I’ve been making cool whip cookies for a while now. It’s a fun way to turn cake mix into cookies. Sounds silly, doesn’t it? Trust me, they are good!!
The way I used to make these cookies was with regular cake mix, Cool Whip & an egg. It came out to 6 points per cookie.
Now I make them with Pillsbury Sugar Free Cake Mix and fat free Cool Whip. That brings it down to 3 Freestyle points per cookie. That’s pretty awesome if you ask me!
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The best part is they still taste great!! So good in fact that I may have had one with my coffee this morning. Which FYI went together very well!
Since it makes 24 cookies I usually put the extras in an airtight container in the fridge. Trust me, you won’t want these cookies to go to waste.
Update: I’ve had quite a few people ask me if they can omit the powdered sugar. The truth is, I don’t know. I have never done it.
The recipe calls for 1/3 cup powdered sugar. It does not all get used. You are rolling the cookie ball in the sugar.
When I make the cookies I end up using a total of 1/4 cup powdered sugar. There is roughly 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon of powdered sugar left over.
For 1/4 cup of powdered sugar, it is 7 points. There are 24 cookies total so it really doesn’t add that many points to the recipe.
Yield: 24 cookies (3 points per cookie for blue, green and purple)
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- 1 box Pillsbury Sugar Free Yellow Cake Mix
- 8 oz. fat free Cool Whip
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup powder sugar
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
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In a large bowl combine cake mix, Cool Whip and egg. Mix together until well blended.
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Put powder sugar in a bowl.
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Spray a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray. Use a cookie scoop to get a ball of dough, then drop it into the powder sugar. Roll the dough around the sugar, then place onto the baking sheet.
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Repeat until you have 24 cookies.
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Bake cookies 9-13 minutes.
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Robin Lavinder
August 18, 2018 at 8:53 amYou can turn sugar substitute (stevia) into powdered sugar by blending it in a blender for a few seconds!
keepingonpoint
August 18, 2018 at 12:13 pmGood idea! I didn’t know that, thanks!
Judi Pelegrinelli
September 5, 2018 at 10:49 amCan these cookies be frozen?
keepingonpoint
September 5, 2018 at 2:53 pmI’m not sure, I haven’t tried.
Kathy
September 30, 2018 at 5:37 pmI usethe pillsbury sugar free chocolate cake mix. The colors end up looking like crinkle cookies. No one knows thei are made with the sugar free cake mix and fat free cool whip.
Sharon Fox
October 4, 2018 at 3:40 pmCould you substitute 2 egg whites for the egg?
keepingonpoint
October 4, 2018 at 5:15 pmI’m not sure, I’ve never tried that.
Monica Y
October 7, 2018 at 10:39 pmAre the insides supposed to stay kind of chewy or did I undercook them?
Joyce
November 13, 2018 at 11:23 amHave you tried with different flavors of cake mix. I use lemon. Very good.
Michelle
June 28, 2019 at 1:50 pmIf you’re adding sugar to sugar free mix, can’t you use regular mix and skip the addition of sugar?
keepingonpoint
July 4, 2019 at 11:52 amIt would definitely change the point value if you used regular cake mix. You don’t use all of the 1/3 cup of powdered sugar so it really doesn’t add much as far as points.
Vivian Woll
July 7, 2019 at 7:38 pmI live near Santa Rosa CA and have never seen a Sugar-Free cake mix of any kind. I don’t like shopping on line—any suggestions?
Roni Williams-Cox
September 12, 2019 at 8:52 pmWal Mart sells Pillsbury here in S.C. go there and ask the manager if they can get it for you.
Peggy Jo McClimans
February 22, 2022 at 2:56 pmKroger carries sugar free cake mix, also
Carrie bradshaw
August 22, 2019 at 5:29 pmSix points is a lot for one cookie. Hardly worth it.
keepingonpoint
August 22, 2019 at 7:06 pmIt’s actually 3 points 🙂
Pat M
February 17, 2020 at 10:36 amI’ve been making these cookies for 50+ years using a regular cake mix and lite cool whip. My recipe says bake for 12min no longer so cookies stay chewy in the middle. Lemon and chocolate are my family’s favorites. Enjoy!
Brenda Ashness Williams
April 11, 2020 at 6:28 pmCan I add Lily’s chocolate chips to these? Was not sure if it would change anything. I am not much of a baker so not sure. Thanks.
keepingonpoint
April 11, 2020 at 8:54 pmI don’t see why not…just make sure to add any extra points. 🙂
Brenda Williams
April 12, 2020 at 2:10 pmWould adding Liky’s chocolate chips work.
keepingonpoint
April 12, 2020 at 6:27 pmI haven’t tried it, but I don’t see why not. Just make sure to add any extra points. 🙂
Georgine epstein
June 30, 2020 at 4:10 pmI must f made the cookies to small because I got 33 cookies instead of 24 so how many points would one cookie be
Vicki
July 7, 2020 at 11:24 amIf adding sugar free cool whip, would that make it less points also?
Kay
July 24, 2020 at 7:49 pmDoes anyone know how many calories are in each cookie???
kat
August 15, 2020 at 2:30 pmI USED STEVIA POWDERED SUGAR ORDERED IT AND SYRUP AT SWEETLEAF.COM YUMMY