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Mixes like this make me sad.

If you had to add butter, egg and vanilla, the only things you didn't add were sugar/brown sugar, salt, baking soda, flour and chocolate chips. Really, how much effort is it ti measure out those ingredients and wash 1 measuring spoon and 1 measuring cup?

Actually baking is so much more cost effective and teaches kids that people make food, not companies.

If crazy low effort is really that important to you, you might consider mixing the dry ingredients together yourself ahead of time.

Sorry, but it does seem silly to me to have a mix that's only the flour, leavening & chocolate chips. And since you're not creaming the butter and sugar, which is important to the taste of cookies (and cakes, etc.) they're never going to be as good as homemade.

I agree with the other posters, but if it got you off the couch and doing something together, Amen.

My fiance made some yummy chocolate chip cookies last night :) This post makes me want some more!

Actually baking is so much more cost effective and teaches kids that people make food, not companies.

An excellent lesson, for sure!

My kids enjoy baking with me--they like to use the measuring cups, crack the eggs, etc. But their favorite part of course is the finished product!

i am a 33 year old mother of three and i have never baked cookies from scratch. so an all-natural mix might make fresh-baked cookies possible in my house.
i've made furniture, art, gardens, quilts and many other things "from scratch" but baking does not appeal to me. there is no need to feel sad for someone who makes cookies from a mix.

I'm sorry but the finished cookie doesn't look as yummy as the ones I make from scratch.

k8theriver--if baking doesn't appeal to you but you want fresh-baked cookies, then get the kind that you slice and bake. This mix is baking, especially since the point is that you don't save almost any time or effort using it. The difference between this mix and baking from scratch is a little bit of measuring, which you should be able to do with that impressive list of accomplishments, a few minutes holding a handmixer (or using a stand mixer), which anyone can do, and probably about $5, considering it's a lot cheaper to use your own flour and sugar.

I'm not going to lie, some baking is very difficult. Chocolate chip cookies are not one of the difficult kinds. You can do it--but if you don't want to, don't get this mix, get the log kind to slice.

mstina--You're right, they don't look all that appealing, do they? And I personally think that the basic recipe for Toll House cookies is perfect. You could add things like dried cherries if you want, or change to chocolate chunks, to more expensive chocolate, or upgrade to pecans, and I've had some very good choc chip cookies with oatmeal in the mix (Milk and Cookies Cafe), but as a basic recipe, Toll House cookies are perfect as is.

which slice and bake brand is good?
that is more realistic for me. but then i end up with cookies in my house which end up in my belly and then on my hips.