CAKE BATTER CHOC CHIP CREAM CHEESE COOKIES

                                                   Say that five times fast!!!

     My daughter is trying to upstage me by making these fabulous cookies.  Just look at them - how could I not post the recipe???  So, for your enjoyment (and oh, how you WILL enjoy them):  Hayley's cake batter chocolate chip cookies - WITH Ghirardelli chocolate chips.  Now, you can use any kind of chocolate chips, and any kind of cake batter, but those were her chips of choice, and she went with a yellow batter.  Way to go, Hayley! You're trying to be my favorite child, aren't you?

Ingredients:

• 1 box yellow cake mix (or other cake mix of your choice)
• 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/4 cup butter, room temperature
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 12 oz. bag semi- sweet chocolate chips (or 1 cup any other add-in you like, such as flavored candy, nuts, etc.)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Cream together butter and cream cheese. 
3. Add egg and vanilla and mix until well blended.
4. Stir in cake mix a little at a time until it's all blended.
5. Stir in chocolate chips (or nuts or candy of your choice).
6. Bake 10 minutes, until edges are brown.

And that's it!  It so perfectly qualifies for the Kozi Kitchen because of it's simplicity, yet yumminess.  Hayley, you are getting an A in Home Ec this year.  Oh wait, I give you an A in that every year - even on the years when we don't count all our work at home as "Home Ec"!  (Homeschool humor, bear with me!)

Makes about 4 dozen