Tag: Red Velvet Cookies

Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies

If you’ve never thought of using cake mix to whip up a batch of delicious cookies let this be your PSA to do so. I’ve shared a recipe using a chocolate cake mix – Chocolate Salted Caramel Chip Cookies – a yellow cake mix – Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip Cookies – and today I am sharing one using a red velvet cake mix to make Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies (how original!).

These cookies are perfect for the season with their deep red hue and little effort required to make them (let’s be honest, most people’s to-do list around this time can seem never-ending). While it is nice to bake something that is “fancy” and a tad bit involved it’s just as a nice (and less stressful) to make something that is easy and quick. The most stressful part of these cookies is having to wait one hour to bake them while the dough chills.

But after waiting for the dough to chill, and baking and cooling you’ll have delicious cookies that will be a great addition to any other cookies you are baking for the holiday’s or perfect just on their own. 

One quick thing to note, to mimic a traditional Red Velvet Cake I used Hershey’s Cream Cheese Chips in these cookies, if you are unable to find them you can use white chocolate chips instead.

Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies

  • Servings: 24 Cookies
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Ingredients:

1 15.25oz box Red Velvet Cake Mix

1 1/2 teaspoons instant coffee granules (optional)

1/3 cup vegetable oil

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup cream cheese chips*

*I used Hershey’s Cream Cheese Baking Chips, if you cannot find them white chocolate chips can be used instead.

Directions:

In a large bowl combine the cake mix, instant coffee (if using), oil, eggs and vanilla extract and beat with a hand mixer on medium speed until well combined. Stir in the cream cheese (or white chocolate) chips. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

Using a cookie scoop drop the dough about 2 inches apart on the baking sheets. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-11 minutes. The cookies will look slightly underbaked. Allow to cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Store cookies in an airtight container.

Recipe first appeared on Bead Yarn & Spatula. 

Cookie Palooza: Red Velvet Blossom Cookie

Today’s Cookie Palooza Cookie is a Red Velvet Blossom Cookie. A fun festive twist on the traditional Peanut Butter Blossom Cookie. We all know that cookie, the peanut butter one that has a Hershey Kiss pressed into the center of it and marries that wonderful flavor combination of peanut butter and chocolate… YUM!

I began by prepping the dough for the cookies. In one bowl I whisked together my dry ingredients and set them aside. In another bowl I added in my wet ingredients and beat them until they were well combined. And finally I added in the flour mixture and beat the two together until they were incorporated. At this point the dough was too soft to handle so I covered and refrigerated it for a few hours. Once the dough was firm enough I added about half a cup of confectioners’ sugar to a small bowl and rolled 1-inch shaped balls (I used a cookie scoop to measure the dough) in the sugar before placing them on a cookie sheet I lined with parchment paper. Rolling the cookies in the sugar will give them a nice crinkle effect (another popular cookie around the Holiday’s) and this is reminiscent of a traditional blossom cookie that is rolled in granulated sugar prior to baking. I then baked the cookies in a 350 preheated oven for 9 minutes. While the cookies were in the oven I unwrapped the Hershey Kisses to place in the center of each of them. You need to press these into the cookies while they are still warm before the cookie set so it’s best to have them ready for when the cookies come out of the oven. They might melt a little at the bottom but as the cookie cools the Kisses will firm up again.

And once they cool they are a delicious cookie to enjoy with a cup of hot chocolate. Or pack up in a festive tin to give as a gift, or bring along to a Holiday cookie swap or party.

If you are feeling really festive and ambitious you could easily divide the dough in half and tint one half red and the other half green for Red & Green Velvet Blossom Cookies.

Red Velvet Blossom Cookies

  • Servings: 48 Cookies
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Ingredients:

1 3/4 cups flour

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature

3/4 cup light brown sugar

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon red gel food coloring

1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar, more as needed

Milk Chocolate Hershey Kisses

 

Directions:

In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder and set aside.

Using a handheld mixer, combine the butter, both sugars, and salt in a large bowl and beat on medium speed until creamy. Add in the eggs, vanilla extract and food coloring and continue beating until the ingredients are well combined. Add in the flour and beat on low speed until mixed in. Cover and refrigerate until firm, at least two hours.

Preheat the oven to 350 F and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. Place confectioners’ sugar in a small bowl. Unwrap the Hershey Kisses and set aside,

Using a cookie scoop shape the dough into 1-inch balls. Roll in the confectioners’ sugar and then place on the prepared cookie sheets about 2 inches apart. Bake in the preheated oven for 9 to 10 minutes, untilt the edges of the cookies are set. Remove from the oven and immediately place an unwrapped Hershey Kiss in the center of each cookie and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Recipe from Land O Lakes