You all have REAL cookie recipes, I just use cake mixes and add all kinds of things to them. (but not all at once)
1 cake mix
2 eggs
1/2 (or a little more) stick of butter
1/2 to 1 t. of vanilla (I just dump)
Then I add things like,
For Chocolate Cake Mix: Any kind of nuts, chips, toffee chips, crushed candy canes, or just roll them in powdered sugar and bake.
Yellow Cake mix: chopped dried cherries, dried blueberries, cranberries, chopped spice drops, toffee chips, nuts, chocolate chips, golden raisins, (cinnamon and top with cinnamon sugar mix makes an easy snickerdoodle)
Lemon Cake mix: I roll out the balls of dough, flatten them and press the top side into Country Time Lemonade mix. If you eat the cookie right side up it tastes like a lemon cookie. If you eat it upside down it tastes like a LEMON!!! cookie.
Bake at 350 for about 8-10 minutes
The variety of cookies is limited only by your imagination.
Experiment, have fun.
I use whatever mix is on sale, and I never use Spice or Carrot Cake because it makes the flavor too intense.
I also make up several at a time, put the dough in freezer bags and flatten to 1 1/2" thick and freeze them. When we want cookies or have unexpected guests it's easy to take out several bags, cut off what I want and pop them in the oven. Within 10 minutes I have a tray of assorted, fresh baked cookies.
Doughmaker cookie sheets are the best IMO.
signed: Queen of Quick, Princess of Easy LOL