Name: Cake Mix Chocolate Spice Meatball Cookies
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 17 min
Cuisine: Italian, American
Ingredients: 1 package of Devils Food Cake Mix (15.25-ounce box); 1 1/34 cups of flour; 4 eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 2 teaspoons cinnamon; 1/2 teaspoon allspice; 1 stick of butter or margarine melted (1/2 cup); 1 1/2 cup chocolate chips (I use semi-sweet); Optional 2/3 cup chopped walnuts or another kind you prefer; (for nut allergies use pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds); white and chocolate frosting canned or homemade

Grandma always made Italian Chocolate Spice Ball Cookies aka Chocolate Meatballs Cookies around the holidays, and we have adapted her recipe by using a cake mix that is super easy and absolutely delicious.

As kids, we called them chocolate meatballs cookies because they're round like a meatball.

The cookies looked so pretty frosted with white or chocolate icing with some colorful sprinkles to match the holiday theme.

These cake mix cookies stay nice and moist, are very light in texture, and have a wonderful aroma of cinnamon spice, festive flavors.

If you prefer to make this cookie recipe all from scratch try our old-fashioned chocolate spice cookies grandma used to make which is the original recipe from the 1960s.

Our cake mix cookies are a great addition to your recipe collection when you need a large amount and are in a hurry, using all simple pantry ingredients.

For a festive Christmas cookie just frost and decorate them with colorful holiday-themed sprinkles.

The cookies are great to bake for that last-minute party your invited to and perfect for bringing to a cookie exchange.

If you love easy doctored cake mix recipes try our Turtle Cake Mix Brownies, Sour Cream Coffee Cake Mix Cupcakes, and our Half Moon Cake Mix Cookies we make often.

Scroll down to the recipe card and don't forget to read my tips and suggestions that have some creative ideas for other flavored cake mixes.

chocolate spice meatballs cookies with white icing

chocolate spice Italian cookies with chocolate and white icing

Doctored Cake Mix Cookies

We just love adapting tried and true recipes to make life easier using a cake mix and these will not disappoint.

I think you will be as amazed as we were when you make this easy version of those meatballs cookies.

You can also try using another flavored cake mix with our additional ingredients added to make any flavored cookies balls you want.

There are some tips for mix-ins you can also try when adapting the ingredients for your cookies below you won't want to miss reading.

Frosted or unfrosted these Chocolate Spiced Meatball cookies are delicious and not overly sweet.

chocolate meatball cookies cooling on a wire rack

Other Mix-In Suggestions:

peanut butter chips
mint chocolate chips
toffee chips
substitute chopped pretzels for nuts
dried fruits like cranberries
for Christmas, colors add chopped maraschino cherries and white chocolate chips
white, milk, and dark chocolate chunks
chopped peanut butter cups or another chopped candy you prefer
mint-filled chocolate candies chopped
chopped unwrapped caramels, pistachios, pecans, macadamia nuts, coconut
pumpkin seeds for nut allergies
cookies cant be left plain, rolled in cinnamon sugar, powdered sugar, or frosted
add coconut and chocolate chips

these are rolled chocolate balls that are called meatball cookies on a silipat mat

Ingredients You Will Need (scroll down for exact measurements)

chocolate cake mix
eggs
butter
flour
vanilla or almond extract
canned frosting in chocolate and or vanilla
Optional:
regular, mini, or assorted flavored chocolate chips,
coconut, any kind of nuts, and colorful sprinkles to match the holiday theme

Tips

roll the cookies into balls by hand with very little flour
store these in airtight containers
cool completely before frosting
cookies should be fragrant with spice you can add more
use a lined cookie sheet or Silpat mat
cookies can be rolled in granulated sugar before baking instead of frosted or after baking rolled in powdered sugar
add some cinnamon in the frosting for more spice flavor
when using another flavored cake mix you can add raisins, nuts, chopped candy bars, craisins, coconut, funfetti sprinkles to the batter and get creative
these cookies freeze in an airtight container unfrosted for up to 3 months thaw and frost

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Cake Mix Flavor Suggestions

Of course, you can use a spice cake mix, yellow, red velvet the list goes on, and then just add the additional ingredients listed in the recipe card.

The only ingredients you will need to adapt are the mix-ins for nuts, chocolate chips and whatever you like to balance out the flavors of the cake mix you decided to use instead of chocolate.

These cookies are terrific soft and light not dense and so simple to make however if you would like to make the original recipe do try Grandma's Italian Chocolate Spice Cookie Recipe!.