Super Easy Cookies

I do not remember where my Mom got this recipe from, but I remember loving to make them as a little girl and a young woman.
I used to make them as a young woman for my younger siblings. It was comfort food for them to cheer them up in a time when nobody was happy. My parent's divorce had happened and Mom was too depressed to be a mom for her eleven kids. So once, again, I was trying to prepare to leave my family for college in another state, cope with the guilt my mother was putting on me and cheer up my poor brothers and sisters, for whom, at the time, I was a second mom. Mom was always griping about how hot the tiny kitchen was, but these cookies I could make without much complaint because they cook in nine minutes.
She also complained about mess, but because almost everything is pre-packaged, these cookies did not make as much mess.

All you need is one box of cake mix (I used Betty Crocker or Pillsbury) of your choice of flavor (my babies loved chocolate, or funfetti, or french vanilla).

Just empty into a bowl. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a cookie sheet.
Now into the mixing bowl add a third of a cup of vegetable oil and two eggs. Now mix it all together with a spoon until it is sticky and oily cookie dough. Now roll batter in your hands to form little balls of dough, (the kids used to love helping me do that) place on greased pan and put in the oven and heat for nine minutes.
That is for the first batch, every subsequent batch only let it bake for eight minutes.
What will come out will look so perfect and be so perfectly moist and chewy. The kids and I could get them baked up and eaten and then clean up the mess before mom even got home and found out that we were having so much fun!

Around Christmastime my mother always taxes her poor heart and drains energy from everybody around her by trying to do too much. When I get married and have kids, baking Christmas cookies should not be more stress than can be redeemed by the taste. These cookies just might save my celebration some day.