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    Home » Cookies » Red Velvet Cookies

    Red Velvet Cookies

    by Lainey · Posted: Jan 28, 2014 · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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    Have you ever heard of Red Velvet Cookies? It’s a delicious, soft and chewy cookie with a rich, melted white chocolate frost. This cookie is perfect for Valentine’s Day, Christmas Day, or just any day that you crave for a delicious but easy chocolate cookie with a red velvet twist.

    Red Velvet Cookies

    Tips on How to Make Red Velvet Cookies:

    • I like to scoop my cookie dough and freeze them for about 15 minutes before baking. This allows the butter to chill up that way when they bake, they don’t spread as much and you’re left with a thicker chewier cookie.
    • Before mixing the dry ingredients like all-purpose flour, baking soda, and brown sugar, sift them individually. This easy but very important step would make your cookies nice and evenly textured. It wouldn’t be fun biting into a lump of flour in between 🙂

    How to Make Red Velvet Cookies:

    These are the ingredients that you will need:

    • brown sugar
    • softened butter
    • egg
    • red food coloring
    • vanilla extract
    • all-purpose flour
    • cocoa powder
    • baking soda
    • salt

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, grease cookie sheet or use parchment paper or a baking mat.

    In a large bowl add brown sugar and softened butter and mix until light and fluffy:

    brown sugar and butter in a mixing bowl

    Add the egg, vanilla extract, and mix:

    mixing the butter and sugar with eggs

    Next, add red food coloring:

    adding red food color to the cookie batter

    The cookie batter will look like this:

    red velvet cookies batter

    In another bowl sift the all-purpose flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix and add to the wet ingredients:

    adding the flour, baking soda, and salt to the cookie batter

    Shape dough to about 1 ½ to 2 inch balls and bake for 12-14 minutes:

    ready to bake Red velvet cookie dough on a baking mater

    I promise, Simply Bakers, these smelled so yummy in my kitchen!

    freshly baked red velvet cookies

    Melt the white chocolate in a microwave and you are ready to drizzle some sweet chocolate on top of the cooled Red Velvet Cookies!

    drizzling the melted white chocolate

    There’s no really perfect way to do it. I just did it “freestyle” but it still looked pretty <3

    Frequently Asked Questions for the Red Velvet Cookies Recipe:

    Q: Can I freeze this cookie dough a few days before baking?

    A: Sure, you can. Just make sure to thaw it before baking.

    Q: How many cookies did this recipe make?

    A: I have made about 24 cookies using this recipe.

    Q: Can I make big cookies out of this recipe?

    A: I do not advise making very large cookies as it will affect the cooking time and also the quality of the cookies.


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    Red Velvet Cookies

    Red Velvet cookies are delicious, soft and chewy cookies with a rich, melted white chocolate frost that is perfect for Valentine's Day, Christmas Day, or just any day that you crave for a delicious but easy chocolate cookie!
    Author: Lainey

    Ingredients

    • ¾ cup brown sugar
    • ½ cup softened butter
    • 1 egg
    • 1 teaspoon red food coloring
    • 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 1 cup all purpose flour
    • ¼ cup cocoa powder
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • ⅛ teaspoon salt

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, grease cookie sheet or use parchment paper or baking mat.
    • In a large bowl add brown sugar and softened butter and mix until light and fluffy. Add egg, vanilla extract and mix. Next add red food coloring.
    • In another bowl sift, all purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Mix and add to the wet ingredients.
    • Shape dough to about 1 ½ to 2 inch balls.
    • Bake for 12-14 minutes

    Notes

    If you want to drizzle white chocolate on the red velvet cookies, melt 10 oz of white chocolate
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    Comments

    1. Hanna says

      June 14, 2015 at 5:56 pm

      How many cookies does this recipe make?

      Reply
      • Lainey says

        June 19, 2015 at 3:52 pm

        makes about 1 dozen large cookies! 🙂

        Reply
    2. Hanna says

      June 14, 2015 at 5:59 pm

      Also, if I make this at night will it get hard by the next day? (Afternoon)

      Reply
      • Lainey says

        June 19, 2015 at 3:53 pm

        no, just don’t over bake the cookies. 🙂

        Reply
    3. Lina says

      October 06, 2015 at 10:22 pm

      Can I bake some cookies today and leaves some dough for tomorrow to bake?

      Reply
      • Lina says

        October 07, 2015 at 5:25 pm

        Hello Laniey, can you reply me please i know this comment it now but just please replay me. Maybe you dont even watch this comment any more

        Reply
        • Lainey says

          October 04, 2020 at 9:28 pm

          Sorry Lina for the late response. You can catch me on IG or FB. I usually answer within 24 hours. 🙂

          Reply
      • Lainey says

        October 04, 2020 at 9:27 pm

        Hi Lina,
        Yes, of course you can. 🙂

        Reply
    4. Anonymous says

      May 07, 2017 at 3:44 am

      They tasted sooooooooooo good

      Reply
      • Lainey says

        September 03, 2020 at 1:40 am

        Hi there! Thank you so much! I hope you try out more of my cookie recipes! 🙂

        Reply
    5. Carlee says

      November 28, 2018 at 10:18 am

      Amazing! This is so yum!

      Reply
      • Lainey says

        February 18, 2020 at 5:41 pm

        Thank you so much for your kind words, Carlee. I appreciate it!

        Reply
    6. David Brightwell says

      April 09, 2020 at 6:45 pm

      The ingredients include 1/4 cup of cocoa powder but it is not mentioned in the mixing instructions. I
      combined it with the flour before adding to the wet ingredients. The cookies came out looking like chocolate cake instead of red velvet. Is the amount of cocoa accurate, because it appeared to be too much?

      Reply
      • Lainey says

        November 18, 2020 at 1:20 am

        Hi David, I’m so sorry! Fixed it on the recipe card. 🙂 Yes it’s correct, the cookies were almost cakelike. 🙂

        Reply

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