Since I’ve always been completely enamored with Red Velvet (red food coloring and all!!), it seems like the right thing to do to share a red velvet cookie recipe with you. These cookies are properly chewy and rich and wonderful. They are perfect for holiday cookie platters or cookie exchanges. But since everyone seems to like red velvet so much, they are perfect to bake and eat any time of year!
Red Velvet Lover’s Cookbook:
This recipe comes from a book by my friend Deborah Harroun: Red Velvet Lover’s Cookbook. First of all, Deborah is a good friend of mine who writes the blog Taste and Tell. She shares so many awesome ideas for family-friendly recipes. She’s one of the most creative bloggers I know! And this was Deborah’s first book- yippee! If you are a fan of the ever-popular red velvet cake (my absolute favorite), you’ll love to have this book and try out some of the other innovative ideas for incorporating the red velvet flavor! You’ll find recipes for things like Red Velvet Crepes, Red Velvet Waffles, Red Velvet Cheesecake, Red Velvet Gooey Butter Bars, Red Velvet Truffles and so much more. It’s a fun book to have in your cookbook collection, for sure!
How to make Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies:
Some gooey butter cookie recipes out there begin with a cake mix, but not this recipe! As with most cookie recipes, you’ll mix the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients separately. The dry mix here includes, flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. The wet mix includes cream cheese, butter, egg and red food coloring. Then you’ll combine the two and refrigerate the dough until firm. When ready to bake, the dough is rolled into balls and then rolled in powdered sugar. While baking, they’ll sink down into the cookie sheet and crackle apart as you can see in the photos.
Aren’t they so completely festive? I love the crackle. I love the powdered sugar, snowy adornment. And I love the chewy, gooey, red velvet flavor of these cookies! They are perfect for Christmas. You need a big, tall glass of extremely cold milk to go with your red velvet gooey butter cookies, right? Of course you do. Enjoy!
Here are a few more red velvet recipes you might like to try:
Red Velvet Cupcakes Red Velvet Cheesecake Cookies Gluten Free Red Velvet Cupcakes Red Velvet Cut-Out Cookies Red Velvet Shortbread Cookies
