Red Velvet Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
These homemade Red Velvet Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting are a chewy red velvet cookie with rich cream cheese frosting on top. It's a no chill cookie dough recipe perfect anytime of the year, not excluding Valentine's Day and Christmas!
Servings: 18 cookies
Ingredients
Red Velvet Cookies:
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg + 1 yolk
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp white vinegar
- 2-3 tsp red food coloring, gel or liquid*
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened to room temperature
- 4 Tbsp unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
- dash of salt
Instructions
Red Velvet Cookies:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a large bowl with hand mixer (or with a standing mixer), cream butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Add in the egg and egg yolk, and mix until combined.
- Next, add in vanilla extract, white vinegar, and red food coloring. Mix until combined and the red food coloring is well distributed.**
- Add in the flour, cornstarch, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Mix until well combined. (The dough will be very thick.)
- Roll cookie dough into about 1 - 1 1/2 Tbsp balls (you can use a cookie scoop or your hands) and place them evenly apart on the cookie sheet.
- Gently flatten the tops of the cookie dough, if desired. This ensures they bake with a flat surface, which makes frosting the cookies easier. However, they will cook fine if you choose not to flatten them.
- Bake for 9-10 minutes, or until the edges just look set (they will continue to bake as they cool on the pan so we don’t want to over bake them).
- Allow to cool on the baking sheet for 5-10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Cream Cheese Frosting:
- With a standing mixer or an electric hand mixer, cream butter and cream cheese together until well combined.
- Add in powdered sugar and a pinch of salt (salt helps cut through the sweetness of the frosting) and mix until well combined.
- Lastly add in the vanilla extract and mix until combined.
- Using a piping bag or an offset spatula (a knife or back of spoon works as well), frost each cookie. Top with sprinkles, if desired.
- Or, crumble a cookie into small crumbs and top the cookies with the crumbs.
Notes
*Food Coloring: You can use gel food coloring or liquid food coloring. Gel food coloring gives a richer red color, and you most likely only need 2 tsp. If using liquid food coloring, you will probably need 3 tsp.
**Alternately, you can add in the vanilla, vinegar, and red food coloring after you have mixed in the dry ingredients. It will work fine either way!
**Alternately, you can add in the vanilla, vinegar, and red food coloring after you have mixed in the dry ingredients. It will work fine either way!