball-sized balls and roll in powdered sugar.
Place cookies on parchment lined cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 12 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
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Just about everyone in Kelly’s family wanted to get their hands on what was sure to be a sizable inheritance. But Monica also discovers that one of them was trying to hide a messy love affair the older woman had discovered, and that the victim’s caretaker may have wanted revenge for enduring years of mistreatment. And just as more secrets surface and the clues begin to fall into place, Monica realizes that as she’s closing in on the killer, the killer is closing in on her . . .
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