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These Red Velvet Cake Cookies start with a boxed cake mix, making them super quick and easy to prepare! The soft dough makes for a delicious cookie. Perfect for Valentine’s Day but delicious any time of year.
We love to bake cookies, especially when they start with a cake mix!
Red Velvet Cake Cookies with White Chocolate Chips!
I’m a sucker for a cake mix…in fact, way back in the day, I started the process of writing a cookbook based on cake mix recipes. Never finished, but I still love the cake mix scene!
These red velvet cake mix cookies start with a box of red velvet cake mix, but unlike traditional cake mix cookies we go the gooey butter cake route.
Have you had gooey butter cake before? It’s a St. Louis creation (not too far from me), and I love it! Cake topped with this gooey, buttery cream cheese concoction.
That was our inspo for these cookies!
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♥ What We Love About This Recipe:
- Quick & Easy: These cookies take only 15 minutes to prep and bake and are ready to enjoy after they’ve cooled a bit. This is such an easy recipe thanks to the boxed red velvet cake mix!
- Holidays: These cookies make festive holiday treats! They can double as either Christmas cookies or Valentine’s Day cookies. And you can always add extra decoration if you want to change them up.
Ingredient Notes:
Red Velvet Cake Mix – You can use any brand of boxed cake mix that you prefer to make these cake cookies. They usually come in sizes of either 13.25 ounces or 15.25 ounces. Either one is okay to use!
Cream Cheese – Start with softened cream cheese for easy mixing!
White Chocolate Chips – The contrasting color of the white chocolate chip with the red really make these red velvet cake cookies stand out! Dark chocolate chips will also be delicious and give you a different look and taste.
Butter – Start with room temp butter for the best results.
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
My Favorite Vanilla!
A good quality vanilla really does make a difference and this is my favorite brand.
Step by Step:
Beat together the cream cheese, butter, egg, and vanilla until smooth and creamy.
Beat in the cake mix and white chocolate chips to form a cookie dough.
Use a cookie scoop to drop balls of dough on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
After baking, press additional white chocolate chips into the top of the cookie if you like that look.
My Favorite Cookie Scoop!
We use cookie scoops for everything from baking cookies to scooping meatballs to easily filling muffin tins.
Helpful Tip!
Freezing & Storage Instructions:
You can keep these red velvet cake cookies stored at room temperature in an airtight container for about 5 days.
These cookies can also be frozen! Let them cool completely then flash freeze them on a baking sheet for an hour in the freezer before transferring to a freezer safe bag or container for up to a few months.
MORE EASY CAKE COOKIE RECIPES!
Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 box Red Velvet cake mix 13-15 ounces
- 8 ounces cream cheese room temperature
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Beat together the cream cheese and butter until well combined. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Add the cake mix and beat until well combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Use a medium cookie scoop (about 1 1/2 tablespoons) to scoop balls of dough and place on a parchment lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 – 12 minutes or until the top is set, but the center is still gooey.
- After baking immediately press additional white chocolate chips on top of the cookies, if desired. Cool on a wire rack.
Tips & Notes:
Nutrition Information:
This post was originally published in 2013 and updated with new photos and a video in December 2018.
Debbie P says
This is my 3rd Christmas making these cookies. Instead of chips I add canned frosting when cool and sprinkle with red sugar. Thanks for this recipe. Merry Christmas!
Melissa says
I’ve always loved cake mix cookies but I’ve never added cream cheese before, these are amazing!!!! Just an FYI, this recipe doesn’t call for water but some do. Over the years I have found that if you add too much water to cake mix cookies, that will tend to make them have more of a cake texture. When it says add cake mix, Don’t EVER mix the cake with box instructions first, just add the dry cake mix only. Sorry so long but hope this helps ?
Nolcha Fox says
I made this recipe first with red velvet cake mix and a second time with lemon cake mix. Both were absolutely amazingly delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
Elena Smith says
I saw this awesome recipe in the morning so tried this amazing recipe today only. Couldn’t control myself actually. My family loved it so much. Dear, please do lemme know if we could make it without eggs. Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe with all of us. xoxo
Kathy @ Beyond the Chicken Coop says
What a fun cookie! I love the ease that these come together!
Laura says
Karly, these look awesome and so festive! A nice addition to Christmas Cookie Plate!
Jill S says
I am making these for the second time for a cookie swap and the first time they were awesome however they fall apart easily. Should I cook them a bit longer?
Karly says
Yes, you may need to cook them a bit longer if they weren’t set up enough for you. 🙂
Jill Stachura says
Thank you for responding!
Monika Dabrowski says
These look so goegeous and christmassy! Love the addition of the white chocolate chips.
Kristi says
Can these be made without cream cheese?
Karly says
Nope!
Katie J. Pemberton says
Just made these and OMG…. YUM….
I was looking for easy Christmas cookies to make for Christmas and seen this one and try it and see if I like it. And YEAH LOVE IT!
Lois says
I’ve made these for the last 2 Christmas seasons. And both times they turned out great. I like to fill a fat glass jar with them and put black elastic with a buckle around the middle. So santa cute!
Karly says
Oh, that sounds adorable!
Brittney says
Can I make the batter ahead of time and refrigerate it over night?
Karly says
That should work fine.
Shelley says
Do you make the cake according to the box first or just add the cake mix to the butter and cream cheese?
Karly says
You just add the dry cake mix to the butter and cream cheese.
Ashley says
This might be a stupid question but when you say add cake mix is that just the powder or do I combine everything on the box and then mix it into this recipe?
Karly says
@Ashley,
Just the dry mix! 🙂
kris says
Didn’t turn out for me at all! Second time I have tried to make cookies using cake mix and didn’t like either. Cakey/spongy, dry….mix so thick couldn’t stir…followed directions to a T.
Thought maybe I was cooking too long so tried, cooking less time but then they just tasted doughy. Wanted to share these but can’t…maybe just throw them away. 🙁
Karly says
@kris,
Sorry to hear that! Cake cookies are definitely a different taste than regular, so maybe they’re just not for you.
Kris says
@Karly, That is probably it! The pics make them look like regular cookies. Live and Learn!
Karly says
@Kris,
Love that attitude! 🙂