All Occasion Cookies - The BEST Cookie Recipe Ever!

(Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

1 pound - 4 Sticks Butter (divided use)

2 3/4 cups (11 ounces) All Purpose Flour

1 package White Cake Mix



Preheat oven to 350 degrees

1- Slice 2 sticks butter into bowl and microwave on high for 1 minute or until melted. Then slice remaining butter into melted butter.  Allow butter to stand 3 to 5 minutes or until softened. Use microwave as necessary to soften butter, but do not allow it to melt completely.

2- Weighing the All Purpose Flour is more accurate in this instance and produces a better quality cookie.

3- Whisk flour and cake mix together, whisking until there are no lumps.

4- Pour soft butter into cake mix/flour mixture, stirring until ingredients are incorporated and dough is smooth.

5- Can be used with cookie press (Yield 8 dozen cookies), cut-out cookies (Yield 2.5 dozen cookies), or drop cookies (Yield 7 dozen cookies).

6- Place on cookie sheet 1 inch apart.

7- Bake 15 to 17 minutes - Cool 3 to 5 minutes on cookie sheet before removing to cookie rack.

Adaptations:
Substitute Devil Food Cake for White Cake

Peanut Butter:
As above except: add 2/3 cups peanut butter into softened butter whisking together until smooth. Add to dry ingredients as above. May use yellow cake mix for this.

Adapted  from Pampered Chef. It is our all time favorite cookie recipe. We have been making these cookies for Christmas the past several years.