Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe

Who wants cookies? 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!

This Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe post may contain affiliate links which means we receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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.”

WHERE CAN I FIND THE RECIPE CARD FOR THIS Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe ?

If you would rather skip all of my cooking tips, important information for this recipe, and similar recipe ideas – and get straight to this utterly delicious Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe, just scroll right on down to the bottom, where I have a printable recipe card just for you! I know that a lot of people are old fashioned – like me! – and like to have a printed out recipe card.

Are recipe books still a thing in your household? Check out these cool recipe books (blank so that you can fill them up with your own recipes!) on Amazon!

DO YOU NEED A FEW MORE COOKIE RECIPE IDEAS TO BAKE UP FOR YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS?

Check out these delicious cookie recipes that I have shared over the years. They are all tried and true recipes that I have made over the years, or that one of my trusty food writers have made for me to share here. I think you will love them all! Of course, this is just a small selection of cookies, but we have LOTS and lots of cookie recipes on the blog – just type “cookies recipe” into the search bar on the right hand side of the screen and they will pop up for you!

• Kitchen Sink Cake Mix Cookie recipe
• Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe
• Red White and Blue Swirl Cookies Recipe
• Delish Chewy Vegan Cookies Recipe
• No-Bake Cookie Dough Bites Recipe

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
• 1/2 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

GET YOUR BAKING AND COOKING SUPPLIES ON AMAZON!

If you are struggling to find any of your usual baking and cooking supplies due to the COVID 19 lock down, check out all of the inventory on Amazon! They have most household supplies fully in stock in their warehouses, whether it be through regular Amazon, Amazon Pantry, or Prime Fresh. You can even get free delivery on orders with Prime and Prime Fresh delivery!  

Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Directions  

Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe

5 from 1 vote

Print

Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Author Jenn Quillen

Ingredients

• 1 box of chocolate cake mix any brand
• 1 egg
• 1/2 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

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Combine the cake mix, egg , and oil, mixing well.
3. Stir in the walnuts and mini marshmallows.
4. Roll the cookie dough into 2" balls and place 2-3" a part on the baking sheet.
5. Bake 8-10 minutes.

Rocky Road Cake Mix Cookies Recipe