Most of my cooking posts are of the cook from scratch, home-raised, type of content. However, after living a few years of my life in a super regimented healing cycle with regards to food, I am now more in a maintenance most of the time cycle.
What I mean by that is I adhere to my super healthy eating regimen most of the time. But I also allow myself to have a bit of fun on occasion. That means that I might eat something with sugar in it once in a while. Just never more than once a week. I'll probably do a post in the future about not relying on willpower alone and blocking out allowances in your schedule, but this is not that post.
What it is is a post of absolute grocery store happenstance! The other day I was wandering our local Winco (a regional employee-owned super market), and came across this:
There was a UNICORN on the box! Of course it caught my eye! The box alone was marketed to appeal to girls who grew up with Lisa Frank sticker collections and youngins who like My Little Pony. But what drew me was the grocery store had marked the cake mix down to $0.48!
Every week I have two tabletop game nights that I participate in. One is at my house and is ran by my Cuz (He recounts our adventures and others over at his blog 
Now you might have not guessed it yet, but I love to bake. In fact, baking for others is one of the greatest joys in my life. I adore crafting comestibles and sharing them with others, and I tend to bake things and serve them at game nights.
So you better bet I snatched that Strawberry Funfetti cake mix off of the shelf!
You see, my go to in a time pinch cookie recipe is cake mix cookies. I have shared numerous cake mix cookie recipes on this blog over the years. I always have a cake mix, some vegetable oil, and two eggs in the house. Always.
What made me even more excited about the unique cake mix score was I had these in my cupboard:
I have been waiting for just the right occasion to use the funfetti chips, for they too were a frugal find. I found them for $1.47 a bag at Grocery Outlet a couple weeks ago and threw them into the cart knowing that they would be a part of game night cookie gloriousness.
Well, the not at all healthy game night treat stars aligned and I decided to go all in. Thus, the Strawberry Funfetti, Funfetti Chip Cake Mix Cookies came together. Lover's of Red dye, additives, and kitchen food science rejoice!
Because my friends, there is nothing remotely nourishing or healthy about these little cake mix cookies of refined carbtasticness, but if you love the flavor or artificial strawberries or want to go on a nostalgia tour to the nineties when everything was a fake flavor slap to your senses, then these are your cookies.
Seriously, they tasted so dang good! I even ate two of them on game night, but then again, I planned too.
And I loved every second of it. One, because they tasted fun. Two, my friends loved them, and three, I made 28 cookies for less than $2. Happy sigh......
Note time: If you can't find Strawberry Funfetti cake mix, regular funfetti (or any cake mix for that matter) will work just fine. It's just cake, oil, egg, whatever additives you want, then cookies! Be creative! Mix and match like a painter of mad creative flavors!
Strawberry Funfetti-Funfetti Chip Cake Mix Cookies
1 box strawberry funfetti cake mix
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1/2 package funfetti chipsPreheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
In a stand mixer, add the cake mix, oil, and eggs to the mixing bowl and mix until well combined.
Add the funfetti chips and turn the mixer up to aggressive mix status to combine the funfetti chips into the dough.
Roll dough into TBSP sized balls and place them a couple inches apart on the parchment lined baking sheet.
Bake for 10-11 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Don't overbake them!
Cool for a couple of minutes on the cookie sheet then transfer to a baking rack to cool completely.
Watch them disappear!
And as most of the time, all of the images in this post were taken on the author's strawberry scented and not especially magical iPhone. The cover image was edited in the super-excellent Canva!