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

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With a pretty red sparkle, these fabulous red velvet cake mix cookies will be the star of your holiday events. Perfect for holiday parties, cookie swaps, and even gifts for friends and neighbors. If you like candy cane kiss cookies, you’ll LOVE these!

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Amazing Candy Cane Kiss Cookies

Looking for some pretty red velvet cake mix cookies? If you were thinking that this Christmas needs something new, then these sparkly, delicious Candy Cane Kiss Cookies will be right up your alley!

Made with delicious Hershey’s Candy Cane Kisses, these fun Christmas cookies are the perfect easy recipe for your next cookie exchange or Christmas party.

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These Red Velvet Cookies start with a red velvet cake mix!

These Red Velvet cookies are really easy to make! They start with a fool-proof Red Velvet cake mix, along with just a few other ingredients. The batter is super moist, as it includes both butter and cream cheese! The dough is then rolled in red sugar sprinkles, and baked to perfection.

These red velvet cookies come out of the oven with a beautiful sparkle. While still hot, simply add a pretty red and white striped Candy Cane Kiss, and let cool. Aren’t they lovely?!

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Red velvet cake mix cookies perfect for just about any occasion!

One batch of these cookies makes nearly 4 dozen cookies, so these are perfect for putting together cookie plates to give to friends and neighbors. They’re also great for shipping to loved ones that live far away, or keeping on hand for holiday parties, or office & school events.

These would also be great for Valentine’s Day – simply add a white chocolate kiss in the center or any other seasonal Valentine’s day chocolate.

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These Red Velvet Candy Cane Kiss Cookies really are the perfect cookie for the holidays. Simple, easy to make, and beautiful enough to bring out for your fancy holiday parties! Enjoy! ~Erin

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OXO Good Grips Medium Cookie Scoop (Amazon Link) – The key to getting uniform cookies that are all the same size is to use a cookie scoop. I’ve had this OXO cookie scoop for years, and it works great!

Silicone Baking Mat – Set of 3 Half Sheet (Amazon Link) – One of my favorite baking tools are these silicone baking mats. I use them pretty much anytime I’m baking something on a sheet pan. Fantastic for cookies, and also great for roasting vegetables, sheet pan meals and even tater tots!

Nordic Ware Aluminum Half-Sheet Baking Pans (Amazon Link) – I’m currently obsessed with these baking sheets! Not only do they work wonderfully for cookies, but I love using them for sheet pan dinners, too!

If you loved these delicious Red Velvet Cookies, be sure to check out some of my other delicious Christmas cookie & candy recipes:

  • Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies
  • Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
  • Peppermint Red Velvet Fudge
  • Penguin Cookies
  • Rice Krispie Christmas Trees
  • Reindeer Pretzels
  • Double Chocolate Mint Truffle Cookies
  • Reese’s Pieces Cookies
  • White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
  • Chocolate Dipped Ritz Cracker Cookies
  • Chocolate Covered Cashews
  • Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookies

Here’s the recipe for these fantastic Red Velvet Candy Cane Kiss Cookies:

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Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies

Erin Indahl-Fink

With a pretty sparkle and topped with a candy cane kiss, these fabulous red velvet cake mix cookies will be the star of your holiday season. Excellent for a Christmas cookie exchange!

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Additional Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 25 minutes mins

Course Desserts

Cuisine American

Servings 4 dozen cookies

Calories 61 kcal

Equipment

  • Stand Mixer This KitchenAid Stand Mixer is a must-have tool for any home baker!

Ingredients

  • 1 (13.25 oz.) Red Velvet Cake Mix
  • 1 (8 oz. pkg.) cream cheese room temperature
  • 1/2 cup butter (1 stick) room temperature
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
  • 1 (3.25 oz. bottle) Red Sugar sprinkles
  • 2 pkgs. Hershey's Candy Cane Kisses about 48 kisses

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with a silicone making mat or parchment paper. Set aside.

  • Using a stand or hand mixer, cream together the butter and cream cheese. Add the egg and extract and cream together until fully incorporated and a smooth consistency. Gradually add the cake mix approximately one cup at a time, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl. Batter will be thick. Refrigerate the dough for 1-2 hours. This will help the dough be less sticking when handling and rolling into balls.

  • In a separate medium bowl (like a cereal bowl) pour about half of the red sugar sprinkles.

  • Roll cookie dough into 1" balls, and then roll the dough balls in the red sugar sprinkles. Place about 1 dozen cookie balls onto the prepared cookie sheets and bake at 350 for 9-10 minutes.

  • While cookies bake, unwrap the kisses, so they are ready to go when cookies come out of the oven. When cookies are done baking, immediately press a kiss into the center of the cookie, and let cookies cool on the sheet for 5 minutes.

  • Transfer cookies to cooling rack to cool completely. Serve right away or store in airtight container at room temperature. Can also freeze cookies, and bring to room temperature prior to serving.

Notes

Milk chocolate, dark chocolate or white chocolate kisses can also be substituted for the candy cane kisses.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 61kcalCarbohydrates: 11gProtein: 1gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 5mgSodium: 85mgSugar: 7g

Keyword red velvet cookies, red velvet cake mix cookies, candy cane kiss cookies

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

FAQs

What's the difference between red velvet and chocolate cookies? ›

Most chocolate desserts have large amounts of cocoa powder and/or melted chocolate bars giving them an intense chocolate flavor. Red velvet on the other hand is far more complex. It has a vanilla base, but with the raw cocoa powder it has a soft and velvety crumb and a subtle chocolate flavor.

Is Red Velvet just chocolate? ›

While Chocolate Cake is made primarily with cocoa powder and sometimes melted chocolate, Red Velvet Cake is made with a small amount of cocoa powder, but is also known for its signature bright red color, which is usually achieved by adding red food coloring to the batter.

Does red velvet cookie have a sister? ›

Red Vanilla Cake Cookie (Korean: 레드바닐라케이크 쿠키, redu banilla keikeu kuki) is one of the antagonist's sister, Red Velvet Cookie, She is a Protagonist In Cookie Run: Kingdom and an Epic Cookie released in The Red Velvet Castle Gates update, She is of class and her position is prioritized to the front.

What flavor is red velvet? ›

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.

Why are my red velvet cookies Brown? ›

If you skip the food coloring, the cookies will be light brown. For the pictured cookies, I use 3/4 teaspoon gel food coloring. You can control how vibrant the red color is, so use more or less depending on the color you'd like. You can find gel food coloring in craft stores, some grocery stores, or online.

Is red velvet more chocolate or vanilla? ›

Due to the fact that it uses cocoa powder rather than chocolate, red velvet cake is more subtle in chocolate flavor than a chocolate cake. In terms of the cocoa flavor concentration, we like to think of red velvet cake as somewhere between a vanilla/white cake and a chocolate cake.

What is the difference between red velvet and chocolate velvet? ›

Chocolate cake is flavored with cocoa powder, chocolate chips, or melted chocolate. On the other hand, though red velvet cake has cocoa powder that gives it a slightly chocolatey flavor, the buttermilk and vinegar add a tart edge making it different between the two.

Which cocoa powder is best for red velvet cake? ›

The Best Cocoa for Red Velvet Cake Is Natural Cocoa

Natural cocoa is the best cocoa for red velvet cake for two reasons. With a higher acidity, natural cocoa works with the cake's baking soda and buttermilk to leaven the cake to a tight, tender crumb. The results are an almost melt-in-your-mouth tender cake.

What kind of chocolate is red velvet? ›

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.

What toppings should I put on Red Velvet Cookie? ›

They envelop a zesty-sweet cream cheese frosting and are topped with an optional elegant drizzle of creamy white chocolate. Simply put, these red velvet sandwich cookies aren't just desserts; they're showstoppers, primed to captivate the spotlight at any event!

Is Red Velvet Cookie a boy or a girl? ›

Red Velvet Cookie is a fierce, intimidating leader who commands his army of Cake Monsters, but beneath his aggressive exterior he is very caring and fatherly towards the Cakes, showing genuine affection and concern towards their lives. He even gives the ones he likes most names like Chiffon and Cakeberus.

Who is purple yam cookie? ›

Purple Yam Cookie was designed by Naheun Ghim. Purple Yam Cookie's internal name is "cookie0134". Purple Yam Cookie's Korean voice actor, Min Seung-woo, provides the narration for the 1st anniversary celebration video on Cookie Run: Kingdom's Korean channel.

What pairs well with red velvet? ›

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.

Is red velvet a Christmas flavor? ›

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 is red velvet cookies made of? ›

Red velvet, if you weren't sure, is a mix of chocolate and vanilla – and red. The red colour typically comes from the mix of red food colouring, vinegar and buttermilk.

Is red velvet the same taste as chocolate? ›

Red velvet also has a bit of cocoa powder for a subtle chocolate taste, but thanks to buttermilk and vinegar, you can spot a tart tang that sets it apart. And wait, there's more than taste!

Why is red velvet just chocolate? ›

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.

What makes red velvet red? ›

Red velvet cake is traditionally a red, crimson, or scarlet-colored layer cake, layered with ermine icing. Traditional recipes do not use food coloring, with the red color possibly due to non-Dutched, anthocyanin-rich cocoa, and possibly due to the usage of brown sugar, formerly called red sugar.

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