Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies {Your new favorite Christmas Cookie Recipe!} (2024)

FAQs

What is the best topping for red velvet cookies? ›

Cream Cheese Frosting – A silky, tangy cream cheese frosting is the perfect compliment to these cookies. They taste exactly like classic red velvet cake in cookie form!

What flavor is red velvet? While there are cocoa undertones, red velvet is not chocolate cake because it balances both chocolate and vanilla flavors. It contains cocoa but not the same quantity as traditional chocolate cake, resulting in a more subtle cocoa flavor and tanginess due to the buttermilk and vinegar.

Today, red velvet cake is made by combining cocoa powder, butter, sugar, eggs, and flour as well as buttermilk, vinegar, and red food coloring that gives the cake its iconic red tint. In a classic red velvet cake, cream cheese frosting is paired but the cake can be really be frosted with anything.

Red Velvet often comes paired with a Cream Cheese Frosting. However, there are so many other pairings that work perfectly with Red Velvet, such as: Classic Vanilla, Bourbon Vanilla, Chai, White Chocolate, and Cookies + Cream.

If your dough isn't red enough, add more coloring until you get your desired color.

Tinting the Dough

Tinting the cookie dough red is optional. If you skip the food coloring, the cookies will be light brown. For the pictured cookies, I use 3/4 teaspoon gel food coloring.

At Long Last, Oreo Brings Back Its 'Most Requested' Flavor. Red Velvet Oreos are back, baby! For years now, since Nabisco discontinued Red Velvet Oreos from shelves in 2020 to make room for other flavors, fans of the crimson-colored sandwich cookies have been clamoring for their return.

Here's a few reasons why I love these cookies: A delicious twist on the classic red velvet cake. All the classic flavor of red velvet cake in cookie form. The mild chocolate flavor with hints of vanilla simply melts in your mouth.

Since the late 20th century, red velvet cake and red velvet cupcakes have become increasingly popular in the US and many European countries, especially around Christmas and more recently (since the 2010s) Valentine's Day.

What makes red velvet cake so special? ›

While red velvet cake is technically a cocoa cake, there is a key difference between standard chocolate cake and red velvet cake. Chocolate cake recipes traditionally use Dutch-processed cocoa, while red velvet cake uses unprocessed cocoa, a more acidic ingredient that produces a deeper, more intense chocolate flavor.

The flavor of blue velvet cake is the same as a red velvet cake—fluffy vanilla cake with a hint of chocolate slathered in tangy cream cheese frosting. It is easy to make a blue velvet cake from scratch with a blend of cocoa powder, vinegar, buttermilk, and bright blue food coloring.

The cocoa powder is used in less quantity and the taste develops by the mixing of vinegar and buttermilk with the cocoa powder. The recipe involves many ingredients in small quantity. The frosting- if used cream cheese is an expensive element in itself.

The main ingredients in red velvet cake are not good for dogs, including chocolate, wheat flour, and sugar. In particular, chocolate is toxic to dogs because it contains methylxanthines like caffeine and theobromine, which dogs cannot break down as we can. Chocolate poisoning can cause severe symptoms and even death.

Popular in the southern U.S., red velvet cake is a vanilla cake with a few tablespoons of cocoa powder and red food coloring mixed in. Vinegar and buttermilk bring some acid to the batter, adding a bit of tanginess that balances out the sweet cream cheese-butter frosting that is standard.

Royal icing creates clean lines and takes on color to create a vibrant look. It also works for detailed piping and decorating, when you want to make a gingerbread house or small designs.

Sprinkles & Candies: A couple favorite colorful sprinkles are these and these. Marshmallows are a popular decoration/garnish with kids. Other options are mini chocolate chips, mini M&Ms, and crushed candy canes. Piping Bags/Tips: Choose what you want guests to use to decorate.

Royal icing is what professional bakers typically use for this kind of cookie decorating. It's made with either whipped egg whites or whipped meringue powder along with powdered sugar and water, and it tends to be a little more stable and thicker than straight powdered sugar icing.

While red velvet cake is technically a cocoa cake, there is a key difference between standard chocolate cake and red velvet cake. Chocolate cake recipes traditionally use Dutch-processed cocoa, while red velvet cake uses unprocessed cocoa, a more acidic ingredient that produces a deeper, more intense chocolate flavor.