Sinful Red Velvet Cookies

Submitted by Im cookin

"This is based on a Paula Deen recipe, so it's quite rich ;) This is by far the most luxurious cookie I make. They never last long. They're painfully easy to make, which may be bad news for your waistline."

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photo by SharonChen

Ready In:: 17mins
Ingredients:: 6
Yields:: 24-30 cookies
Serves:: 5-7

ingredients

1 (8 ounce) brick cream cheese, room temperature
¹⁄₂ cup butter, room temperature (1 stick)
1 egg
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 (18 ounce) box red velvet cake mix
confectioners' sugar, for rolling and dusting

directions

In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream the cream cheese and butter until smooth.
Beat in the egg.
Beat in the vanilla extract.
Beat in the cake mix.
Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours to firm up so that you can roll the batter into balls.I've chilled batter overnight and it comes out fine.
After batter has chilled and you're ready to make the cookies, preheat the oven to 350°F.
Roll the chilled batter into tablespoon sized balls and then roll them in confectioner's sugar.
Place on an ungreased cookie sheet, 2 inches apart.
Bake 12 minutes. The cookies should remain soft and gooey.
Cool completely and sprinkle with more confectioners' sugar, if desired.
To make these devilishly rich, I also top the cookies with cream cheese frosting, which is simple to make. I use Bev's Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe #55530), but double the vanilla. Or, if I'm making them for people I know have more of a savory tooth than sweet, I'll triple it to a full tablespoon.

Questions & Replies

Why are you using cake mix?

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Reviews

Great taste. A little messy to roll. Put spray on your hands or use plastic gloves. I stuck in a Hershey kiss after they came out of the oven. My friend was going to put cream cheese frosting on them insteadnof the powdered sugar

Juliev320
I agree with several other reviewers. This is not a crispy cookie. This is more like a mini cake. That is not a negative. It is still very good. The batter is challenging to mix, as it is very thick and trying to mix with a blender only scattered red batter in the kitchen. Baking 12 minutes was prefect. To me, it tasted like a small piece of cake without the icing. Not a very sweet cookie, so it needs the powdered sugar at least. I could see how using some cream cheese or white icing would make this more like a mini red velvet cake. Perfect treat to add to your holiday party. Another reviewer suggests using gloves when rolling out in balls because it will turn your hands red. To roll the cookies in the sugar, I put powdered sugar in a cup. I dropped the cookie in and used spoon to help roll the cookie ball in. Helped to decrease some of the mess. <br/>Once again, if you do not expect these to come out like a crispy cookie, and more like a cookie sized mini cake, I think you will really like these.

maxona_1172240
I baked these for my classmates and they LOVED it! My one classmate said it makes you "want to lick it off your hand". I didn't refrigerate it as long as it was directed and I was in a hurry so they separated easily but my classmates didn't have a problem with it. I also added 1/2 bag of white chocolate chips and it paired well.

CareBear Cupcake
I just made this last week and oh boy were they a hit! They came out great. Reviews i got from people: decadent, luscious, even SEXY! I added chocolate chips (half a bag) to the dough, it gave a little something extra. I'm new to the baking world so i didn't have a cookie sheet, so i just used my cupcake tins... which actually were perfect! b/c then all the cookies were the SAME size. I was able to make perfect sandwiches using a cream cheese frosting :)

Weird Al Loser
Super tasty and moist. I made a batch and took these cookies to work, coworkers loved them very much! Even though I left the mixture in the fridge over night, it's not that easy to roll. The cookies did expend extensively after baking. Keeping enough space in between two cookies is definitely necessary.

SharonChen

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Tweaks

Soooo delicious; definitely a crowd-pleaser. I couldn't find red velvet cake mix so I used chocolate cake mix and added red food coloring for the RED!

monyango88
Add both semi sweet and white chocolate morsels If batter is too thick, add a little milk After baking, transfer to a drying rack. If cooled on a plate, they don’t set up as well.

Pesh9546
These cookies were really good and I got a lot of compliments on them. Instead of leaving them as balls before I baked them, I flattened them slightly with the bottom of a glass for a more uniform shape. I found that if I baked them for 12 minutes, they got a little bit overcooked so I cut the time back to 10 minutes and they were perfect. I stored them in the fridge overnight and I think I liked them better the next day. I also liked them better when I added the cream cheese icing (I used Recipe #297863 instead of the suggested frosting) because they really tasted like Red Velvet Cake. The only problem I had with the recipe is that the hand mixer and this batter DID NOT get along well. After I added the cake mix, it got really thick and the mixer went haywire and I wound up with bright red batter spattered all over my kitchen. It looked like a scene out of Psycho and was very difficult to clean up. I would suggest using a stand mixer or mixing it by hand to avoid the giant mess.

PSU_Lioness