As the time for the Oscars to begin approached, it seemed we needed a sweet treat to munch while we watched. \u00a0With not much time to spare, I thought about gooey butter cookies that I usually make with a chocolate cake mix. \u00a0However, this time I decided to try cherry chip cake mix. \u00a0Cherry chip cake mix is hard to find and not available in stores by us anymore so I buy it by the case online. \u00a0I have never used it to bake these cookies but since it says you can use any cake mix, how could I go wrong? \u00a0So I grabbed my few ingredients and got to work.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The ingredients are very simple: 1 80z pack of cream cheese (softened), 1 stick of butter (softened), 1\/4 tsp of vanilla though I use far more, 1 egg, the cake mix and confectioners, sugar (1\/4 cup).<\/p>\n

When you have everything except the confectioners’ sugar mixed together, you then roll the dough into balls and roll the balls in the sugar and place on a cookie sheet. \u00a0Then bake them in a 350 degree oven for about 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

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Cookies will be soft so let them cool on the tray before moving them to cooling racks.<\/p>\n

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The aroma before baking which was heightened when adding the vanilla, was phenomenal, but cherry-vanilla has always been a good combination. \u00a0After baking the flavorful soft and gooey cookies were irresistible. \u00a0Hope you give them a try. \u00a0Please do not forget the give-away for the cutting board and bar boards ends tomorrow night. \u00a0We will hopefully have three winners but we need to get people to enter.<\/p>\n

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