Cream Cheese Sprinkle Cookies are so easy, super soft, and most of all delicious to eat all year long. Combining simple ingredients of cream cheese, unsalted butter, and white cake mix with vanilla and 1 egg, cover with strawberry cream cheese icing to create the best darn cookie around!
I wish my weather here had been a bit more cooperative today for my photos. It’s my 43rd Birthday, so of course, it’s all doom, gloom, rain, and dark, ominous clouds outside. I was hoping for sunshine and rainbows today. It seems my husband being his usual disconnected man self, is too preoccupied with himself this June 2nd to do any celebration for his wife. I bet his Birthday will be fun this year, huh? HA!
I decided to make my own day a little more cheerful by baking up some delicious soft Cream Cheese Sprinkle cookies. I had picked up a few cake mixes on sale a while back and used one for my simple and easy Memorial Day Bundt Cake, so I had one more in the pantry to use up and decided to make some of my favorite cookies to share with you on my Birthday.
Below you will find my simple recipe with easy-to-follow instructions to make these delicious cookies for your loved ones and friends any time of the year you want super soft cake cookies with delicious cream cheese and strawberry icing.
Ingredients needed for Cream Cheese Sprinkle Cookies
- 8 ounces of cream cheese
- 1⁄4 cup of unsalted butter softened
- 1 box of white cake mix
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon of kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 container cream cheese icing
- 4 medium strawberries minced.
- colorful sprinkles
Directions
- Beat cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy.
- In another bowl, add white cake mix, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon of kosher salt, and mix all dry ingredients.
- Mix in 1/2 of the dry ingredients, an egg, and the vanilla into cream cheese and butter until smooth.
- Stir in remaining dry ingredients.
- Roll into a ball and cover with plastic wrap, place in the refrigerator for 1 hour
- Drop by a tablespoon on an ungreased non-stick metal cookie sheet.
- Bake 10-11 minutes. Do not brown.
- Remove from oven and place on a heat-resistant area to cool before icing and adding sprinkles.
- A small bowl combines room temperature icing and minced strawberries, stirring till strawberries start breaking down and making the icing a pink color. Icing will be a thinner texture. It should not be runny, though.
- Once cookies have cooled completely, ice with strawberry cream cheese icing and add the sprinkles.
- Enjoy

Cream Cheese Sprinkle Cookies
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1/4 cup of unsalted butter softened
- 1 box white cake mix
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla
- 1 large egg
- 1 container cream cheese icing or homemade
- 4 strawberries minced
- colorful sprinkles
Instructions
- Beat cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy.
- In another bowl add white cake mix, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon of kosher salt, stir to mix all dry ingredients. Mix in 1/2 of the dry ingredients, an egg, and the vanilla into cream cheese and butter until smooth.
- Stir in remaining dry ingredients. Roll dough into a ball and cover with plastic wrap, place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Drop by a tablespoon on an ungreased non-stick metal cookie sheet. Bake 10-11 minutes do not brown.
- In a small bowl combine room temperature icing and minced strawberries, stirring till strawberries start breaking down and making the icing a pink color. Icing will be a thinner texture, it should not be runny, though.
- Once cookies have cooled completely, ice with strawberry cream cheese icing and add the sprinkles.
Notes
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27 Comments
Debra @ Bowl Me Over
June 15, 2015 at 9:41 amMmmm!!!! What a delicious sweet treat!
hmccallum
August 3, 2018 at 12:55 pmThank you, glad you enjoyed the cookies Debra
delphineefortin
June 15, 2015 at 4:17 amWow, they look so damn good! 🙂
hmccallum
August 3, 2018 at 12:58 pmThank you, glad you enjoyed the cookies, Del. Let me know if you make them!
Joanne T Ferguson
June 14, 2015 at 4:08 amThese sound delicious and fun Heidy! They remind me of cooking when I was little!
Healing Tomato (@healingtomato)
June 13, 2015 at 11:21 pmI am going to make them this weekend.
Culinary Flavors
June 13, 2015 at 3:13 pmThey look so cute and so inviting with all these colors! I bet they are equally tasty!
taranoland
June 13, 2015 at 1:21 pmSuch pretty cookies, they make me smile!!
Cindy @ Hun... What's for Dinner?
June 13, 2015 at 8:37 amThese cookies sound delicious! I bet the kiddos (and those young at heart) would love these.
Nicole Neverman
June 13, 2015 at 7:20 amThese cookies look lovely! I’ve never used cream cheese in a cookie so this is a must try 🙂
Elizabeth
June 13, 2015 at 4:51 amMy kids would absolutely love these – super recipe! (I can’t find the Yum button to Yum!)