These Rolo Cookies are chocolate cake surrounding melted chocolate and caramel, coated in powdered sugar. Soft, gooey, and awesome. Only 5 ingredients needed!
More ways to enjoy Rolos candy include our Praline Rolo Cups and Pilgrim Hat Cookies, perfect for Thanksgiving!
Easy Rolos Candy Cookies
Chocolate cake surrounding melted caramel, and coated in powdered sugar. These Rolo Cookies are just that. What’s not to love?
I got this recipe from my friend Kary and they became an instant favorite. When my kids were little, they would ask me to make them all the time. Now that they’re older, they make up a batch themselves. They’re SO easy. All you need is 5 ingredients!
Ingredients Needed
You only need 5 simple ingredients to make this rolo cookie recipe.
(Scroll below to the printable recipe card for details and measurements.)
- Devils Food Cake mix – A box of cake mix, ideally sifted. Any brand works.
- Vegetable oil – For necessary moisture.
- Eggs – Binds the dough together.
- Rolo Candies – Make sure they’re unwrappped!
- Powdered Sugar – The dough balls get coated in this before baking.
How to Make Rolo Cookies
These caramel chocolate cookies could not be easy to make in just a few steps.
(Scroll to the bottom for our easy printable recipe with the complete directions, and don’t miss the video below.)
- Make the cookie dough. In a large bowl, combine cake mix, oil, and eggs (mixture will be thick.)
- Form the dough balls. Take a small portion of the dough (about a 1/2 tablespoon, just enough to cover the Rolo) and form a ball around the candy.
- Coat in powdered sugar. Roll each cookie dough ball in powered sugar and place on parchment lined baking sheets 2 inches apart.
- Bake. Bake in a 350F preheated oven for 10 minutes.
- Cool and serve. Out of the oven, press down just slightly and let cool for a few minutes. Eat and enjoy!
Video: Rolo Cookies
Proper Storage
- Storing leftovers. These are best served right away while the caramel is warm and gooey, but any extras can be stored in an airtight container and will keep at room temperature for a day or up to a 5 days in the fridge.
- To freeze. Let cool completely, then transfer to a freezer-safe Ziploc bag. Freeze for up to 1 month. Thaw in the fridge overnight and bring closer to room temperature before serving, keeping in mind that the caramel will no longer be as gooey.
More Easy Cookie Recipes:
- DoubleTree Cookies
- Easy Sugar Cookies
- Lofthouse Cookies
- No-Bake Cookies
- Flourless Chocolate Cookies
- Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Rolo Cookies
Ingredients
- 15 ounce box Devils Food Cake mix , sifted
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 12 ounce package Rolo candies , unwrappped
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 3 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, combine cake mix, oil, and eggs (mixture will be thick.)
- Take a small portion of the dough (about a 1/2 tablespoon, just enough to cover the Rolo) and form a ball around the candy.
- Roll in powered sugar and place on baking sheets 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 10 minutes. Press down slightly and let cool for a few minutes. Eat and enjoy!
So easy and delicious!
I start my baking early for Christmas cookies and did a test run of these. We loved them.
It looks great!!! Yum. But I’m from Argentina and I don’t know what is Rolo. It is like a regular cake? Thanks!
Rolo is a chocolate covered caramel candy. It looks like this: http://www.amazon.com/Rolo-Chewy-Caramels-Chocolate-12-Ounce/dp/B001FA1EEK
Great Recipe!!!!!! Have made these so many times and always get rave reviews!!!
That’s awesome! These are one of my friend’s favorite cookie. Whenever she’s stressed out or unhappy, I make up a batch for her. Instant mood lifter!
Thanks for sharing!! These were amazing. The dough was really sticky to work with, but well worth it.
I make the same cookies except instead of Rolos in the middle, I add mint chocolate chips to the batter. Always a winner at my house :)
Yum-O! Will try that next time…
These are (were) Awesome!!!!
I made a bunch of these cookies last year, and gave them to several friends. These received more compliments than any other cookie I made. Looking forward to making them this year as well.
So good… love caramel and chocolate.
Billy’s not a fan of caramel (WHAT?! I know…), so these would never fly in our house. But, I can dream. They looks DELICIOUS. Like outrageous. Santa will be leaving your house one happy man this year!
These were so easy and YUMMY!!
I love that such a simple cookie recipe finally was a winner. These look amazing, though, and I can see why!
Oh my goodness, these look DELICIOUS! And, surprisingly, they look really easy. I love caramel, but had a little accident making it earlier this year, so I’ve been trying to stay away… whoops. This is the perfect way to add caramel to a baked good without having to make it from scratch!
I don’t even want to know how many cookies I made this year…because then it would give me some clue as to how many I ATE. And I really have no desire to know that little statistic.
But I think I could use a good 48 more in my life. Especially if they have a caramel filling and chocolate outside. Swoon.
Woah, you’re not messing around with these at all!
Well, if diabetes passed the last two generations by, this will do it!
The Rolos make them the perfect movies snack. And 48 is the perfect amount for a sitting.
Ya…um…not all of the Rolos *cough* made it into the cookies *cough*
Ummmm…I don’t think Santa will find any of these waiting for him at your house now that I know where I can find them!! Can I just tell you that I’ve been dreaming of these? The picture does no justice and none I make will be as good as yours…sigh. Uh-oh, I just tried to lick the monitor… ;)
I was going to bring you another batch on Christmas Even…now Jen requested them for Christmas day. Good lord, I don’t know how much more my thighs can take of these ;-)
The picture says it all–the meltiness inside and the chocolate outside–divine! Thanks for being our recipe tester and passing on the winners. =)
Hee. My pleasure. Hey, if the worst thing I do all day is taste test sub par cookies to get to the great ones, I’ll take it!
My jaw dropped a bit when I saw this. So awesome!
Ha! Ya. I feel you. I actually had the same reaction when I first spotted them.
Alas, Amy, I am done with the Christmas cookies this year. So maybe I’ll make them for New Year’s Eve! If you’re not cookied out yet, there’s a wonderful recipe for Egg Nog Snickerdoodles at the StarTribune website. It was a runner up for this year’s Cookie Contest (published December 1, I think). Fast, unfussy, full of Rum (which I doubled and balanced out with a little extra flour).
Ah, it’s totally okay! I know I posted these a little late. But they certainly don’t HAVE to be for Santa. Pfft. New Year’s works for me! I’ve seen a few Egg Nog Snickerdoodle cookie recipes floating around…I make a muffin version that is fantastic. I bet they’re really similar.
OMG! Are you making these for Christmas?! Oh please, oh please, oh please!!!! DROOL….
I was planning on making the White Chocolate Berry Bread…I suppose I could bring these, too *twist. my. arm*
((twisting))
Lol. Okay… :D
I swear Amy, your making me nuts!!! Dang these look and sound amazing!!!
Hee. I know! But ’tis the season to indulge, right?