I like you.
Have I failed to mention that lately?
Shoot.
You and your nice sayings and dinner ideas make my day.
Seriously. I’m super pleased that you’re here.
I made you cookies. These cookies are red and festive. I happen to think that they are all sorts of fantastic when paired with hot chocolate and eaten curled up on the couch with a good book.
(Clearly, cookies are best with chocolate and books. It means the world is quiet and tasty and leaving you the heck alone. Score.)
I think you need more time for you in your days. And these cookies in your house definitely demand it. Add them to your baking list already. (It’s okay if they bump something off. I won’t tell anyone.) Then, relax.
Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Cookies
recipe from How Sweet It Is
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp red food coloring
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Cream butter and sugars. Add egg and vanilla, mixing well. Beat in food coloring.
Stir in flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder until just combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
Drop by rounded teaspoon onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 10-12 minutes. Let cool slightly before transferring to wire racks.
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Oh, Sarah, that first picture has got me drooling! These cookies look so delicious and festive. Yum, yum, yum! Thanks for sharing!
Red velvet is everywhere this year. I don’t remember seeing it in cookie form, though. These are wonderful; like little packages of fun (which is much better than the huge fondant ribbon wrapped cakes I saw at Sam’s Club this morning). I like the idea of eating just one small morsel of red velvet versus an entire cake (of course, you will notice I said “idea”….there’s no telling what reality will bring!)
I have seen lots of Red velvet cakes and Red velvet cookies is so new to me. The colour of the cookies look very elegant!
Oh my word can I please eat the batter and the cookies?! I am red velvet obsessed and these cookies are just calling my name. I think I’ve died and gone to heaven after looking at your delicious cookies. YUM!
these are just dreamy…..and oh how I love when the world is quiet and tasty and leaving me alone….
I’ve never had red velvet anything! But with your recipe, this could soon change… ;)
You know what, why not?? I need a day to sit and sip hot chocolate with my girl instead of always DOING something. I love the cookies you share. We still enjoy a banana chocolate chunk muffin from time to time…
oooh I love this!
Ohhhh those cookies look so lovely and sounds very delicious. It will be so goegeous on the dinning table :)
can you believe I’ve never had a red velvet anything??
Look at those red cookies! Perfect for holidays or just baking cookies in general :) Oh, and I like you too haha
They look so light and chewy! The color is also gorgeous, my favorite in fact :)
Love red velvet! I need more cookie-hot chocolate-curled up with a book time!
I like you too. And I really like these cookies. Cookies, chocolate and a good book=triple LIKE.
I like your cookies. And your blog. These look fantastic! :)
Aw, thank you for making me cookies, that is so sweet of you! :) These cookies look so delicious. I’m looking for a new cookie recipe to bake for my coworkers, I think i’ve found a winner. Perhaps some red velvet and green velvet to be festive?
Umm…OH. MY. GOLL.
I like you too and I’m so happy that you made me cookies. :)
They’re beautiful, festive and perfect for a cookie exchange. Thank you for sharing this recipe and for the really sweet way you started the post!
I like these cookies and your blog!
I love the looks of these cookies, and the dough… I might be tempted to eat the dough because it’s so pretty!
These are gorgeous! Nice and red and festive, with chocolate chips, you just can’t go wrong.
I like you too! Especially when you hand me a batch of these cookies!
How did you know that I was looking for a Red Velvet Cookie recipe? Thank you.
We love you. And your cookies. And your pancakes!
Oh my…love these! And they look so gorgeous with the unexpected color…lovely :)
These cookies look so good, I love everything Red Velvet and I am sure these won’t disappoint, can’t wait to try them!
I bet these would be pretty with white chocolate chips too!!! Thanks for the recipe!!!
Cut the baking soda and salt in half and these came out great! I also used gel food coloring so I added a 1/4 Tbsp of water.
I am defiently going to try them and I am going to make a batch with white chochlate chips too!
Red velvet as a cookie? Love the idea. My momma and I were just discussing red velvet and how we’d both like to try making it with beets. If I get daring enough to do it, I’ll let you know how it goes!
great idea!
Just made these, with 2/3 cup of Ghirardelli White Chocolate Chips instead of 1/2 cup regular chips. They came out tasting great, but a little crunchier than I like. Any advice on how to make them chewier?
@Jon: I love the white chocolate chip idea! For a chewier cookie, try adding an additional egg yolk.
I made these today and, to my knowledge, used the recipe exactly as written (unless I used a wrong measuring cup somewhere). But my cookies didn’t flatten :( They baked up as ball cookies. I could have stuck a straw into the batter and sucked it down, it was SOOOO good! Seemed just the right consistency, so I don’t know what went wrong :( I will definitely be trying again soon! ;) LOVE red velvet!
Mine did the same thing :(
I made these last night & they taste great! But my dough didn’t seem “wet” enough. It was very very dry before cooking. Mine also did not flatten when cooked, kept a lumpy/mis-shapen look. I’m not entirely sure if I’ll try these again because I felt like they were too dry for my taste. But maybe I’ll keep at it.
Me too, I might add a little less cocoa or try the crisco butter flavor sticks instead of butter next time.
mine came out exactly the same! at least they were still yummy!
I have made these cookies 3 times in the past 2 weeks and switch between choc. chip and white choc. chips… these cookies are bangin! My new favs… along with a tons of my friends and families!
I always add a tad bit more butter to make them not as dry..
These are delicious! I accidently used 2c chocolate chips…best mistake ever! Thanks for this creative recipe :D
These look delish! I WILL be making these for my 7 other kinder partners for Valentine’s Day. Thanks for sharing!
My only question is: Does the butter need to be softened before being used? I can’t imagine the butter creaming well with the sugar when it’s straight from the fridge…
I am so excited to bake these! My only question is how much does this recipe yield? Can’t wait!
This recipes yields about 4 dozen. Enjoy!
The batter is very thick and morsels didn’t stick very well… but all in all, still a yummy recipe!
AMAZING recipe! had no problems with it
These are fantastic! I substituted half earth balance margarine and half palm oil shortening for the butter and egg replacer and soy milk for the eggs and they turned out great. Easy milk and dairy free or vegan option if that fits your diet.
My batter was very dry. Can’t imagine this going together.
Angie I had the same problem, my beaters got stuck! I feel like I must have messed up though since everyone else is having so much luck.
Added an egg and came out perfect. These were great!
I just made these today! They are absolutely perfect. I was nervous at first because the dough looked a little flaky and separated, but if you mushed it up, it was fine. Also, while cooking it doesn’t go flat. It just stays in a ball form, and goes down a little when you take them out. I added a little more chocolate pieces. Great idea. Next time, I want to add in white chocolate. This are the best cookies I’ve ever made! Love them! Thanks for the recipe!
I made these today with m&m’s and the m&m’s were the only good part. The cookies tasted bland and not sweet enough. I was totally disappointed.
Red velvet is buttermilk and chocolate, not just red food coloring. Am I missing something? They look very pretty otherwise!
I made these today and they are awesome
I made these and they were very dry, so dry my mixer broke! However the pics are decieving…the mix isn’t that wet. But remember they are cookies, not cake. Also, don’t “ball” them, cookies remember, note how they are in a package! But, I added a yolk and it helped. They are a tad dry but good. Taking them to a NCSU game, I’ll get feedback.
I made these for fun one night with a friend and we loved them! I made them to take to another friend’s house for dinner a few weeks later, and now everyone keeps asking me to bring them to functions! These cookies are such a hit, so easy to make, and the dough tastes just as good as the cookies do! ;)
My problems with this recipe are its way too dry (I added a little extra water) and my cookies are no where near red. They are a very dark brown with not even a hint of red to be found anywhere. My balls did turn flat instead of staying ball shaped like some of the others have had a problem with. In my opinion as a baker, this is nowhere near a red velvet cookie recipe. It’s more of a very chocolate cookie recipe.
Oh and also after they cooled just a bit, they were hard as rocks!
Delicious! I just made these on a whim, and I substituted the egg for two tablespoons of mayo since I had no eggs! Turned out great and yielded 12 mini cookies and 11 larger ones. Thanks for sharing!
I made these this weekend, my dough was kinda dry also so I added a little water and a little oil. My first batch wasn’t too great so the second ones I only cooked 8 minutes and they are chewy and delish! Even the next day! So I would recommend reducing cooking time.
I just made these cookies and….
1. The batter was brown no red anywhere
2. Batter was very thick
3. Cookie is a little dry
4. Very chocolately – I would consider these cookies very chocolate cookie
5. Not a bad recipe just didn’t turn out the way I had hope
Thank you thank you… my husband loves red velvet now I can send him cookies for christmas.
Mine were like chocolate cookies, no redness at all?
I added an egg and these came out perfect!! They were way too dry/ hard the next day without the added egg. Everyone had been begging me to make them again. They are belittle more brown then red but still delicious.
These are in the oven right now, but I also found the batter to be very dry. I added a couple tsp. of water plus an extra egg yolk. I don’t know how you get 48 cookies out of this recipe?? I barely got 24. Hoping they taste good, but I don’t think mine are going to be very red either despite using the very concentrated gel coloring.
Thank You so much for this AWESOME Recipe!!! I make these cookies all the time.. My family loves them.. My grammy said this is her new favorite cookie! I also used Blue food coloring once when I didn’t have red and they didn’t look as pretty but the taste was still there!!
those cookies look awesome…do you think they would be just as good with white choc chips? I am thinking I might have to make them both ways to see!! thanks!!
I imagine so!
Hey – I love these cookies! In fact, I made them as part of my Pinterest Food Challenge and just wrote about them on my blog (with a link back to this post/your site). Feel free to check it out: http://juliamenn.weebly.com/2/post/2013/01/a-bit-of-nothing-and-some-pfc.html
Thanks for the recipe – it’s a keeper :)
Julia
Thanks! I’m so glad you love them :)
O-M-G- soooo yummily, in the middle of putting my third batch in the oven right now. I dunno how the others did theirs so I can’t begin to explain how it ended up wrong BUT I followed the recipe EXACTLY step by step, I even doubled the measurements. The only changes I made was of course the doubling but having room-temp butter(which in baking is a no brainer), I also did a full cup of white chocolate chips & a half cup of milk chocolate chips. I also in-between batches put the remaining mixture in my deep freezer to harden up a little so it would be a little bit more easier to dollop out on the cookie sheet pan(no I personally didn’t roll them up into balls b/c well it didn’t call for that it says to “drop rounded teaspoons” & my cookies did flatten/spread out like normal cookies do). I also ended up changing the time on mine to 8mins, I did originally try the 10mins & they were good, def had some crunch to the outside but absolutely soft in the middle–but I personally like my cookies to be a little more softer & ooeyer(haha if that’s such a thing) so I did my second batch on 8 mins and to me that was it & adding the white chocolate chips to me added that extra umph for red velvet…..DEF A hit on your hands I know SEVERAL kiddos will be extremely happy tomorrow, making these for my sons entire daycare center for snack for Valentines Day(they’re celebrating all month long). Thank you for this GREAT recipe!! :D
These were a hit during the Christmas holiday this year…the only thing I changed was the chips, I used white chocolate instead and have been asked to make some using dark chocolate next time. Yummy…
Hey so I very much agree these are the most decadent most beautiful cookie on a white pedastal plate on a dining table. Not to mention How Delicious they are. I made them for Valentine’s day and again today for tonight’s OsCars ;) quite fitting red velvet Cookies for the red Carpet. I love them and my family very muCH too. THank you for sharing<3
I just tried this recipe. I didn’t have chocolate chips so I just chopped up some semi-sweet baking chocolate into chunks. The cookie dough seemed a bit dry when I was mixing it, but then it turned out great! Both the dough and the baked cookies are delicious. Definitely a recipe I am putting into my recipe box. Thanks for posting!
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