Red Velvet Cake has been a beloved dessert for generations, known for its striking appearance and delectable flavor.
But have you ever thought about transforming this classic cake into bite-sized cookies? If not, you're in for a treat!
Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies are a delightful spin on the traditional cake, offering a convenient, quick, and delicious way to enjoy the rich, velvety taste of red velvet in a more portable form.
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Why You Will Love This Recipe
Let’s start with easy! Using a cake mix simplifies the baking process, making it fast and easy to mix up the dough and get started on the baking.
These cookies capture that delicious red velvet flavor – a blend of cocoa with a slight tartness, with a smooth and light texture. An extra pop of sweetness comes from white chocolate chips.
The vivid red and white color is perfect for Christmas cookie trays, but if you need a Valentine’s Day cookie, this recipe delivers!
Ingredients Needed
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How to Make Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies
Starting with cake mix means you only need three more ingredients: eggs, oil, and white chocolate chips.
Add the eggs and oil to the dry cake mix and stir well until completely combined. Then add the white chocolate chips and stir to evenly distribute.
Cover the bowl and refrigerate the dough for at least 15 minutes. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Once the dough is chilled and firm, measure out the dough and place on the prepared baking sheet, spaced about 2 -3 inches apart. I use a medium cookie scoop for these cookies. It holds 2 tablespoons, which makes a nice medium-sized cookie.
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Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. The cookies will be spread out but still puffy, the edges lightly golden brown. Leave the cookies on the baking sheet for at least 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Substitutions and Variations
If you want to change things up a little, use this recipe as a starting point and make it your own. You could use semi-sweet instead of white chocolate chips, or maybe do half of each.
If you feel like the frosting is the best part of red velvet cake (no shame in that!) then skip the chips and frost with cream cheese frosting. Yum!
You could also dust the tops of the cookies with sanding sugar before baking for a more “sparkly” look.
If making these cookies for a holiday cookie tray, I would use a small cookie scoop and bake for 9 to 10 minutes.
More Easy Cookies to add to your Holiday Trays
If you love cake mix hacks, try some Funfetti Cake Mix cookies - easy to customize with sprinkles to suit every occasion!
How about a brownie mix? You can make peanut butter cup brownie bites or brownie mix crinkle cookies - better buy 2 boxes!
And they might sound fancy, but French Christmas cookies are actually very easy, take only 6 ingredients, and make a batch big enough for Christmas cookie exchanges.
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Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 box Red Velvet cake mix 15.25 ounces
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup canola oil
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine cake mix, oil and eggs. Stir until a smooth dough forms. Add the white chocolate chips and stir to evenly distribute throughout the dough. Cover and refrigerate at least 15 minutes to firm the dough.1 box Red Velvet cake mix, 2 eggs, ½ cup canola oil, 1 cup white chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Make 1 to 2-inch balls of the chilled dough and place on the baking sheet, spaced 2-3 inches apart. I use a medium (2 tablespoon) cookie scoop for this.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Cool at least 5 minutes on the baking sheet before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition
Nutrition values are estimates only, using online calculators. Please verify using your own data.
rob
I use the water the cake mix called for, was it omitted on purpose?
Sula
The water was omitted on purpose. Adding it would make the batter much too runny to form into a cookie.
Netti
These were delicious!
I made them exactly as you suggested and they made a nice big cookie perfect for my afternoon tea break.
I’ll definitely make them again and next time I going to follow your suggestion to make them smaller for a Christmas cookie plate.
Love the white chips in there. But I do miss frosting so maybe I’ll try that too. Do you have a recipe?
Either way we loved them and they’ll be a regular for us ☺️
Sula
Yes I recommend cream cheese frosting if you'd rather frost. https://sulaandspice.com/pumpkin-bars-with-cream-cheese-frosting/
Sherry Ronning
I had a box of red velvet cake mix that I needed to use and came across your recipe for your cookie recipe. Your recipe is super easy to make with only 4 ingredients and my family eat the whole batch in one day!
Sula
LOL time for another batch!