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Ooey Gooey Chocolate Rolo Cookies are soft and indulgent, filled with a caramel Rolo center! They are quick, easy, & Chocolatey!
These gooey rolo cookies are so good you’ll want to save and bookmark this recipe for later! They are quick and easy like our Lemon Cake Mix Cookies and Cake Mix Cookie Bars!
Gooey + CHOCOLATE-Y
One of our favorite family cookies is our Ooey Gooey Butter Cookies. They are so delish and easy to make!
I decided I wanted to do a chocolate version and to mix things up I decided to add a Rolo to the middle because who doesn’t love ROLOS?! The added cream cheese adds a new level of ooey gooey goodness and creaminess.
The end result was amazing!! I made them for a family function a few months back and they were a hit. I call them: Gooey Chocolate Rolo Cookies!!
Rolo cookies with cake mix
PREP. Preheat oven to 350.
BATTER. Beat butter, vanilla, egg and cream cheese until fluffy. Mix in cake mix. Chill for 30 minutes.
ROLOS. Grab a Rolo and insert into rolled cookie dough making sure it is covered. Place in a bowl of powdered sugar and placed on greased cookie sheet.
BAKE. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Add sifted powdered sugar on top if desired.
The best technique for inserting the Rolo into the dough is to make sure that its right in the middle of the cookie is to 1st roll the dough into a ball and smash it flat with your hand. Place the Rolo in the middle and the bring the remaining dough together around the Rolo.
Tips & Variations
- Caramel: If Rolos aren’t your favorite you can get a pack of caramels from the candy aisle and use those instead. Just make sure that whatever size caramel you use that your cookie dough ball completely covers it.
- Chill: When you chill cookie dough it solidifies the fat so that the cookies don’t spread out as much in the oven and the fatty goodness stays right where it should instead of cooking right out of the cookie.
- Gooey: It is a gooey cookie because the added cream cheese adds a new level of ooey gooey goodness and creaminess.
Storing Info
STORE ooey gooey chocolate rolo cookies at room temp, tightly covered for 3-5 days. After this time period the cookies will most likely become hard.
FREEZE in an airtight container for 1-2 weeks, thaw before enjoying!
For some Candy Bar Treats check out:
- Candy Bar Brownies
- Candy Bar Cookies
- Oreo Snickers Pie
- Candy Bar Trifle
- Reese’s Brownies
- Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Gooey Rolo Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 box Chocolate Cake Mix
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 egg
- powdered sugar
- Rolos
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Beat butter, vanilla, egg and cream cheese until fluffy. Mix in cake mix.
- Chill for 1 hour.
- Scoop dough with cookie scoop into a bowl of powdered sugar. Roll around and then flatten dough, place a Rolo in the middle and fold the dough around the Rolo.
- Place cookie dough on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Dust powdered sugar over baked cookies, if desired. Let cool.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This recipe was a huge hit with both my husband and 4 year-old. Thanks for sharing!
Yay!! Love that! Thank you so much!
Thank you Lil’ Luna for all you do to make our holidays yummy! Love this recipe.
Make them, you must!🥰
These really are so gooey and delicious! They are the perfect combo!
This recipe is so easy to make and super flavorful! It tasted so delicious! Will surely have this again! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing gooey rolo cookies recipe! Highly recommended!
These are the most delicious cookie recipe ever. The rolo in the center is perfection!
There is nothing better than biting into a warm cookie & biting into a rolo at the same time!! Super gooey & chocolatey!!
We love rolls. They even taste better in the the middle of a chocolate cookie.
Can’t be easier to make a fancier cookie. Such an easy way to add a center to a cookie.
Yes please! One of my favorite candies in a cookie. Yum!
These cookies are so good!!!
I made these cookies because they sounded great, but I’d never actually had an ooey gooey cookie before. My husband took them to work and his co-workers are demanding more, they say they are the best cookies they’ve ever had! Thanks for sharing such a delicious recipe!
You are so welcome! I am glad to hear that!! Thank you for sharing 🙂
I made these for our holiday cookie bake off at work and won the prize for most creative!! They were amazing!
Woohoo!! Glad you won! Thank you for sharing that!
Hello Kristyn, thanks for your recipes. Could you please tell me if your okey.googey cookies are a wet cookie, I would love a crisp cookie I could make w/ a boxed cake mix. Appreciate any input. Rr
They are not a wet cookie. Just gooey 🙂 Thank you for checking my recipes out 🙂
Thanks for the delicious recipes
You are so welcome!! Thank you for stopping by!
Just made the yellow cake cookies. Delicious! And so easy. Will be trying them in many different flavors and those chocolate Rolo ones looks delicious. Thank you for this yummy treat!
You are welcome! I’m so glad you liked them, Brenda!! I have made this cookie in so many cake mixes and they are all so delicious. 😉 Have a great week!
Sooooooooooooooooooooo good! I made them and they are the best thing I had ever made!
Did you use the full size Rolo’s or the minis? These sound totally delicious
I used Regular Rolos but minis would work as well. 😉
I made these over the weekend and they were soooooooooooo good
So glad you liked them, Mary. Thank you for stopping by! 😀
I love your website so much u are awesome and have amazing idea and recipes….
Think it would be alright to freeze half the dough? Otherwise, I will be FORCED to eat the WHOLE batch! 🙂
Just brought these to church and had none left to take back home. These are very good and people love the caramel bite in the middle.
So glad they were a hit! Hopefully the were easy to make too! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Love the Rolo recipe and want to make it for a cookie swap this weekend! Just wondering approximately how many cookies one recipe will make???
I made 16 from my batch, but the cookies were quite large.- not a bad thing though I liked how they turned out.
I made 38-40. I used just enough dough to cover the Rolo and they were perfect… making more now!
Love your blog. Just discovered it from the contest entry. New fan and can’t wait to browse through to discover some awesome finds here.
Oh my gosh, these are great! I’ve been trying to come up with a chocolate rolo cookie, and this is a great recipe!
Can you give us a hint to which printables they are?
YUM!! We had those at a family party and I have been looking for the recipe ever since!
Thanks for sharing!
XO,
Jourdan