Remember the old Mounds Bar and Almond Joy Bar commercials
Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut, Sometimes You Don’t
I never feel like nuts in my baked goods. Macadamia nuts in white chocolate cookies, walnuts in brownies?
No.Way.
But big hunks of Mounds Bars?
Yes. For sure.
If you don’t like coconut, good for you because there’s more for me.
You can substitute Snickers Bars, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Rolos, or whatever candy is burning a hole in your pantry.
You also don’t have to put candy in your cookies.
No one is forcing you. But you will be missing out on some of the texture and of course the taste factor.
These cookies are so soft and chewy that I call them flexi-cookies.
Extremely flexible, pliable, and uber-chewy.
They’re a chocolate lover’s dream. Chocolate cake and chocolate chips and chocolate candy give them high marks on the overall fudge factor score card.
Grab a napkin and enjoy.
Because this recipe uses chocolate cake mix, success is almost guaranteed.
If you have cookie-making issues, cake mix cookies are nearly foolproof and these can fool just about anyone into thinking you spent lots of time at them.
They’re a one bowl and a spoon special and I purposely kept this recipe and batch size small: one dozen.
No one “needs” more than 1 dozen of these on hand. However, if you do have those kind of needs, feel free to double the recipe.
These cookies are loaded with perfect bites.
You know those bites that include some cookie, some chocolate chips, some Mounds Bar candy pieces, all gooey and melted together.
The bites that make all the problems in the world stop while you’re chewing. Yes, lots of those bites going on here.
My batch of 11 cookies didn’t last long but that’s okay (a bonus) because variety is the spice of (dessert) life.
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Mounds Bar Chocolate Coconut Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup devil’s food cake chocolate cake mix
- ¼ cup unsalted butter, half of one stick, softened
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup sweetened shredded coconut flakes
- ⅓ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ⅓ cup diced Mounds Bars, I used 3 1/2 mini-mounds bars, diced into 6 pieces each
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. In a large mixing bowl combine the cake mix, softened butter, egg, vanilla and stir by hand or with a mixer until combined. Fold in the coconut flakes and chocolate chips. Place the mixing bowl in the freezer for 15 minutes. Do not skip this step. Chilled dough spreads less during the baking process and this dough must be chilled before baking.
- Using a cookie scoop or spoon, drop 1-inch domed balls on a Silpat-lined, parchment paper-lined, or cookie sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray, allowing for adequate spacing. These cookies do spread some, but not terribly so. Before baking, insert a couple of the diced Mounds pieces into the top of each cookie, pressing in just past the surface. Bake at 350F for 8 to 10 minutes or until cookies have set up.
- Tip: Because the cookies are dark chocolate, it is hard to tell if they are browning; instead look at the tops of the cookies. If the tops are shiny, they are still a bit raw and a matte appearance means they are more well-cooked (I baked for 8 1/2 minutes, retaining just a small portion of shininess in the centers of the cookies. I prefer slightly underbaked cookies and these were incredibly soft and moist).
- The cookies may appear a bit loose on the tops after 10 minutes but they will continue to cook on the sheets after you remove the from the oven and will firm up as they cool. Do not overbake. Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheets before attempting to move them. Cookies will keep for a week on the countertop in an airtight container or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Your question is so timely because I just used a cake mix for the first time two nights ago btu for cupcakes! Is that still a cake but much smaller? Well whatever I felt crafty! :)
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cupcakes with cake mix!
Wow, these look good. I don’t think I’ve ever added packaged candy to a baked good (unless chocolate chips count as candy, which they totally don’t, I think). In fact, your blog may be the first place where I’ve seen such an idea! These look great. Sometime I may splurge on a GoMaxGo vegan candy bar or two and try one of these recipes.
Those Mounds cookies look amazing! What a great combination. I didn’t use candy lately but I did use Biscoff Cookie spread to make little Cheesecakes that were pretty easy with using store bought spread. But then with Biscoff, I could have just eaten the spread straight from the jar and been fine with it. I didn’t think it would be as appropriate to serve for dessert today to my Mom though so I made the spread into cheesecakes. Biscoffs are evil! https://cannedtime.blogspot.com/2012/05/dairy-free-biscoff-cookie-spread.html Hope you had a great Mother’s Day. Tomorrow it’s back to the same old same old :(
Happy Mother’s Day, Averie! Those cooks look amazingly awesomely delicious!!
Happy mother’s day to you, too! And thanks for the pin!
Also – Happy Mothers’ Day to you Averie!
I am a HUGE coconut fan, so I looooooove Mounds bars! Those cookies look so good – I love that they are still raw a bit in the middle. Just how I like ’em.
A smidge underbaked and lots of choc chips melting all over the place!
Drool. I love Almond Joy, but Mounds sound awesome pillowed by a chocolaty cookie. Drool again. :D
Happy Mother’s Day!!!!!
Thanks, Jenn. And I bet you’d dig these…supppppper easy. A little too easy :)
Ahh, I love Mounds bars! So good, love the dark chocolate and coconut together. And another cake mix cookie, yes!
guaranteed success that way :)
i love love love mounds bars! this is an awesome recipe, Averie. i adore adding candy bars to cookies – so many yummy options! I love that most of your cookie recipes make only a dozen or so cookies…. sometimes it’s just too much work and too many leftover cookies to whip up a 3 dozen recipe, you know? Hoppy Mother’s Day! :)
No one needs 3 dozen of the same thing laying around, unless you have 7 kids or it’s the holidays…seriously…after one or four of the same thing, it’s time to move on for me usually :)
Goodness me, these sound awesome! Yum!
I was over on Foodgawker and I quickly clicked on these cookies and was like WOW! These look great! Then I saw it was YOU!! :-) Love when that happens! Those little mini Mounds and Almond Joys were always my favs in my Halloween bucket, too! That was when they made an appearance in abundance in our house, otherwise, we were more Snickers and M&M’s peeps.
Happy Mother’s Day, Averie! Have a beautiful day! :-)
Oh how funny about the FG story! Happy Mother’s Day to you, Michele! Hope the wharf was fun!
These look amazing! Way to make me drool over here ;)
Happy Mother’s Day to you! <3
Happy Mother’s Day to you, Katie! Thanks for saying hi xoxo :)
Who would want to substitute a Mounds bar? Nothin’ beats that yummy coconut!
Some people don’t like coconut. They’re crazy :)
Happy Mother’s Day!