Red Velvet Cookies
Beautifully red cookies flavored with cocoa powder and creamy white chocolate chips!
Equipment
- Hand mixer or stand mixer
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ½ cup light brown sugar packed
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons gel red food coloring
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Using a stand mixer or hand mixer, beat together the butter and sugar until creamy.
- Add in the egg, red food coloring, and vanilla and beat again.
- Add in the all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and mix until the cookie dough is formed.
- Add in the white chocolate chips and mix until evenly distributed.
- Using a cookie scoop or your hands, form cookie balls.
- After rolling into balls, freeze for 30 minutes.
- While the cookies chill, preheat your oven to 375F.
- Remove the cookies from the freezer and bake for 10-12 minutes.
- After baking, let the cookies set on the tray for 10 minutes to continue baking.
Notes
This recipe calls for gel food coloring. Other food colorings may not act in the same way to brightly color your cookies.
Don't skip cooling your cookie dough. This will result in flat cookies that are not chewy.