Happy April 1st! Yes, it is April Fool’s Day. Are you feeling foolish? Yeah, me neither. But that’s okay. I’m sure the fools will be out on social media for our entertainment. In the meantime, let’s talk cookies. Who loves snickerdoodles? 🙋🏼‍♀️

Sometimes, you want snickerdoodles but don’t need the giant ones nor want to wait for that whole chill-the-dough thing that comes from making them from scratch with my go-to recipe. This hack cuts out that step and makes getting your mitts on the yummies in a little over 30 minutes.

April Fool’s Cookies

Yield: 32 cookies
Prep time: 10 Minutes
Cook time: 12 Minutes
Total time: 22 min (for the 1st pan)

Ingredients
1 box of yellow cake mix (or white) (13.5 ounce)
½ cup all purpose flour
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
½ cup canola oil or vegetable oil
¼ cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 

Let’s Make Them
1 – Pour cake mix, flour, cream of tartar and oil in a large mixing bowl. Stir.
2 – Add eggs 1at a time to the bowl.
3 – Mix until thoroughly combined.
4 – Preheat oven to 350° F.
5 – Pour sugar and cinnamon in a shallow bowl or plate.
6 – Portion dough using a small cookie scoop or a teaspoon.
7 – Roll each cookie ball in the sugar/cinnamon mixture.
8 – Bake 12 cookies at a time on a parchment-lined cookie sheet at 350 for 12 minutes.
9 – Let cookies rest on cookie sheet for a minute or two before moving them onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
Note: The recipe says bake 12 at a time. I have a giant cookie sheet and a big oven so I make them as close to one baking as possible.

Tips
1 – You can use a white cake mix if that’s what you have.
2 – Don’t leave out the cream of tartar. Your results won’t be the same.
3 – You can use any “granulated” sugar–just regular or the fancier sanding sugar.
4 – Don’t overbake. Cookies are meant to be soft and puffy and will stay that way unless you overbake them. Remember that cookies continue to bake for a minute or two on the cookie sheet after you remove them from the oven.
5 – If you’re easily distracted like me (and Hannah), set a timer so you pull the cookies out of the oven at the right time.
6 – My cookie sheets don’t have sides so I just leave the cookies on the parchment paper then slide the whole thing off onto the wire rack. Easy peasy.

Since all the kids are in MOONSTRUCK: RETRIBUTION, that’s where I’ll put this recipe. Find out the night before there’s a bake sale? You’r’re the class snack parent? The junior pack has swarmed your place and they’re hungry? This recipe is for you! And Liz, Jacey, Annie, Amy, Izzy, DJ, and if everyone clears out to so she can focus, Hannah. 😉

It’s the first of the month. My sales dashboard on the ‘Zon is goose eggs. Tell your friends to go buy the book. And then bake the cookies, grab your copy–you DO have a copy, right?!?–and sit back to munch and read. Sounds like a good plan to me. As always, just click on the title or the book cover to head over to Books2Read to find this book AND the rest of the books in the Moonstruck Genesis series, along with your favorite on-line bookstore. And remember to watch out for April Fool’s jokes!