Easy Fruity Pebbles Cookies with a Cake Mix
Fruity pebbles cereal becomes the main attraction in these delicious cake mix cookies. Topped with cream cheese frosting and additional Fruity Pebbles, these cookies are a huge hit.
Servings: 20 cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 box white cake mix {15.25 ounces}
- ⅔ cup all purpose flour
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup butter {softened}
- 2 Tablespoons sour cream
- 1 ½ cups Fruity Pebbles cereal
- ½ cup white chocolate {chips or bar}
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese {softened}
- ¼ cup butter {softened}
- ½ Tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3½-4 cups powdered sugar
- 1-3 Tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine cake mix and flour in a medium bowl, whisk {or sift} together. Add eggs, melted butter and sour cream. Mix using a hand held {or stand} mixer until you have a thick dough. Add Fruity Pebbles and chopped white chocolate {or white chocolate chips} to cookie dough and mix until they are evenly distributed in the dough.
- Using a large cookie scoop, measure out 12 cookies. Use your hands to press the cookie dough into a circle that is a thick round disc. Bake 8 cookies at a time. Place the cookie on a silicone mat {or parchment} lined baking sheet for 9-11 minutes or until set.
- Remove cookies from the oven and allow them to cool completely on the baking sheet.
- While the cookies are cooling, start making the frosting. In a medium bowl combine the softened cream cheese, softened butter, powdered sugar, vanilla extract and milk. Mix using a hand held {or stand} mixer until thick but spreadable. Add more milk if needed.
- Spread the frosting on top of each cookie or add the frosting to a piping bag and pipe the frosting on the top of each cookie. Add additional Fruity Pebbles to the edge of each cookie on the frosting and serve.
- Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days or freeze for up to 3 months.
Notes
- Look for Fruity Pebbles white chocolate bars. I found mine at Walmart. The chocolate bar already has Fruity Pebbles inside, so it gives the cookies an extra special taste.
- Don't forget to form the cookie dough mounds into discs before baking. This will ensure that you get thick and evenly baked cookies.
- Be sure to not over bake the cookies. It is important to not bake them for longer than 11 minutes. A cake mix cookie texture can get very hard when over baked.
- Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet. This will help the cookies set up nicely.
- Use a zipper bag to pipe the frosting on top of each cookie if you don't have a piping bag. They work wonderfully and you have them in your drawer.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 319kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 44mg | Sodium: 293mg | Potassium: 59mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 35g | Vitamin A: 426IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 82mg | Iron: 1mg