Name: Red Velvet Cookies Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 33 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: cookies
Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter; 2 tablespoons butter flavored shortening; 1/2 cup sugar; 1/2 cup brown sugar; 1 egg; 1 tsp vanilla; 1 tsp red food coloring; 1 1/2 cups flour; 1 tsp baking soda; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/3 cup cocoa powder; 3/4 cup white chocolate chips, optional but great; Confectioner's sugar optional for dusting on top.

Red Velvet Cookies Recipe is a holiday favorite for Christmas or Valentine’s Day. Nothing says Happy Valentine’s Day like Red Velvet batter.

So whether you are bringing cookies into the office or want to surprise someone you love, here is a simple cookie recipe that will say it all. Check the other amazing red velvet donuts and red velvet cakes.

These Red Velvet cookies were really easy to make. Not as easy as Red velvet cookies made with cake mix. We saved that for our Valentines Day Donuts.

I have found that most red velvet recipes are not very moist but I like the addition of white chocolate chips. This gave them a little extra texture and flavoring.

What makes a recipe Red Velvet?

Red velvet cake is traditionally a red, red-brown, crimson or scarlet colored chocolate layer cake, layered with cream cheese frosting. Now there are so many variations and really the addition of cocoa and red food coloring and you have a red velvet recipe.

How to make Red Velvet Cookie Dough

If you can make a chocolate chip cookie dough, then there is nothing unusual about these except the addition of the red food coloring.

You see how bright red the batter looks after the addition of the red food coloring.

However, once you add the cocoa powder it is a richer dark color.

Can I Make Cookie Dough and Freeze it?

This is the perfect cookie dough recipe to make ahead and freeze. Simply roll the batter into balls and place onto a sheet pan and allow them to freeze.

Red Velvet Cookies Recipe with White Chocolate Chips

Place them in a Ziploc bag and put them in the freezer. Then just bake them a few extra minutes or allow the dough to defrost first.

Allow cooling completely before stacking on a platter.

Thought they needed a little powdered sugar on top too. It was too boring on the platter.

These would be perfect for a cookie exchange party, on a white platter with red flowers in the middle.

For Valentine’s Day you can box them up with a little ribbon and you will make anyone’s day.

Pin this for your next Valentines Day Cookie Session and be sure to check out our other fun Valentines Day Cookie Recipes.