Nicole

These are awesome cookie. My Granddaughter loves her Lofthouse. She said these were better. You can't buy 18,25 cake mix anymore. I just added 3 oz of an extra cake mix that I will keep just for that purpose.

Yep! These cookies are spot on--just like the Lofthouse cookies at grocery stores. Like another reviewer, my generic cake mix was only 15.25 oz, and so I used 1/2 cup flour + 1/3 cup flour. (That's a total of 5/6 cup of flour for the math nerds in the crowd.) I also used vegetable oil instead of soybean oil. The icing/frosting was just like what is on the store cookies, but warning! It does make extra frosting. Not that I will have any trouble finding things to dip in the extra frosting for a snack...If you are looking for a copycat recipe, this is it.

Really close to the original Lofthouse cookies. No need to use shortening in the icing, just substitute it for butter and whip it a little extra to make it light and fluffy. I also thought the recipe made way too much icing for the cookies. If you love icing then great, but I halved the icing recipe.

I don't know what Lofthouse cookies are, but these were pretty good. Since my cake mix was only 15.25 oz (3 oz discrepancy - everything is shrinking but the price!), I added a few extra tblsp of flour, as well as 1/2 tsp salt. I floured my hands as I was rolling them which was a big help (very sticky dough otherwise). The baking time was correct, and I got just over 2 doz. I did not use the listed frosting (time constraints) but frosted them with a canned butter frosting and sprinkles. I'm taking them to a church event tomorrow. A cake-like cookie that came together quickly. Thank you!