Santa’s Red Velvet Cookies
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How festive and enchanting are these holiday Santa’s Red Velvet Cookies? Santa LIKES!! These STUNNING red velvet cake mix cookies are rich in chocolate flavor and perfect for Christmas cookie exchanges, cookie baking and party fun!
More red velvet desserts you may want to devour are these Red Velvet Levain Cookies and these Red Velvet Cookie Bars!
Why WE Love These Santa’s Red Velvet Cookies
So easy to make! Literally you can make and bake these tasty cookies up in 20 minutes or less, using this cake mix shortcut!
These cookies are simply made from a red velvet cake mix and honestly, they are so soft, chewy and they melt in your mouth. The chocolate from the cake mix really comes through and the red obviously screams ‘SANTA’ & ‘CHRISTMAS!’ 🙂 Exactly what we were going for!
One more very, very important thing Santa really likes…It’s those white chocolate chips and the holiday M&M’s in the cookies that really rock it out! Can’t say I blame him for that! Don’t forget the Easy Hot Chocolate Bombs!
4 Main Ingredients Used
These cake mix cookies use just 4 main ingredients (plus add-ins) to make chewy cookies with a crisp tender texture, tasting like red velvet cake with white chocolate and red and green m&m’s!
Red velvet cake mix, eggs, melted butter and vanilla bring this red velvet cookie recipe home for the holidays! Homemade with love with a little help from our red velvet cake mix!
Do You Know How Red Velvet Cake Came About?
Well, here’s the scoop! During the food rationing of World War II, bakers would use beets to enhance the color of their cakes. Weird, but true and it worked! And did you know ‘Chocolate’ is one of the main ingredients in red velvet desserts? Yum!!!
Red velvet cake or cookies are usually made with a combination of ingredients like all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, buttermilk, milk, vinegar, granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs, salt, red food coloring and sometimes beets!
However, we’re making these cookies simple to make, using a red velvet cake mix. It’s a great red velvet cookie recipe when you want something fast, tastes delish and holiday-ish! Let’s not just make cookies, but some fun Santa cookies!
Gather Your Ingredients
- 15.25 ounce box Red Velvet cake mix
- eggs, room temperature
- unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled, or canola/vegetable oil
- pure vanilla extract
- white chocolate chips
- holiday m&m’s
Instructions How to Make Santa’s Red Velvet Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350°F and prepare two baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine cake mix, eggs, vanilla and melted butter together using a wooden spoon to stir until just combined. Add the white chocolate chips and m&ms and stir to combine.
- Using a medium cookie scoop (about 2 tablespoons), portion cookie dough onto prepared baking sheets a few inches apart to allow them to spread – no more than 6 cookies per sheet.
- Top with a few additional chocolate chips and m&m’s for more fun and color!
- Bake for 9-11 minutes or until the cookies have set (but have not yet started to brown).
- Allow to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.
How To Store Cookies
- These cookies will stay fresh in an airtight container at room temperature for about 3 or 4 days.
How to Freeze Cookies
- Store your cooled cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months. Just thaw and enjoy!
More Variations
- Top with cream cheese frosting and add more m&m’s or colorful sprinkles on top!
- Make these with just white chocolate chips for a Valentine’s Day sweet treat!
Perfectly adorable, these Santa cookies look amazing all studded out with white chocolate chips and m&ms and are great for Christmas cookie munching! Besides rockin’ it out, you’ve got yourself some really easy and fun cookies to share! 🙂 Here’s the recipe and don’t forget jolly ole’ Santa, because after all these are his favorite cookies! 🙂
More Cookies for Santa!
- Soft Sugar Cookies
- Santa’s Christmas Trash Cookies
- Soft Batch Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Christmas Peppermint Chunk M&M’S Fudge Cookies
- Milk Chocolate Kiss Cookies
Check out 10 Super Sweet Christmas Tree Desserts To Pine Over!
Santa's Red Velvet Cookies
Ingredients
- 15.25 ounce box Red Velvet cake mix
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- ½ cup unsalted butter melted and slightly cooled, or canola/vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 cup holiday m&m’s
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and prepare two baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine cake mix, eggs, vanilla and melted butter together using a wooden spoon to stir until just combined. Add the white chocolate chips and m&ms and stir to combine.
- Using a medium cookie scoop (about 2 tablespoons), portion dough onto prepared baking sheets a few inches apart to allow them to spread – no more than 6 cookies per sheet.
- Top with a few additional chocolate chips and m&m’s for more fun and color!
- Bake for 9-11 minutes or until the cookies have set (but have not yet started to brown).
- Allow to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
Alyssa,
Depending on how big you make them will determine how many but I think one tablespoon per cookie will yield 24 cookies.
how many cookies does one batch make?
Perfect for these cookies for sure! Sprinkles are always a win! Thanks so much for commenting Susan 🙂 and Happy Holidays! xo
A really great idea for “cookie party” give-away. Add sprinkles or other novelty decorations.