Make Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies with just three simple ingredients! Spread cream cheese frosting over top for the perfect Valentines Day cookies.
Quick
5 ingredients
You’ll Learn: How to turn boxed cake mix into festive cookies
Worth It: It builds a freezer stash for stress-free snacks later
Bonus: Flexible toppings and serving ideas to keep it interesting
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Perfect for Valentines Day – make a festive holiday treat without a lot of effort! Use the red velvet cake mix as a shortcut to make the cookie dough.
- Only 3 ingredients needed – you really only need the red velvet cake mix, eggs and oil to make these cookies. Any other ingredients are just extras to make them even more delicious.
- Classic flavors – red velvet cake with cream cheese icing is one of my favorite desserts. This simple cookie recipe is the easiest way to make this classic dessert.
- Turn into sandwich cookies – make or buy some cream cheese frosting, dye it pink with a bit of food coloring and spread it over half the cookies. Then, press two cookies together to make delicious and festive sandwich cookies. Serve these Valentines sandwich cookies to family and friends or pack them up as a small, sweet gift!
Kitchen Tools
- Mixing bowls – one large mixing bowl and one small mixing bowl
- Liquid measuring cup
- Whisk and spatula
- Scoop for scooping dough balls
- Baking sheet and parchment paper or silicone mat
- Wire rack for cooling cookies
Use a short cut to make valentines day celebrations easier
I used cake mix to make this recipe super easy. Anyone with a box of cake mix, a bowl and an oven cake make these festive cookies and everyone else will think you slaved away all day.
I also like to make this Strawberry Valentines Snack Mix for a SUPER easy Valentines Day treat!! Pack it up in little baggies and hand it out as Valentines.
If you’re staying in and watching a movie, you need to make a batch of this Sweet and Salty Strawberry Popcorn.
Ingredients
- Red velvet cake mix – the boxed cake mix is the backbone of this cookie recipe. Thanks to the balanced cake mix all you need are eggs and oil in addition to it.
- Large eggs – eggs, oil and cake mix are the only 3 ingredients you need to make rich, chewy, and pillowy red velvet cookies.
- Vegetable oil – I used refined coconut oil for this recipe, but you can use any neutral tasting vegetable oil. You could also use melted butter for a richer flavor
- Sugar – roll the chilled cookie dough in granulated sugar before baking. This leaves a gorgeous crinkled texture on the exterior of each cookie.
- Cream cheese frosting – make a homemade frosting or buy one at the store. The combination of red velvet cake and cream cheese icing is perfection and its even better in cookie form.
- Red food coloring – dye the cream cheese icing pink and use it as a festive filling to turn these into sandwich cookies
ingredient substitutions
The red from the red velvet cake mix is what makes these cookies perfect for valentines day. That said, you can use any kind of cake mix to make easy and delicious cake mix cookies. You can also make strawberry cake mix cookies for a festive Valentines treat!
Try a box of devils food cake mix and some extra chocolate chips to make rich and gooey chocolate cookies. You can still make them Valentine’s Day cookies by filling them with icing and rolling the sides of the icing in heart shaped sprinkles or pink and red sprinkles.
I used refined coconut oil for these red velvet cake cookies, but you can use any neutral oil. Most people use a standard vegetable oil like canola oil.
Roll the cookie dough balls in powdered sugar instead of granulated sugar before you lay them on the cookie sheets. The powdered sugar makes them look like red velvet crinkle cookies.
Add a teaspoon of vanilla extract to intensify the flavor of the cookies. Feel free to add chocolate chips or white chocolate chips to these cookies to add a little something extra!
How to make red velvet cake mix cookies
Step 1: Mix and chill dough
To begin, whisk eggs and oil together in a large bowl. Then, open red velvet cake mix and add the cake mix to the mixing bowl (Image 1).
Fold the cake mix into the eggs and oil until fully combined. Cover the bowl with a lid or plastic wrap and place in the fridge to chill for one hour (Image 2).
Step 2: Roll into dough balls and bake
After one hour, remove the red velvet cookie dough from the fridge. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Scoop out two tablespoons of dough for each cookie dough ball. Roll into a tight ball and then, if desired, roll each dough ball into sugar (Image 3). The sugar adds a beautiful decorative exterior.
Place each dough ball on the baking sheet with lots of space between them (Image 4). Bake at 325F for 12-14 minutes. You may need to bake these in more than one batch.
Step 3: Cool and add frosting
Remove the red velvet cookies from the oven and place them on a cooling rack. Allow the cookies to cool completely.
If desired, mix red food coloring into cream cheese frosting until you make a light pink icing (Image 5). Spread icing between two cooled red velvet cake mix cookies to make cookie sandwiches (Image 6).
Storage and freezing
Store this red velvet cookie recipe in an airtight container on the counter for a few days or in the fridge for up to 5 days. I like to keep them on the fridge so that the cream cheese frosting does not melt out.
You can store the fully baked cookies or the unbaked cookie dough balls in the freezer for up to 3 months. If you freeze the unbaked dough balls, allow them to defrost until slightly soft on the counter. Then, bake according to instructions below.
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You can find the full recipe below. If you make this recipe, please rate and review it in the comments, or share it with me on Instagram!
You can find the full recipe below. If you make this recipe, please rate and review it in the comments, or share it with me on Instagram!
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Recipe
Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 15.25oz box of red velvet cake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup neutral oil – coconut oil or vegetable oil
- Optional – 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- Optional – 1 can cream cheese frosting
- Optional – red food coloring
Instructions
- Whisk together eggs and oil. Pour cake mix into the bowl and fold in with a spatula.
- Cover the bowl and chill in the fridge for one hour. Remove from the fridge and preheat the oven to 325F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a cookie scoop, scoop out 2 tbsp per cookie until you have 12 balls. Roll each into a tight ball. If desired, roll each ball in sugar.
- Place each cookie dough on a baking sheet with lots of space between them – cook in 2 batches if needed. Bake for 12-14 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cool completely on a wire rack. If desired, mix food dye into icing to make pink icing. Spread icing between two cookies to make cookie sandwiches.
Nutrition Information
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