This cookie has been a long time coming.
You may remember that last year I baked some red velvet cookies, but used a boxed mix. Those cookies are delicious, but it was my mission to find a recipe for red velvet cookies from scratch. And the kicker? I wanted the cookies to be chewy. The only other red velvet cookie recipes from scratch that I’ve tried have been cakey cookies – which are delicious in their own sense, but I wanted a dense, chewy cookie.
After many attempts (read: massive fails) at the cookies over the last 10 months, I gave it another go this weekend and came up with something delectable.
And by delectable, I mean I ate 3 cookies straight off the pan and scorched my tongue. It’s okay… it was all in the name of cookies.
Even though red velvet is technically just rich chocolate, there is something fun and exciting about eating it. Dare I say the cookies taste better then regular cookies? I may be in my twenties, but I’m really just 5 years old.
Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Cookies
makes 12-15 cookies
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon red food coloring
1/2 cup chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375.
Cream butter and sugars together until fluffy in the bowl of an electric mixer. Add egg and vanilla and combine until smooth. Beat in red food coloring. Stir in cocoa, flour, baking soda and salt until just combined, scraping down the sides when needed. Fold in chocolate chips.
Using an ice cream scoop, scoop out 1-2 tablespoons of dough and set on baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
After eating a few cookies, I got a little delirious and did something wild.
Red velvet sandwich cookies stuffed with pumpkin spice cream cheese frosting. Best decision ever.
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I made these last week and they were absolutely delicious – everybody LOVED them! I had absolutely NO problems with the dough being too dry, but I also used teaspoonfuls of dough because I had to bake them in my toaster oven. My regular oven is broken….still.
Thanks for the recipe, Jessica!!
Hi, these look great! I’m thinking of making these later today for a meeting tomorrow…how many decent-sized cookies will this recipe make? Thanks!
I made these last night and took them to work today. I made a double batch, and they were gone by the afternoon!! Delicious! Thank you so much for your trial-and-error process to get us the wonderful recipe!!!!
LOVE THIS RECIPE!!!!!!!!
still turned out great even though i accidentally added more vanilla and i didn’t have enough red food colouring, so i told my friends that they were “dark” velvet cookies
THANKS AGAIN
I’ve made these (in double batches) twice already and I keep getting asked “When are you making more cookies?!” LOVE them. Thanks for the amazing recipe!
Looking forward to trying these. I have a favorite cake-like red velvet cookie recipe and I agree red velvet is better than plain old chocolate
. We made the same cookies once w/o the food coloring and they just weren’t as good!
In all respect which makes no sense knowing that the food coloring does not contribute to tthe flavor!
Sweetened or unsweetened cocoa powder? I already have sweetened…
i have no clue why, but i failed with these instructions. the cookies didnt rise or anything.
Im guessing your banking soda was out of date.
Just made a batch of these to bring to friends on Saturday (sampled them and they came out perfectly!). They are on a plate, wrapped tightly in plastic wrap. Better to keep in the fridge or on the counter?
Omg you are the best!!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing my boyfriend loves red velvet and cookies so I’m making this for him for valentines day. =) thanks again!!
I have chocolate all over my floor, my boys ate one and had to have more..
Said the red Velvet Cookies are the best they have ever had.
Thanks!
I made these with Splenda brown sugar and light sweet butter to save a few calories. I’m sure this changed the consistency somewhat – they are more cake-like on the inside and chew on the outside. I absolutely love them though, and could eat the entire plate. For my Valentine, I’m going to sandwich two together with some new white chocolate cream cheese spread (new tub by Philly out there). Great job on this recipe and many thanks.
I just made my first batch (hoping to give to my husband for Valentines, today) and I did not have a lot of luck on my side… I consider myself pretty talented when it comes to cookies… and maybe it was because I had real butter and it was cold, but my ending mixture was so dry there was no actual “folding” of chocolate chips into the mixture. I ended up making the balls with my hands – they did flatten out, but they also cracked. The second round of the first batch is in the oven – I added a pinch of applesauce to it so it actually looks like cookie dough, and I am softening my butter to see if that helps the next round. Butter is a funny thing when it comes to cookies – it can’t be cold, but you can’t have melted butter, either.
Okay, so adding applesauce made them cake-y cookies – not my kind of yum, but edible. Used softened butter this time – sugar and butter creamed perfectly. Cut out 1/4 cup of flour (used 3/4 cup whole wheat flour, 1/2 cup all-purpose), and put all of my dry ingredients (pre-mixed) in at the same time – this girl’s got cookie dough! So excited. I hope solving my own problems, here, helps other people out
These cookies are so flippin pretty
Hi! I love these cookies so much… I have made them a few times now but I was curious as to why mine aren’t spreading like yours seem to do… Any thoughts? Thanks!
My husband loves red velvet cake, so when I came across this recipe for cookies I had to try them. They are excellent!! Great job figuring this out!! They were so good we ate half of them before they cooled off, so I recommend making a double batch if you want leftovers! Thanks!!
I randomly decided to make red velvet cookies from scratch and yours was the first recipe that popped up. OM-Freaking-G! These cookies were amazing and stuffed with cream cheese my friend said she was drifting off into the heavens. Thanks so much for all your trials, they are much appreciated
oh my gosh, i have been searching high and low for a chewy red velvet cookie recipe. i too have found only cakey like cookie recipes. for this and for pumpkin cookies as well. which sucks! because i die for chewy cookies. i’m super excited for these cookies!! i’m going to make them tonight. think we can adapt this recipe for chewy pumpkin cookies?
Does anyone have the recipe for “pumpkin spice cream cheese frosting”? That sounds so good to me!
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