Easy Candy Bar Cookies Recipe: Use Your Favorite Candy Bars
This easy Candy Bar Cookies recipe, like other cake mix cookie recipes, is a timesaver The cake mix makes putting together the recipe simple because the mix saves you steps.
And it’s versatile. You can use any type of candy bars you prefer: Snickers, Almond Joy, Hershey bars, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Kit Kat, Butterfinger, Twix, Baby Ruth, 3 Musketeers, Milky Way …
Choose your favorite.
You can even mix and match leftover Halloween candy, Easter candy, or candy bars you find on sale.
If it’s a candy bar, you can use it in this recipe.
Prep time: <10 minutes
Bake time: 22-28 minutes
Makes 2-3 dozen bars, depending upon how you cut them
Ingredients
1 box (16 - 18 ounces) yellow cake mix
½ cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted
2 large eggs
½ cup packed brown sugar
1 ¼ cups (about 8 ounces) candy bars of any type, chopped and divided
Directions for Easy Candy Bar Cookies Recipe
- Preheat oven to 350º F. Line a 13 x 9 baking pan with
aluminum foil or parchment paper. Spray or grease the foil. Set pan aside.
- Unwrap the candy bars. Place them on a large cutting board.
Use a large kitchen knife or cleaver to coarsely chop the candy. Set chopped
candy aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer on low
speed, combine cake mix, melted butter, eggs, and brown sugar. Blend for 1-2
minutes until dough is moistened and dry ingredients have been well absorbed.
- Set aside 2 tablespoons chopped candy bars. Add the
remaining chopped candy into the cookie dough.
- Pour the cookie dough into the prepared pan and spread it
evenly. Sprinkle reserved chopped candy evenly over cookie dough surface.
- Bake bars 22-28 minutes until set and a toothpick inserted
in the center comes out clean. Remove the pan from the oven and allow it to
cool completely on a wire rack.
- Cut bars into 7 rows of 5 or any other size you choose.
- Store cookies in an airtight container using waxed paper or parchment paper to separate layers.
Special Baking Tips for this Candy Bar Cookies Recipe
- You can use any brand of cake mix in this recipe.
- If you like chocolate, you can substitute a chocolate cake mix
for the yellow cake mix to make your own Chocolate Candy Bar Cookies recipe.
- Hand chop candy with a large knife or cleaver rather than using a food processor, since candy will stick to the processor’s steel blade. If you have chosen candy bars with sticky centers, then spray the knife with vegetable spray before chopping.
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