Name: Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Bars
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 24 min
Total time: 34 min
Ingredients: 1 box yellow cake mix (13.25-15.25 ounces); 2 large eggs; ½ cup vegetable oil; ⅓ cup water; ¾ cup chocolate chips (+ Extra for topping)

Chocolate chip cake mix bars are simple but delicious. Their texture is almost a cross between a cookie and cake. They are a lovely way to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Stack of chocolate chip cake mix bars on a plate surrounded by extra chocolate chips.

These easy cake mix bars are dotted with plenty of yummy chocolate chips. They are super soft and beyond easy to make too.

Cookie bars are a time saving treat. They are a great way to make a dessert without lots of effort or multiple batches in the oven.

Of course they are even easier to make when you start with a cake mix. These can be in the oven in ten minutes or less.

Ingredients including cake mix, oil, water, eggs, and chocolate chips, ready to be made into chocolate chip cookie bars.

Mixing bowl with cake mix and eggs inside, starting to make the batter for the cake mix bars.

Chocolate chip cookies are always a hit with my family. They are definitely a classic for a reason.

But sometimes I don’t have the time or energy to make tray after tray of cookies. The chilling, scooping and rotating one tray of cookies at a time through the oven can be too much.

Luckily there are plenty of great dessert bars to help solve that problem. There is no chilling to do and only one trip to the oven!

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Adding chocolate chips to mixing bowl with cake mix bars batter.

Chocolate chip cake mix bars batter in 9x13 pan with a few extra chocolate chips sprinkled over the top.

Cut them into squares and you have the perfect little treat. Wrap them up for lunch box snacks and your kids will feel extra special.

They are also great for carry-ins or picnics. You could even wrap them individually and freeze them for a quick grab and go snack later.

You could also very easily press this into a 12″ skillet or a couple of 8″ rounds for cookie cakes. Just be sure to shave some time off the baking for the smaller pans if you go that route.

Spatula lifting a chocolate chip cake mix bar out of the pan showing the depth is much shorter than a cake and the texture is a cross between cake and cookie.

Hand picking up a chocolate chip cake mix bar, ready to eat.

Or bake the bars in an 8-inch square pan for even thicker bars. You will want to reduce the heat to 325F and add about 10 minutes to the bake time if you go that route though.

More Great Recipes to Try

If you don’t want to use a cake mix, brown sugar chocolate chip cookie bars are a great option. They are chewy and delicious.

Or for other recipes that start with a cake mix, try making some fudgy cake mix bars or a chocolate dump cake. They both have fudgy textures, but in very different ways!

Stack of three chocolate chip bars made from a yellow cake mix on a small plate, ready to eat.

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Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Bars

Author: Carlee

Servings: Servings

Chocolate chip cake mix bars are simple but delicious. Their texture is almost a cross between a cookie and cake. They are a lovely way to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Prep: 10

Cook: 24

Total: 34

Ingredients

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350℉. Spray a 9×13-inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients except the chocolate chips and mix until no lumps appear.
1 box yellow cake mix, 2 large eggs, ½ cup vegetable oil, ⅓ cup water
Fold in the chocolate chips.
¾ cup chocolate chips
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and spread evenly.
Sprinkle a few chocolate chips over the top and bake for 24 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out just barely gooey. You don't want them to be 100% finished as they will continue to cook once pulled out of the oven.
Cool in the pan for 20-30 minutes. If sliced before they’ve cooled, they have a tendency to fall apart.
Once cool, slice the bars, serve, and enjoy!

Notes

Once you’ve added the chocolate chips, it’s important you do not use the mixer in the batter. You want to fold those into the batter using a rubber spatula.

If you bake these in a smaller pan, they will turn out thicker, but you’ll need to lower the oven to 325℉ and bake them for about 10 minutes longer.

If you use too many chocolate chips, these will fall apart, even if you let them rest. Although they will be so very gooey and awesome, they will be a mess. 😛

The final texture is a little softer than cookies, but that’s part of what makes them so good.