Hostess Cupcake Cookies Recipe with a Cake MIx
Everything you love about a Hostess Cupcake wrapped into one delicious cookie! The very best part is that the cookie starts with a cake mix.
Ingredients
Cookie
- 1 box chocolate fudge cake mix
- 2 eggs {whisked}
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
Chocolate Glace' Frosting
- 1 cup Cocoa Powder
- 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 4 tbsp corn syrup
- 6 tbsp milk
Marshmallow Creme Frosting Swirl
- 1/2 jar {3.5 oz} marshmallow fluff
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar {more if needed to get right consistency}
- 1/2 cup butter {softened}
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine cookie ingredients in large bowl and mix until completely incorporated. NOTE: Dough will be thick.
- Using a medium sized cookie scoop {or heaping tablespoon}, scoop cookies onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes, remove from oven and let cool on cookie sheet for 10 minutes before moving them to a cooling rack. Repeat until all of the dough is baked.
Chocolate Glace'Frosting
- Combine the Glace' Frosting ingredients and whisk until thick and smooth. Spoon a heaping teaspoon of frosting on top of each cookie and spread out to the edge of each cookie. Let them set up for at least 30 minutes.
Marshmallow Cream Frosting
- Beat butter until light and fluffy, add sugar and vanilla and continue beating using a hand held or stand mixer. Add marshmallow fluff and beat at medium-high speed for 1-2 minutes until smooth and fluffy.
- Add frosting to a Ziploc bag and cut a small triangle from the corner. Starting at one side of each cookie begin piping the iconic swirl over the top of each cookie. NOTE: The Marshmallow Cream Frosting will give you the iconic taste that you expect from a Hostess Cupcake but it will not set up easily.