I made these cookies for an office Christmas lunch but alas! and alak! I baked them a day early. I took a plate to the office and left a plate for my son. They disappeared moments after I left them in the lunchroom and received rave reviews from the home-front. Nick declared them to be the best cookies ever. It is nice that the office chow hounds enjoyed them but it is umpteen times nicer that my son enjoyed them. The kids gave me this plate the Christmas of 1995. It was the absolute brightest moment of that Christmas and has been a most treasured gift since then. I love this plate; it never fails to conjure up the sweetest memories of my kids. It has been a pleasure to pile it high with cookies every Christmas since. Do kids ever understand what their gifts mean to a Mommy until they have kids of their own?
Gooey Chocolate Cookies
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature
1 stick butter, at room temperature
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 (18 ounce) box moist chocolate cake mix
Raw cane sugar for rolling cookies in.
Preheat oven to 350°.
In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream the cream cheese and butter until smooth. beat in the egg. Then beat in the vanilla extract. Beat in the cake mix. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hoursto firm up so that you can roll the batter into balls. Roll the chilled batter into tablespoon sized balls and then roll them in raw cane sugar. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet, 2 inches apart.
Bake 12 minutes. The cookies will remain soft and "gooey." Cool completely and serve them to your kids.
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