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| Cake Mix Cookies: More Than 175 Delectable Cookie Recipes That Begin With a Box of Cake Mix | 
 enlarge | Author: Camilla V. Saulsbury
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 22656
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 230
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 1581824750
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8654
EAN: 9781581824759
ASIN: 1581824750
Publication Date: October 30, 2005
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 quick and easy May 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
These are great recipes when you are short on time but want a great looking and tasting dessert.
 Good for inspiration April 23, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
The recipes in this book are good for inspiration, as far as flavor combinations (spices, fruits) you can add to your own cookie recipes to jazz them up a bit. It would have been far more useful had it been organized by flavor of cake mix (chocolate, spice, yellow, etc.), rather than type of cookie (bar, drop, etc.).
However, be forewarned, these recipes take an already relatively unhealthy product (cake mix), and make it much worse, with added butter, sweetened condensed milk, and sugar in most of the recipes.
When you make your own cookies from scratch, you have much more control over what you put in them, and can avoid the artificial ingredients found in mixes. Also, not only is cake mix expensive, it takes up a lot of room in your pantry that could be better used for other food items.
Bottom line: Unless you are getting cake mix dirt cheap, this is a very expensive way to make cookies that quite honestly won't taste as good as homemade. If you have a lot of cake mixes to use up, you might see some recipes you like, but it really isn't any more work to make a good from scratch recipe.
Borrow from the library, or buy used.
"This cookbook is GRRRREAT! January 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have tried several of the recipies in "Cake Mix Cookies: More Than 175 Delectable Cookie Recipes That Begin With a Box of Cake Mix" and haven't found any that we didn't like. I like this cookbook so well that I bought 2 more and gave them as Christmas presents.Cake Mix Cookies: More Than 175 Delectable Cookie Recipes That Begin With a Box of Cake Mix.
 Cake Mix Is For...Cakes December 23, 2007
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am a cookbook collector and I rarely hate a cookbook. This is the exception. I am not a baker, but needed to make lots of cookies recently and browsed Amazon and found this and hoped it would make life easier. The recipes are just terrible and I have made quite a few of them. Most ended in the garbage disposal. Aside from the fact that the the cookies/brownies are either blah tasting or inedible, the cookie making routine takes longer than bake-from-scratch. The procedure called for is to dump half of the mix into the mixing bowl and combine with other ingredients for recipe THEN mix in the remaining half of the mix. HUH? The time AND energy required to try to incorporate the dry mix into the already combined ingredients is enough to send me back to my measuring cups and old timey cookie recipes. The 'Double Chocolate Brownies' (page 92) are the worst. A huge mess of almost solid dough which needs a trowel to spread out into the too large pan recommended. If you want to spend too much time and come up with losers, this is the book for you.
 A great book for your money October 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is loaded with simple recipes that all sound great! I have tried more than one of them and they have all come out fantastic. The cook times and everything in the book have been exactly correct. My only wish is that it had photos of the cookies inside the book instead of just the recipes. I think it's a great investment for anyone who enjoys baking... especially for the holidays!
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