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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!
More Cookie Favorites:
♥ 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:
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This post was originally published in 2013 and updated with new photos and a video in December 2018.
Amy says
Delicious and easy!!