These 20-minute red velvet cake mix cookies are soft and easy to create with only 4 ingredients!

I was wary of cake mix cookies for years. I kept worried they wouldn't taste like homemade cookies.

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Cake mix—this recipe uses a 15.25-ounce package. Many major brands have those-sized cartons. If the box is near in size, you may make the dish as is—it's forgiving.

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Cookie scoop - Scooping dough with a cookie scoop or ice cream scoop is easy. Linking to my recipe-specific one.

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After scooping the dough onto the baking sheet, softly press a couple more chocolate chips on top to make your cookies beautiful.

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Pudding-infused cake mixes make cookies even softer. This Betty Crocker brand is popular.

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Any cake mix works with this recipe! Chocolate, vanilla, Funfetti, Spice Cake, Lemon, Carrot Cake, Cherry Chip, Devils Food, Strawberry.

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Mix it up with different add-ins! Sprinkles, m&ms, chopped candy bars, chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, toffee chips, peppermint chips, andes mints.

Mixing the dough ahead of time and freezing it into balls makes these cookies even easier.

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