Cake Mix Cookies plus Variations

I want you to know that I have never read any of those cake mix cookbooks. I don't usually use mixes enough to want to turn one into 100 different desserts. That being said, I have had a run of inspiration tonight. I started out to make cake mix cookies and decided that seeings I had just made chocolate zucchini bread for snacks yesterday, the gang didn't need another chocolate food.

Here is the basic recipe:
Cake Mix Cookies
Chocolate cake mix
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup raisins
Mix eggs, oil and cake mix in a bowl. Add chips and raisins. Drop by spoonful onto cookie sheet and bake 350 degrees for 11 minutes. Cool a few minutes and then put on a wire cooling rack.

Okay, so I went downstairs to my pantry room and looked to see what varieties of cake mixes I had. My choice was german chocolate, devils food, carrot, and yellow. I started thinking about what yellow or carrot would taste like in the above recipe. I ended up choosing the carrot cake mix. I substituted white chips for the chocolate. Presto! a new delicious cookie.
Then I took a few minutes and wrote down the following varieties for future use:
1. Yellow cake mix: add chopped pecans and butterscotch chips instead of raisins and chocolate
2. German Chocolate cake mix: add coconut and toffee chips as well as chocolate chips
3. Strawberry or Lemon mix: add white chocolate and coconut or walnuts
4. Devils food mix : add peanut butter chips and chopped peanuts
5. Add peanuts to the first recipe and make it like a Cadbury nut & fruit bar
6. And like I said, carrot: white chocolate and raisins

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