#cookies

#cookies

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Cake mix has many creative uses besides its intended dessert, from pie crusts to waffles. If you can't decide between cake or cookies, why not have a bit of both by transforming your cake mix into cookies with the help of cream cheese. Cake mix provides the dry ingredients and a base of sugar and flavors that takes the work out of making cookies from scratch.

To make these Chocochunks, Hirayama suggests that bakers should aim for imperfection. "Like everything else in life, I like things irregular and not perfect," she writes. "Same goes for the shape of my cookies and also for the chunks of chocolate." (That's to say: Use and chop baking chocolate, as the recipe instructs, instead of reaching for the bag of chocolate chips.)