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Frosted Red Velvet Cookies

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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Red Velvet Cookies
  • 1/2 cup butter softened
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp white vinegar
  • 1-2 tsp red gel food coloring
  • 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp cornstarch
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
Cream Cheese Frosting
  • 4 oz cream cheese softened
  • 3 tbsp butter softened
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup powdered sugar

Equipment

  • 1 medium cookie scoop
  • 2 lined cookie sheets line with silicone sheets or parchment paper
  • 1 Mixer
  • 1 Measuring Cups
  • 1 Measuring Spoons
  • 1 mixing bowl
  • 1 cooling rack

Method
 

Red Velvet Cookies
  1. Preheat oven to 350. Line baking sheets and set aside
  2. Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, cornstarch and salt in a small bowl. Set aside.
  3. Cream butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar together in mixer until creamy and smooth. About 1 to 2 min.
  4. Whisk in egg, vanilla, vinegar and food coloring until combined.
  5. Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Do not over mix.
  6. Using medium cookie scoop, scoop cookies out onto prepared cookie sheets. You should get about 24 cookies.
  7. Lightly press down tops of cookies to flatten.
  8. Bake cookies for 10 min.
  9. Cool cookies for about 15 min on cookie sheet before removing to a cooling rack.
Cream Cheese Frosting
  1. With mixer, mix together cream cheese and butter until fluffy and smooth. About 2 min.
  2. Add powdered sugar and vanilla and whip for 3-5 min.
  3. Once cookies are completely cooled, top with frosting.

Notes

  • 10 min baking time is for one tray of 12 cookies.  If baking both trays at once, you may want to watch closely after 10 min, and possibly add up to another 5 minutes.