Cake mix cookies

My new favorite cookie recipe... Don't mind the snap chat screen shot, it's the only picture I have if these amazing things. 

I used a Betty Crocker recipe I found online. The recipe calls for devil's food cake mix, which is what I used the first time I made these and they were amazing. Since then I've used butter pecan cake mix, white cake mix, and red velvet and they've all been great. The white and red velvet are the ones in the picture. I follow the recipe pretty much exactly other than that. I've found that the dough really needs a full 30 min in the fridge or it's too sticky and hard to scoop. I also use parchment paper on my cookie sheets. 

Ingredients

1

box Betty Crocker™ SuperMoist™ devil's food cake mix

1/3

cup vegetable oil

1

teaspoon vanilla

2

eggs

1/4

cup sugar

Directions 

• 1 Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). In large bowl, mix cake mix, oil, vanilla and eggs with spoon until dough forms.
• 2 Refrigerate dough 15 to 30 minutes or as needed for easier handling. Shape dough into 1-inch balls; roll in sugar. On ungreased cookie sheets, place balls about 2 inches apart.
• 3 Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until set. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Store tightly covered.

Snow shoeing!

Today my grandparents watched Lennon so Kyle and I could take the snow shoes out. We went up American Fork Canyon and started on the Pine Hollow trail. I couldn't believe how beautiful it was up there, everything was coated in fresh deep snow and it just looked awesome. We hiked up about two miles, just past the mud springs turn off. We had hoped to go up all the way to mud springs but the trail sort of just ended after the turn off. The snow was seriously so deep, we tried to forge our own trail and keep going but Kyle sunk down to  about his hips so we decided to turn around. Coming down the mountain was the best part, as it usually is. We went quick and even jogged in the snow shoes part of the way. I took way too many pictures but I couldn't help it, it was awesome today! 

Utah is rad!

Such deep snow!

Lunch stop 

Day date!

First time using ski poles

A couple days in Wallsburg

Well we had a fun couple of days up in Wallsburg at the cabin. We drove up early Sunday and stayed until this afternoon (Tuesday). We watched 7 of the 8 Harry Potter movies while we were there and that was pretty awesome. On Monday we spent a good portion of the day in Midway. We stopped at Wasatch Mountain State Park and went into the visitor’s center and then walked around a little bit. There were a ton of ducks and Lennon thought that was pretty cool. We also saw a ton of turkeys everywhere, huge ones. After that we went to the Heber Valley Artisan Cheese store, they had free samples and a big window so we could watch them making the cheese. This morning we went on a little snow walk/hike up the canyon. It was so pretty and such nice weather. Everything in Wallsburg is covered in such deep snow, it makes everything look pretty. Lennon like eating the snow and icicles, it's pretty much all he talked about the whole time we were there, it was so funny. 

Eating Snow

Watching the ducks

"Pretty horsies"