Red Velvet Thumbprints With Marshmallow Frosting.
I did I did!
First, I baked all day Friday. Then I didn’t clean up the kitchen at all, until 9PM rolled around and I whined that if I didn’t clean up the kitchen, I’d hate myself in the morning. So I did what any normal person does… lay on the couch and watch Fashion Police.
Saturday morning I woke up, hated myself for not cleaning the kitchen, and then… sat down on the couch.
Then I worked out with my husband. Ummm… a huge first. Granted we met in a gym (oh hi, cliche) and have worked out in close proximity to each other for years, but I am the type of person who wants to speak to no one while exercising – the type who puts my headphones on full blast and purposely ignores people even as they are flailing their arms in front of me.
Um what? I can’t hear you.
So yeah. We did that.
Then we did something else totally crazy… that included making breakfast, together. Like… cooking in the kitchen. AT THE SAME TIME. And not threatening divorce. This was huge.
He made eggs (they were okay) and I made pancakes (ehh… still okay) and then we ate. And then we decided after three plus years of being married that hey… we sort of actually like each other.
True story.
Then we started to fiiiiinally take down the Christmas decorations. And I tortured him to death because let me tell you this: my husband has a wild and crazy phobia of styrofoam. Yes, STYROFOAM! It makes him cringe, like nails on a chalkboard. I find it hilarious and love to squish it together anytime I can get my hands on it. I’ve often thought of wrapping one of his birthday presents in like 42 styrofoam boxes that progressively get smaller, and smaller, and…
I think he retracted his precious post-breakfast feelings after that.
So I got sucked into Rob Lowe’s memoir and read the entire thing in less than 24 hours. Then I google-imaged pictures of Rob Lowe for three more hours.* Then I wondered when it became unacceptable to hang posters of Rob Lowe on your (marital) bedroom ceiling.
Then I wondered why I don’t have a life.
In between all that, I ate pizza. Pizza is a super Saturday-y thing to do.
I didn’t do any laundry. Oh! But he did. My husband… not Rob Lowe. Until the washing machine broke mid-load. That was fun!
Not.
And while that was happening I was watching the Golden Globe red carpet hoopla, figuring that since most of the people on TV hadn’t eaten a brownie in like four months, that I’d eat an extra one for them. So I did. And I’ll tell you about those later. I also took a good fifteen minutes contemplating my thoughts on Gerard Butler’s hair. Then before I knew it Scott Disick was on the screen wearing some sort of violet blazer-type suit thing, which made me reconsider my favorite color and start re-reading Rob Lowe’s memoir.
Then Mr. How Sweet came downstairs and realized I still had not started researching washing machines, and umm… didn’t I know he is sincerely Type A and has to do a load of laundry (which consists of every color, fabric and item mashed together, not separated) every single day? And why couldn’t I just start acting like a grown up?
Then I reminded him of these red velvet cookies I had baked on Friday… totally thought up by someone brilliant on the Facebook page. I mean, I really didn’t think I could bust out a cookie this early in the year, with all the flour and sugar and pounds of butter looming heavily on my memory. I haven’t even craved a cookie since like, December 19th. But these made it past my mixer and just in time for you for Valentine’s Day… or you know, Tuesday. So he was happy.
And just then Rob Lowe came out to present a Golden Globe and was out there for an extra long time and I almost died. It’s totally fate.
Red Velvet Thumprints
[adapted from s’mores thumbprints]
makes about 20 cookies
1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg yolk
1 cup all purpose flour
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/4 teaspoons red food coloring
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Sift flour, cocoa powder and salt into a bowl and set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter and sugars until fluffy (scraping the bowl when needed), for about 3-4 minutes. Add in egg yolk and vanilla, and beat for another 1-2 minutes until combined. Add in red food coloring (note: I used liquid coloring, if you use gel you may need more/less) and mix until color spreads. With the mixer on low speed, stir in the flour mixture and gradually increase the speed for the dough to come together, again scraping down the sides to combine. One batter has come together, fold in mini chocolate chips.
Roll into balls that are about 1 inch in diameter and set on a baking sheet 2 inches apart. Bake for 5 minutes, then remove from oven and gently press your thumb into the center of each cookie, creating a dent. Place the cookies back in the oven and bake for 5-6 more minutes. Remove and let cool completely.
Cream Cheese Marshmallow Frosting
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3/4 cups marshmallow fluff
1 3/4 cups of powdered sugar
1-2 teaspoons milk, if needed
Beat cream cheese in the bowl of electric mixer until creamy. Add in fluff and beat for 2-3 minutes, then add in vanilla extract. With the mixer on low speed, add in powdered sugar 1 cup at a time until fully incorporated. Once all the sugar has been added, beat on medium-high speed for 2-3 minutes. If mixture if too runny, add a bit more sugar. If it’s too thick, add a bit of milk one teaspoon at a time. Frost cookies, then top with shaved chocolate if desired.
*Wait, that’s a lie. I’m not done.
162 Comments on “Red Velvet Thumbprints With Marshmallow Frosting.”
That sounds like a ridiculously weekendy weekend. I need a cookie just reading about it.
These look lovely and very fitting for Valentine’s Day. And I’m glad to know that we’re not the only ones who are just now getting down to putting away holiday decorations!
I read through this post soo fast because I wanted to get to the point where you talked about this cookies! These look soo great. I can’t wait to try your marshmallow frosting.
I’m putting these on my Valentine’s Day list!! They are beautiful and the perfect size!
my husband is the same about laundry….but he tends to be really great about getting clothes in the washer…and not into the dryer. really awesome when clothes just smell like mildew…but their clean right?
I wish I could laugh but uh… I sort of do that too.
These look delish with the fluffy marshmallow topping on the cute little buttery red velvet cookies. Love these. Isn’t Scott Disick kind of a weirdo? I love Rob Lowe on Parks and Recreation – my new favorite show.
That was the funniest post I’ve read in a long time. I don’t know you, but I like you simply based on the content and expression of your thoughts. You are so funny and down-to-earth—my kinda gal! (and the cookies look really good too, but I mostly come for the writing:)
Thank you Jenn!
I love ALL things red velvet… as soon as i need my sugar high.. i am ALL over these :)
I had to pin this instantly! SO happy about this recipe!
I need to make these! I have never had red velvet cake and everyone at my work thinks I’m crazy! I didn’t avoid it, I just never got it. Weird, I know! If I bring a batch in they’ll love me forever, ok more like only when there eating these cookies, but hey I’ll take that 5 seconds, These look super yum! Making them!!!
Those cookies sound awesome! Thanks for the recipe!
hahaha- I love your weekend! Funny, I teach group fitness and obviously love talking to the class while I teach, but I hate talking to people when I work out on my own. These look amazeballs. Rob Lowe, huh?
These look amaze! Can’t wait to try them!
We DID do something weekendy! We put our L-shaped couch together like a huge bed in our living room and watched 4 hundred billion forensics shows while I played on Instagram. Weee!
I wanna stick my thumb into a cookie now.
And then lick Rob Lowe.
OH, WHAT?
I cringed reading about the styrofoam.
You are hysterical Jessica! I love reading your posts…XoXo
wow, that’s quite the weekend! i just ate brunch with a friend and slept on the couch the rest of the time…that’s weekendy, right?
LOL! Sounds like you had a lovely weekend (well, minus the whole washing machine thing – but in my opinion, researching appliances and procuring them is a blue job. Tell Mr. How Sweet he should get on it if he wants clean clothes!)
Ha! My husband doesn’t even know how to turn the washing machine on. But I think he’s pretending. It’s still enough to aggravate me into doing his laundry. Anyway, those cookies and that frosting – THAT FROSTING. I would have a lot of fun getting that frosting all over my face.
Mmmm, I love thumprint cookies. It means you get more frosting per square inch :)
These are super cute, can’t wait to make them!
Great post! You put a great big smile on my face on this Monday morning! I am so making these red velvet thumbprint cookies! I have said this several times, but I love that plate with the red stitching, Jessica!
Omg LOVE red velvet – can’t wait to try these…..but even better is the stryofoam issue – my husband too has a HUGE phobia of styrofoam which I always felt was weird – good to know someone else is afraid of it too, and that someone else loves to torture their husband with it!! It’s great fun! :)
Crazy!!
Your weekend was jammed packed :)
I went from the kitchen to the couch, back to the kitchen annnnd then back to the couch. Important Kardashian work was being done.
I could have used a few of these cookies.
You are THE best! I love reading your blog and being inspired! I just wish I had found you when I was unemployed and bored at home all day! I could have been baking and cooking and making my new hubby chubbaliciously happy!! =) Guess I’ll just have to do it all on my down time now ;)
P.S. I totally didn’t clean up my kitchen from my weekend bake-stravaganza for my Grandmother-in-laws 96th Birthday. It was my husbands suggestion we just leave it there.
Okay, chubbalicious may be my new favorite word!
Well by all means, feel free to use it at your discretion ;) If you submit the word with this recipe to Websters I bet we could get it in the dictionary…
Sounds like the perfect way to spend the weekend! I don’t think my boyfriend and I have ever eaten the same breakfast (he’s obsessed with eggs) but we always sit down and have it together :-)
These look lovely – gorgeous in their simplicity.
totally agree about the “leave me alone at the gym” thing. People who speak at the gym highly annoy me.
I did something weekendy too! I made your BBQ beer chicken to serve as part of a SOuthern feast. It actually ended up being a combo of recipes, due to some ingredient related trauma – your beer and spices with EatLiveRun pulled chicken sauce (you cant get good BBQ sauce here…). It was SO yummy – thank you!! I think we are going to try adding some bourbon next time too. You know how moderate us Brits are with alcohol.
yumm yumm. These look wonderful, and sounds like a perfect weekend. Books, pizza and cooking… I love it..
I need these. Really, really need these!
We did a few weekend-y things around here. We have friends over, we played outside while the wind wasn’t blowing a bajillion miles and hour, and those sorts of things.
Absolutely delightful! Weekend cleanups are the best…and worst. Because then the week comes and it gets all messy again! Blah!
Tell me more about the Rob Lowe book… I have to read!
I loved it, but it was all about Hollywood stuff so that is probably why!
I am convinced that Rob Lowe has lived in an anti-aging-bubble for the past 30 years. I mean seriously people. He hasn’t lost one smidgen of his gorgeousness. Not. One.
These cookies look decadent. Yum.
Agree!!
These cookies look so delicious! Yummy!
I share your husband’s fear of styrofoam. If I had to break through a wall of styrofoam to get to a piece of bacon… I wouldn’t. That’s how afraid I am.
I HATE STYROFOAM TOO! It makes me want to cry. And velcro. Ughhhh styrofoam and velcro.
XO,
Doux Rousse
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Your weekend just cheered my RIGHT UP! :)
As always, you made me smile and even laugh outloud (about the Rob Lowe poster on your marital ceiling!) These thumbprint cookies look ahhh-mazing! But what would Mother Lovett say about them? :-) I kept waiting for a Mother Lovett thumbprint story.
Mmmm looks delicious. I love red velvet anything – cannot wait to make the marshmallow frosting.
Love the cookie and the frosting! YUM!
1) Recipe looks sinfully awesome!
2) I’m glad I’m not the only one who wants to be left alone while I workout. Sometimes the Mr wants to get goofy and I get irritated because once my focus is interrupted and my intensity drops big time.
Ok so this post made me feel weird but also a little warm and fuzzy at the same time and you want to know why? I have the weird styrofoam phobia too!! Just hearing you describing yourself doing that made me cringe….ugh! It’s the worst sound and the world! And warm and fuzzy because….my boyfriend is like that too. I thought it was normal to not like styrofoam but I guess I have found my match!
I love this post. And those cookies!
How is it that Rob Lowe gets better looking each year he gets older??
Your cookies look amazing!!
Washing machine break downs suck. I have had two washers break mid-rinse, and there is nothing worse than wringing out sopping wet clothes….
Next Saturday Lifetime is doing a movie on Scott Peterson with Rob Lowe playing Scott… DVR is set at my apartment… ;)
Does taking a nap count as something weekend-y? I woke up at 8am Sunday morning with the promise of food & after eating my brain just didn’t want to run anymore without a few more hours of sleep that I usually get. 8am is early for me. I also did Zumba this weekend! I got the Zumba for the Wii & absolutely LOVE it.
Fun post! Those look pretty amazing too :)
Love that last picture with your red plate!
Ahhhh, COCOA sprinkles!! When I first saw the picture, I thought it was oregano, ha! I thought, “What is she DOING?!?” :-)