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Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookiesare soft and moist and loaded with cream cheese chips and ready in under 20 minutes and you only need 6 ingredients to make them.
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If you're a red velvet flavor lover, these cookies are just what you need. But if you want some more red velvet yummy treats, try myRed Velvet Cake Balls recipe.
Why These Cookies Work
I love taking a box of cake mix and turning it into some fantastic cookies with a soft texture like these Whoopie Pies. Such a fun shortcut recipe but what really makes these cookies special is that classic Red Velvet flavor and look. You eat with your eyes first, ya know.
It's quick, fast, and ready in no time- with no need to chill dough wrapped in plastic wrap or roll dough out like other red velvet cookie recipes. Kids and adults go crazy for this red velvet cookie recipe. Great for Valentine's Day, Easter, holidays, any special occasions, or just because you have a hankering for some tasty cookies.
Simple Ingredients
- Cake mix: Red velvet cake mix, any brand it doesn't matter.Duncan Hinesseems to be the most available.
- All purpose flour: The extra all purpose flour gives them structure and helps them hold their shape.
- Large eggs: Room temp eggs make it easier to mix into anycake mixesorcookie recipes
- Oil:Vegetable oilorcanola oil. Could swap this out formelted butter
- Vanilla extract
- Baking chips: You can use cream cheese chips orwhite chocolate chips
How to Make the Best Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies
- Step 1: Using a hand mixer and alarge bowl,combine cake mix, flour, eggs, oil, and vanilla. Mix together well.
- Step 2: Use a wooden spoon to carefully fold inwhite chocolate chipsto the cookie dough in thelarge mixing bowl.
- Step 3: Linebaking sheetwithparchment paper, use a cookie scoop to makecookie dough balls, and place them on the linedbaking sheet. Add a few extra chocolate chips.
- Step 4: Bake and then remove cookies from the oven to cool on a sheet for a few minutes (where they'll continue to bake a bit) before transferring them to awire rackto finish cooling.
Easy Cookie Recipe Tips and Variations
- Add some frosting.If the baking chocolate chips weren't enough in these cookies, try adding somecream cheese icingor plain vanilla icing to your cookies. You could also ditch thewhite chocolate chipsor cream cheese chips and just add some frosting to yourdelicious cookie.
- Change out the baking chips.Instead ofwhite chocolate chips, you can use other flavored baking chips, or use a super nice, high quality white chocolate bar and break it into small chunks.
- Change out the cake mix.You could try a white cake mix, a yellow cake mix, or even achocolate cake mixand it should be yummy.
- When scooping the dough out, use a 2-inch cookie scoop or make 2 Tablespoon-sizedcookie dough balls.
- Melt some of your favorite white chocolate and make awhite chocolate drizzleto use on the cookies. It's agreat optionto make theseeasy cookiesstand out from others.
Recipe Faq's
Do these cookies taste like cake?
Nobody knows that you've taken a shortcut and made cookies using a cake mix. They aren't cake like at all. Not only do they look like cookies, but the taste like delicious, normalred velvet cake cookies
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Why use a cake mix to make cookies
The ingredients are premade making this aminimal effort,easy recipe to use to make a quick and delicious dessert.
Why add extra flour to the cake mix?
I know it seems silly, but adding the extra flour helps give thesechewy cookies that puffy look. It helps them get the right structure, shape, and helps them bake up, rather than just spread out on thebaking sheet.
The best way to store these cookies
Theseeasy Red Velvet Cookies should be stored properly for best results. Use anairtight container to keep thebaked cookies for up to 5-7 days atroom temperature. Keep them longer by freezing up to 3 months.
More Cookie Recipes
- White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
- Old Fashioned Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies
- Reese's Pieces Peanut Butter Cookies
- Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies
Wendie
Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookiesare soft and moist and are ready in under 20 minutes and you only need 6 ingredients to make them.
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 9 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 20 Cookies
Calories 204 kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 box red velvet cake mix any brand
- 1/4 cup of all purpose flour.
- 2 large eggs
- 1/3 cup of oil
- 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups of cream cheese chips or white chocolate chips, divided
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl using a hand mixer add the cake mix, flour eggs, oil and vanilla and mix until combined.
Fold in the chocolate chips.
Using a 2 inch cookie scoop or 2 tablespoons place dough balls onto the baking sheet. Place a few chocolate chips into the top of the cookie.
Bake for 8-9 minutes, remove from the oven and let cool. They will continue to bake a bit.
Store in an airtight container for 5-7 days or freeze up to 3 months.
Notes
You can purchase Cream Cheese Chips from Amazon here!
These easy Red Velvet Cookies should be stored properly for best results. Use an airtight container to keep the baked cookies up to 5-7 days at room temperature. Or place them in a ziplock freezer bag and freeze for up to 3 months.
Nutrition
Serving: 1CookieCalories: 204kcalCarbohydrates: 24gProtein: 3gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0.03gCholesterol: 19mgSodium: 197mgPotassium: 116mgFiber: 1gSugar: 16gVitamin A: 28IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 62mgIron: 1mg
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Janet V RossI thought I had tried every cake mix cookie until I saw this one. Will be making soon. My favorite so far is devils food cake mix and peanut butter chip
