I have to be honest, it has been super crazy banana pants busy around here for me recently. Not only have there been a million holiday things to do but I just finished taking the LSAT exam for the 2nd time, sheesh, you know the one that Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde took and got an almost perfect score, then got into Harvard Law School yeah right, yeah, that one. After not receiving the best score in the world or even close last year, I have been working with a private tutor several times a week for months, and then throw on work, and just life in general, phew, super crazy…sooo after finishing my test I couldn’t wait to start my cheat day to stress eat, but after all of that madness the last thing I wanted to do was spend an inordinate amount of time making something awesome, hence the recipe I am about to show you. I kept seeing these cake mix cookies and cake mix cookie bars popping up everywhere on Pinterest, and people lamenting about how awesomely delicious and easy these are to make so I thought, bingo, those will be perfect, and then I thought how fun and colorful some mini M&M’s added would be too. Oh my, are they ever, I’m honestly not sure I was expecting these to be as good as they are, and super duper easy peasy to make. Obviously, I shared these with my family and they absolutely loved them and no joke I think I ate half the pan –zero shame y’all they’re that good.
So, take your cake mix and dry pudding mix…
Now add the delicious mini M&M’s…
This is what your batter will look like, feel free to get a spoonful, so good…
Then pour your batter in your pan, it’s pretty darn thick y’all…
Baking up…your house is gonna smell like cake and cookies…
These are so soft and moist with the slight crunch of the mini M&M’s…
- 1 Box of Yellow Cake Mix.
- 1 Small Serving Size Box of Instant French Vanilla Pudding.
- 1/4 Cup of Water.
- 3/4 Cup of Vegetable Oil
- 2 Large Eggs.
- 3/4 Cup of Mini M&M's.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- With a handheld or stand mixer with paddle attachment, put your cake mix and pudding mix into the bowl, whisk together.
- Now add your water, vegetable oil, and eggs.
- When all are combined add your M&M's and mix until incorporated evenly.
- Pour your batter in a buttered or sprayed 9x13 pan and I baked mine for precisely 22 minutes and they were perfect.
- See, told ya it was easy 😉