This is a cookie that I created back in 2014. The idea was to use cake mix to create a cookie that took Raisinets to the NEXT level. Dark Chocolate Covered Raisinet Cookies are dark and chocolatey, full of raisins and Dark Chocolate Raisinets, then coated with a special dark chocolate glaze, just like the candies.
Keep Going. Don't Stop. Go, Go, Go!
You might be tempted to stop and not make the glaze coating once you see your cookies come out of the oven looking like this. They are certainly wonderful without the glaze but if you want your super duper Raisinetty Chocolate Sugar Buzz, keep going! I'm telling you that one of these cookies will take you to the moon. 🙂
If you like Dark Chocolate, you'll love my Oreo Cake Mix Cookies.
Process Overview of Raisinet Cookies
1. Melt butter.
2. Add cake mix and eggs.
3. Stir in Chocolate Chips, Raisins, and Raisinets.
4. Scoop and bake in the oven.
5. Let cookies cool and make the coating.
6. Whisk the glaze-coating ingredients together and bring to a boil.
If you love Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa, then you'll probably also like my Special Dark Chocolate No Bake Cookies (click the link to see that recipe. That one has peanut butter and oatmeal.
This recipe was updated and retested on 12/12/2023 to include new photos and adjustments to product measurements that have changed from the manufacturer in the past two years. The following is the original commentary I wrote when first publishing this recipe. I'm assuming you'll skip over it. 🙂
Introducing my first post in Cake Box Recipes. Since so many of my old cookbooks have recipes using cake mix, I thought it would make a nice category for The Vintage Cook.
OK, so everyone has a favorite movie theater treat, right? Usually, I just stick to a salty bucket of over-saturated with butter-oil popcorn. But back in the day when candy didn't cost an arm and a leg, I used to get Raisinets! Yum~ My girls would probably cringe, since they are of this age of those wax-coated, grainy, flavorless little cookie dough ball thingys. Oh but the Raisnets... could it be the idea of actually eating something healthy that got me hooked, or perhaps it was that sweet and slightly tart chewy combination? Who knows. But now, they EVEN HAVE DARK Chocolate Raisinets, oh goody gumdrops, it can't be true.
Turns out that Raisinets are the number one largest-selling candy in United States history. They were introduced to us in 1927 by the Blumenthal Chocolate Company and then Nestlé acquired the brand in 1984 (right around the time I started going to the movies!)
I hope you will enjoy this recipe. I played around with different combinations and finally got it exactly the way I envisioned. Now pass the popcorn please!~ Lanie Smith, 3/20/2014
Dark Chocolate covered Raisinet Cookies Cake Mix Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter (salted or unsalted) equal to ½ cup
- 1 -15.25 oz. box Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix
- 2 eggs, beaten
- ⅔ cups mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 -3.1 oz. box Dark Chocolate Raisinets
For the Glaze
- ¼ cup butter or margarine (equals 4 Tablespoons)
- ¼ cup milk
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 Tablespoons Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa Powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Melt butter in microwave safe bowl until almost melted.
- With a spoon, stir in cake mix and beaten eggs.
- Fold in chocolate chips, raisins, and candies.
- Scoop Tablespoon sized mounds onto parchment-lines baking sheet or baking mat.
- Bake for 10 to 14 minutes. Oven temperatures vary. Let rest on pan for 10 minutes to set, before moving to a rack.
For the Glaze
- In a non-stick pan, whisk together all of the glaze ingredients.
- Turn heat to Medium-High and continue whisking.
- Once mixture comes to a full boil and is bubbling, let cook for 1 ½ minutes longer. Remove from heat and let cook for 5 minutes longer.
- With a temperature-safe basting brush or a spoon, coat the tops of the cookies. Let cool.
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