These Red velvet cookies are incredibly easy to make and so delicious! If you are short on time but want delicious cookies that takes less than thirty minutes, this red velvet cookies recipe is for you! Omit the red food coloring and go straight for a red velvet cake mix to save time but not to skip on flavor.

The classic red velvet cake never disappoints. It only makes sense that I love to make these red velvet cookies for Valentine’s Day parties and sometimes I serve them as Christmas cookies during the holiday season. I add holiday sprinkles instead of white hearts and bring them to cookie exchanges.

These cookies are soft, chewy, and bold with a festive red color. My kids love to place the heart sprinkles in the mix – so much so that I have to make sure they don’t go overboard.

How to make Red Velvet Cookies

Feast your eyes on these delicious and moist red velvet cookies. It’s hard to have just one! This is one of my favorite red velvet recipes for so many reasons. These chewy red velvet cookies have the best chocolate flavor.

What ingredients do you need to make red velvet cake cookies?

This red velvet cookie recipe is simple and doesn’t require many ingredients.

Dry Ingredients:

• 1 box red velvet cake mix – skip the red food coloring and use this cake mix.
• ¼-½ cup miniature heart sprinkles

Wet ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• ½ cup vegetable oil

Supplies

• Baking Sheet – use this to place the cookie dough on.
• Parchment Paper – make sure to place this on the cookie sheet first.
• Large Mixing Bowl – to mix ingredients
• Rubber Spatula
• Medium Cookie Scoop or Spoon
• Measuring cup
• Use an electric mixer or a stand mixer with a paddle attachment to mix ingredients.
• Cooling rack

How to make red velvet cookies

Follow these simple steps to create one of the best red velvet desserts I’ve ever tasted:

1. The first step is to preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. The second step is to line a cookie sheet with parchment paper, and set it aside.
3. In a large bowl, combine cake mix, eggs, and vegetable oil. Mix at a medium speed. The dough will become thick, continue folding the mixture with a cake spatula until all dry cake mix spots are gone. Make sure you get the sides of the bowl.

4. Fold in sprinkles.

5. Using a medium cookie scoop, scoop cookies in a cookie form onto parchment paper, 2-3 inches apart.

6. Bake cookies in a 350-degree oven for 10 minutes.
7. Allow the cookies to cool on a wire rack for five minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool.
8. Enjoy! Serve the red velvet cake mix cookies with a glass of milk.

Tips

• Use a cookie scoop to get a good amount of cake batter to roll into balls.
• Place the cookies in these decorative Kraft boxes as gifts for Valentine’s Day!

How to store red velvet cookies

• Keep these cookies in the fridge or freezing for the best results and longevity.
• Serve cookies at room temperature.
• Baked cookies will keep in the freezer for up to 3 or 4 weeks. Make sure the cookies are fully cooled before freezing.
• They can be stored in an airtight container in a cool, dry pantry style setting, but they won’t last as long.

Recipe variations

• Don’t have red velvet cake mix? Use regular cake mix and add liquid food coloring or red gel food coloring to your mix.
• Add white chocolate chips, semisweet chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips into the mixed cake batter with the sprinkles to add more flavor.
• Make red velvet sandwich cookies by putting white cream cheese frosting in the middle of two cookies. Kids love these!
• Add frosting to the tops of the cookies and serve!

More Delicious Cookies You Will Love

• Best Christmas Cookies– crazy good cookies for the holiday!
• Pumpkin cookies – sugar cookies that are perfect for Halloween!

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