Recipe: These cookies are perfect when you need dessert in a hurry

My signature cookies have 16 ingredients. I love those beauties, but they require time and dedication. Sometimes I need to fall back on what I think of as a last-minute treat, cookies that require 6 ingredients that are casually combined and spooned onto a cookie sheet in the wink of an eye.

These German Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies are perfect for occasions when I need a dessert in a hurry. They team deliciously with ice cream. If you like, substitute chopped toasted pecans for the raisins.

German Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies

Yield: About 40 to 48 cookies

INGREDIENTS

1 box German Chocolate cake mix; see cook’s notes

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup old fashioned rolled oats

1/2 cup raisins

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 large eggs, slightly beaten

Cook’s notes: The recipe calls for a cake mix that contains “pudding.” I use either Betty Crocker Super Moist German Chocolate cake mix or Pillsbury Moist Supreme German Chocolate cake mix.

DIRECTIONS

1. Adjust oven rack to middle position. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. In a large bowl (I use the large bowl of my electric stand mixer), add all ingredients. Blend well by hand or use the stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Drop by heaping rounded teaspoons 2 inches apart on ungreased sheet pans.

3. Bake for 9 to 10 minutes (12 to 13 minutes in my oven) until set. Cool 1 minute on the pan. Remove to a wire cooling rack.

Source: Pillsbury.com

Award-winning food writer Cathy Thomas has written three cookbooks, including “50 Best Plants on the Planet.” Follow her at CathyThomasCooks.com.