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    Home » Favorite Flavors & Ingredients » Red Velvet

    Santa's Red Velvet Cookies

    Published: Dec 10, 2014 · by Kim Lange · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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    How festive and enchanting are these holiday Santa's Red Velvet Cookies? Santa LIKES!!  These STUNNING red velvet cookies are rich in chocolate flavor and perfect for Christmas cookie exchanges, cookie baking and party fun!  So easy to make!  Literally you can make and bake these tasty cookies up in 20 minutes or less, using this cake mix shortcut! 

    More red velvet desserts you may want to devour are these Red Velvet Levain Cookies and these Red Velvet Cookie Bars!

    santa cookies

    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!

    Santa's Red Velvet Cookies

     

    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!

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    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!!!  

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    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 

    How to Make Santa's Red Velvet Cookies

    1. Preheat oven to 350°F and prepare two baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. Top with a few additional chocolate chips and m&m’s for more fun and color!
    5. Bake for 9-11 minutes or until the cookies have set (but have not yet started to brown).
    6. 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!

    santa cookies

    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

    Santa's Red Velvet Cookies

    Kim Lange
    How festive and enchanting are these holiday Santa Red Velvet Cookies? Santa LIKES!!  These red velvet cookies are rich in chocolate flavor and perfect for Christmas cookie exchanges and party fun!  So easy to make!  Literally you can make and bake these tasty cookies up in 20 minutes or less, using this cake mix shortcut! 
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Cook Time 10 mins
    Course Dessert
    Servings 18 Servings
    Calories

    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

    Can make smaller or larger, just adjust time.
    Keyword christmas, cookies, M&Ms, red velvet, white chocolate
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    Hi! I'm Kim! As you may know, I'm cookie, brownie and chocolate obsessed! You'll find hundreds of decadent and healthy dessert recipes to choose from here! So, let's bake something easy and never forget the chocolate!

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    1. Kim Lange says

      December 18, 2019 at 5:15 pm

      Alyssa,
      Depending on how big you make them will determine how many but I think one tablespoon per cookie will yield 24 cookies.

    2. Alyssa Aschaker says

      December 18, 2019 at 4:34 pm

      how many cookies does one batch make?

    3. Kim Lange says

      December 13, 2019 at 12:09 pm

      Perfect for these cookies for sure! Sprinkles are always a win! Thanks so much for commenting Susan 🙂 and Happy Holidays! xo

    4. Susan Montague says

      December 13, 2019 at 11:54 am

      A really great idea for "cookie party" give-away. Add sprinkles or other novelty decorations.

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