Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe

Who wants Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies? You all, it is ME.

I always want cookies!

While we are all in the midst of our holiday baking, let's skip the Gingerbread Cookies and Christmas Snowball Cookies and make a treat that is totally non-seasonal for a minute...

I am serious, guys. I need a break from the red and green sprinkles.

They are driving me CRAZY. I just want some chocolate. This Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe may not be seasonal...

But delicious shouldn't be contained to a season - Rocky Road is a year-round awesome flavor!

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Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe

I absolutely love rocky road ice cream, and I once looked up who invented it. LOL This is the kind of stuff I do when I can't sleep at 3 AM on a Wednesday. 

According to company lore, Melvin Fenton, grandson of Fentons founder Elbridge Seth (E.S.) Fenton, was the first person to invent rocky road ice cream.

A more detailed version, outlined in old Fentons marketing materials (and referenced in simplified form on the current Fentons menu), tells it like this:

“George Farren, candymaker at Fentons Creamery, was making a Rocky Road candy bar at Fentons and decided to blend it into an ice cream flavor.

At the time, he was good friends with William Dreyer and Joseph Edy, who had an ice cream shop on Grand Avenue in Oakland.

As the story goes, Dreyer soon began making Farren’s recipe for Rocky Road to serve his customers, using almonds instead of the English walnuts.”

That Grand Avenue ice cream shop would go on to become Dreyer’s Ice Cream, also known as Edy’s in eastern states.

And hidden in these two sentences is the nut, so to speak, in rocky road’s origin story—Dreyer’s claims to have invented the flavor, too. “People were bummed [in 1929],” the company says on its website. “Dreyer’s wanted to help.

So we created a flavor with a name everybody could relate to: rocky road.”

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How to make this Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe

Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Ingredients 

• 1 box of chocolate cake mix, any brand
• 1 egg
• ½ C. oil
• 1 C. mini marshallows *Tip: when scooping the dough and forming the balls, tuck the mini marshmallows inside the cookies. 
• 1 C. walnuts or pecans

Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Directions  

Begin by preheating your oven to 350 degrees.

Combine the cake mix, egg , and oil, mixing well.

Stir in the walnuts and mini marshmallows. 

Roll the cookie dough into 2" balls and place 2-3" a part on the baking sheet. 

Bake 8-10 minutes.

This Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe makes approximately 2 dozen cookies, depending on the size you scoop!

Now...who's ready for some super easy and totally delicious cookies?

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