Chocolate Cake Cookies

These are perhaps the easiest cookies to make.
They are also some of my favorite cookies, and my roommate's favorite, my fiance's favorite, and his roommate's and all of his friends' favorite. I was astounded at how fast they ate them. Like, I set the container down and opened it and maybe five minutes later they were completely demolished.
It makes me feel good inside when my cookies get eaten that fast :)
I have no idea where this recipe came from other than I called my mom asking how to make them. And off the top of her head she rattled off the four ingredients. Yeah, FOUR.

Ingredients:
1 box of chocolate cake mix (I used Betty Crocker's milk chocolate)
1/2 cup oil (see note)
2 eggs
1 cup chocolate chips (any kind)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl, pour in cake mix. Add in the oil and eggs and mix until there is no dry cake mix left. Then add chocolate chips.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper (for super easy clean up) or use a non-stick baking sheet or pan.
If you like your cookies bigger, place heaping spoonfuls of dough on to the baking sheet 2 inches apart. For smaller cookies, spoon out dough that is 2ish inches in diameter and place an inch apart.
Bake for 8-10 minutes.
Once firm around the edges, let cool for 5 minutes until moving them to a wire cooling rack.

NOTE: Vegetable oil is always the safest route to go. However, peanut oil is a good sub too. Olive oil will make your cookies a bit richer that vegetable oil will BUT you can taste the oil when they are still warm This is what I used the first time and the next day when I brought them over to my fiance's apartment the olive oily taste was gone.

Yields 18-20 large cookies and 30-36 small cookies