Some days I have unexpected recipe finds. For my mother-in-law’s birthday, I promised to bake her one batch of cookies per month of her choosing. She picked out an old recipe, which had, I believe, once been on the back of a package of Duncan Hines Cake Mix. It tasted okay, but I thought it needed to be “perked up” a bit. I changed the recipe around and added some ingredients to give it more flavor.Boom! My Marbled Chocolate Cookies recipe was born.
How To Make Marbled Chocolate Cookies
This recipe isn’t complicated to make, but it does call for the dough to be refrigerated for two hours before being baked. This is an important step! If you don’t do this the dough will be too sticky to roll. Also, if the batter seems too thin, mix in 1/4 to 1/2 cup of flour to the dough before refrigerating.
When rolling out the dough be sure not to roll the dough too thin. It will crumble and not stay together when you make the roll up. The easiest way to roll the dough is to place each it between two sheets of waxed paper. This makes it easy to transfer the chocolate layer on top of the vanilla layer.
Printable Recipe
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon additional butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla OR almond extract
- 1 package (15.25 ounces) marble cake mix
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- Mix shortening, 1/2 cup of butter, egg, and extract of your choice together in a large bowl until mixture is blended. Set aside chocolate packet in the cake mix box. Add cake mix slowly to the butter mixture, stirring until blended after each addition. Divide dough in half. To one half of the dough add the chocolate packet from the cake mix box and the cocoa powder. Stir until blended.
- Between two sheets of wax paper, roll out the yellow cake dough in a rectangle shape until dough is about 1/2 inch thick. Place the dough in the fridge to chill. Repeat the process with the chocolate batter. Allow dough to chill two hours.
- Remove the dough from the fridge. Place chocolate dough on top of the vanilla dough. Roll the mixture up, jelly roll style, beginning at the edge. Place the dough back into the fridge for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove the dough from the fridge and slice into 1/2 inch thick slices. Bake in preheated 350- degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool before removing from the pan.
This recipe makes a lovely addition to a holiday cookie swap. If you prefer, you can substitute different flavorings into the mix as well. Instead of vanilla or almond, try coffee for a mocha marbled cookie recipe. You could also make the cookies gluten free by substituting a gluten free marbled cake mix. If you can’t find a marbled cake mix, use a gluten free vanilla cake mix. Divide the dough in half and add 1 cup of cocoa to the recipe in place of the chocolate mix and 1/2 cup cocoa used in the original recipe. What is your favorite cookie to make during the holidays?
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I love freshly baked cookies. I almost always have a couple of boxes of cake mix on hand because they’re so versatile.
Wow. These cookies are so easy to make! I love the idea of using cake mix to make cookies. That would save me some time and gives me assurance that my cookies will turn out fine. Thanks for sharing the recipe. I’m making some this weekend.
What a delicious choice to add into our Christmas cookie delivery bags! Yum!
Thi is really cute and looks delicious! I need to try this!
I’ve never joined a cookie swap before but it would be so nice to make this for the family! I’m sure my kids will love it! And thanks for the tips on how to make it perfect!
The marbled look is always classy for parties. These look delicious to me. 🙂
These look delicious! You can never have enough chocolate cookies especially during this time of year! Such a great holiday treat!
Those are some yummy looking cookies. We are doing some holiday baking this weekend, so I might have to add these to my list.
All your cookies look delish and so festive. I can’t wait to make some for my college kids coming home for the holidays.
YUM! I’m looking for cookie recipes. I totally saved this!
I would love to try these! I love the idea of marbling the!
Mm these look super yummy. i haven;t had enough cookies this year!
Cake mix can be used for more than just cakes. These cookies look good.
All my kids want to bake with me so we are always looking for new recipes. This looks like something we need to make.
oh i love marbled baked goods! These look super delicious!
Ooh yummy! These looks scrumptious and I’m completely stoked that there are only a handful of ingredients needed to make them. Score!
Tis the season! Oh dear cookies how I love you so but my hips don’t! Marbeled cookies are my favorite and with the chocolate on top, oh my!Thanks for the recipe!
I was just looking for new cookie recipes. These look delicious!
You had me at chocolate! It’s really awesome to learn cookie recipes like this that the kids will love! Thanks! Using cake mix is such a good hack!
These cookies look delicious. I know my kids would eat the all up!
I love making cake mix cookies. These Marbled Chocolate Cookies look so delicious. They will be perfect for the cookie exchange this year.
Those look delicious! A unique cookie! I like mixing up the cookie game during the holiday season.
These cookies look great! i like cookies that have a different look to them, and these definitely have a great and different look.
These sound delicious. I have never had marbled cookies before. I love trying out new cookies, so I’ll be giving these ones a try.
These cookies look awesome! I would totally love to make a batch for my family.
I love these. Reminds me of childhood sweets. Absolutely delicious
Now these look like tasty cookies that should be fun to make. I like the vanilla and cocoa flavors a lot.
These look great! We always have a huge Christmas cookie swap so I am always looking for new recipes! These look delicious!
You are so talented you can take a recipe and make it your own and change it up and make it that much better. I wish I could bake like you but I am baking challlenged
These are so cute! I love the marbled look so much! Must be yummy too!
One of my favorite things about Christmas time is how many different kinds of cookies I can eat. I have never tried this one but I am definitely going to.
These cookies look delicious. Probably wouldn’t last too long around my house.
These cookies look delicious! They would be perfect to put out for Santa on Christmas Eve!
These are so pretty! I might need to make them for my holiday brunch next week! YUM!
Those are some yummy looking cookies. I’ve been looking for a new cookie recipe to try this year. Thanks!
These are perfect for the cookie swap I am going to this weekend 🙂
Those cookies look so good! I love cookie recipes like this that are tasty and also have some visual interest.
Those cookies sound fantastic. I know they would be gone in minutes around here 🙂