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These red velvet cookies start with a cake mix, making them super quick and easy to prepare! The soft dough makes for a delicious cookie!
My husband, the cookie connoisseur, has been requesting things like plain old chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Now, it’s not that I have a problem with those cookies – they’re classics for a reason! It’s just…I like to experiment and have fun in the cookie department!
You know gooey butter cake? It’s a midwestern thing, so if you’ve never heard of it, that’s likely why.
It’s a cake that’s so full of sugary sweet gooey goodness and I knew it would work well in cookie form.
I was so right! These red velvet cake mix cookies are exactly the ooey gooey butter cookies I was dreaming of!
I’ve also made gooey butter chocolate chip cookies and those are just as insanely good! You can’t go wrong when you start with a cake mix.
How to make red velvet cookies with cake mix:
Grab your favorite brand of red velvet cake mix, some butter, cream cheese, an egg, and vanilla. We add white chocolate chips to make these extra yummy and pretty.
That’s all you’ll need for these cake mix cookies!
Mix everything but the chocolate chips together using a stand or hand mixer until the batter is smooth and creamy.
Stir in the chocolate chips by hand.
Grab a cookie scoop and drop these onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
We like to sprinkle a few extra chocolate chips on top of the balls of dough. It makes for extra pretty cookies!
Pop them in the oven and that’s it! So quick and easy!
More red velvet recipes to try:
Red Velvet Donuts: Who wouldn’t want to start their day with red velvet?
Red Velvet Muffins: With a crumb topping, naturally!
Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 box Red Velvet cake mix
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup 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.
- Roll tablespoonfuls of dough into balls 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.
- Cool on a wire rack.
Nutrition Information:
This post was originally published in 2013 and updated with new photos and a video in December 2018.
Ashley @ Kitchen Meets Girl says
These are so pretty, Karly! I have to say, cake mix cookies are some of my favorite.
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
Why oh why have I never had a gooey butter anything? I’m ashamed to call myself a dessert blogger!
Dalila G. says
OMGOODNESS!!
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with back-to-back Red Velvet recipes at all!
The more Red Velvet recipes I find…… the sweeter life is. *^_^*
These cookies look so uber yummy, I will be making some soon.
The problem is will I be sharing them………mwhahahah!!
Joanne says
I’m a red velvet fiend! It is surely going to be one of the tiers on my wedding cake. Along with carrot. And anything I can put cream cheese frosting on.
These cookies look awesome!
Jocelyn @BruCrew Life says
I never thought I liked red velvet either. I mean if I’m going to eat a sort of kind of chocolate…why bother? Then I tried cake mix cookies and I’m hooked. I love how puffy yours are too!!!
Pat says
Hmmm, they look delish! I’ve been a long time lover of anything Red Velvet and the cake is my son’s favorite.
Thanks for sharing!
Pat
Noble Pig - Cathy says
Thse are so festive. I admit I love cake mix cookies.
Amber Dooley says
Red velvet is AMAZING!! I am always trying to find new ways to make something red velvet( I live in a place that doesn’t know what red velvet is 🙁 Very sad for me)
I will definitely be trying these and the donuts!!
raz says
I am going to make these for valentines day for the girls at work.. Cant wait
Averie @ Averie Cooks says
I wish I could snag a big bite right now. They look so moist and good!
Kim @ Soliloquy Of Food & Such says
I love Red Velvet ANYHING! Steel Magnolias is one of my hubs favorite movies (I know, right?)…he’s always asking for a “Steel-Magnolias-Red-Velvet-Armadillo-Cake”. I have yet to make one.
JulieD says
This looks sinful in a good way!
Nancy P.@thebittersideofsweet says
Loving me some red velvet!
Aimee @ ShugarySweets says
I am not usually a red velvet fan, but girlfriend, you make everything look so delicious! Between the donuts yesterday and the cookies today I’m rethinking my status on red velvet. Just to be sure though, can you mail me some of these cookies? mmmkay???
megan @ whatmegansmaking says
I’m with you on red velvet – I thought I didn’t like it, but that was purely a result of the armadillo cake on steel magnolias. Now I love it! These cookies look amazing.