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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.
Lisa says
My daughter was allergic to chocolate as a child and even though she grew out of the allergy she doesn’t like the taste of chocolate????. Though she LOVES white chocolate and red velvet ????. So needless to say that this recipe is perfect ????. I can’ t wait to make it for her. Thanks for posting it.????
Kristen Garcia says
Found these on Pinterest and decided to make them on Valentine’s Day for my husband and I. They turned out great! We can’t stop eating them. Thank you for the recipe!
Megan says
These were lovely – thank you! Such a fun Valentine’s Day treat!
Chelsea says
Cream cheese, room temp or out of the fridge????
Getting ready to make them don’t wanna mess it up
Claire says
I don’t have cake mix, so can I make home made red velvet and then add what you have??
Karly says
Probably not. This recipe uses the dry mix, not an actual cake.
Tiffany says
Talk about a great cookie! I made these today for my co-workers and they were a big hit. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Marie says
Do you use 1/2 cup of solid or melted butter?
Karly says
Room temperature butter! 🙂
Karen says
My daughter made these red velvet cookies yesterday. We were going to bring them to a super bowl party. However, they are so ridiculously delicious that we kept them home! OMG! Seriously the best cookies I’ve had in a while. I’ve added this recipe to the family binder of “keepers”. Thank you!
Amanda says
These were awesome. I gave one to a friend who isn’t a fan of homemade cookies or red velvet in general, and she LOVED them. They’re almost all gone. Thanks for the recipe I will definitely be making these again!
Donna Howard says
Making them now Karly, And put some ‘hugs’ (the white ones) kisses on it. Did as you suggested and put in the fridge for a bit. They turned out AWESOME!!! Look so good. I took a picture and would send it to you but don’t know where to do that! But it’s a good look for v-tines!!! And the cookie is totally yummie and oh so easy to make. Thank you!
Karly says
Oh, good! Glad they turned out! You can share a photo on my facebook if you want to! http://www.facebook.com/bunsinmyoven
Donna Howard says
So yummy looking – going to make these this weekend. I have a ton of kisses I want to use up — just wondering if I could plant a kiss on the top of this and call it cute!!! What do you think??
Karly says
Absolutely! You might even chill the dough for a couple of hours before baking. That will help them not spread as much so you’ll have a nice little poof of a cookie to stick your kiss in. 🙂
Danielle says
Can I substitute something besides the cream cheese? Can you taste the cream cheese?
Karly says
Hi Danielle!
These a riff on the standard gooey butter cake which is full of cream cheese. You can definitely taste it in these.
There are lots of other cake mix cookie recipes out there if you don’t like cream cheese, but I don’t think substituting it in this would work out well. 🙂
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking says
i just made today some red velvet treats, guess it’s that time of the year, but your cookies clearly put mine to shame. They look and sound gorgeous Karly!
kirsten@FarmFreshFeasts says
Ok, let me preface this by saying I’ve got a Zucchini Triple Chip Spice cake on my side board made with a box of spice cake mix (I love the Cake Mix Doctor®!) so I’m not trash talking the red velvet cake mix in any way shape form . . . but . . .
I wonder if I could make my own red velvet using shredded beets in the mixture? I’ve got a beet crust pizza coming out on Friday, and the crust color is so phenomenal it makes me wonder if I could do it in a cookie form as well.
Either way, the cookies look absolutely delicious and would make an excellent Valentine’s dessert (after some fresh mozzarella on beet crust pizza, perhaps?). Thanks!
Cassie | Bake Your Day says
I LOVE this variation on a gooey butter cookie. I really wish my baking supplies weren’t packed in boxes so I could make some!