Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies are the recipe that Maria makes every Valentine’s Day and every most festively anticipated holiday gathering when she wants to create the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely show-stopping individual cookie that captures every single most beloved element of the most iconic red velvet cake — the most deeply cocoa-forward and the most properly vibrant crimson individual color, the most essential individual tangy richness, and the most beloved individual cream cheese individual character — in the most brilliantly conceived individual crinkle cookie format that features the most dramatic and the most properly snowy individual powdered sugar coating crinkled by the most beautifully distinctive individual fissure pattern that reveals the most gorgeous and the most deeply vibrant red individual cookie beneath.
The most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely unexpected individual surprise comes when each individual bite reveals the most luxuriously smooth and the most beautifully tangy individual cream cheese center filling that transforms these from the most simply beautiful individual red velvet cookies into the most genuinely extraordinary individual red velvet cheesecake crinkle cookie experience.
Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies are the most easy and deeply extraordinary 30-minute festive fudgy red velvet crinkle cookies with cream cheese centers made by creaming butter and sugar adding egg vanilla cocoa red food coloring flour baking soda and salt rolling in powdered sugar baking at 350°F for 10 to 12 minutes until dramatically crinkled. Come follow us on Pinterest where we share beautiful cookie recipes and easy holiday favorites from our kitchen every single week.
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Why You Will Love This Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies Recipe
This Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies recipe is the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely dramatic individual holiday cookie that delivers the most beautifully fudgy and the most properly chewy individual red velvet crinkle with the most luxuriously tangy individual cream cheese center — creating the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely red velvet cheesecake individual cookie experience in the most brilliantly compact and the most properly individually portioned individual format.
The most critical individual technique for the most dramatically crinkled and the most beautifully powdered-sugar-coated individual crinkle cookie exterior is rolling each individual dough ball the most generously in powdered sugar immediately before baking — the most thick individual powdered sugar coating cracks into the most beautifully dramatic and the most deeply contrasting individual white-over-red crinkle pattern as the most individual cookie spreads and the most rises during the most initial baking heat. Our Easy Sugar Cookies make a beautifully equally festive and equally individually beautiful companion for a complete and wonderful holiday cookie collection.
Ingredients Needed for This Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies Recipe
For the Red Velvet Crinkle Cookie Dough:
- 1¾ cups All-Purpose Flour
- 2 tbsp Natural Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- ¼ tsp Salt
- ½ cup Unsalted Butter, softened
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 large Egg, room temperature
- 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 tbsp Red Gel Food Coloring (or 2 tbsp liquid)
- 1 tsp White Vinegar
- ½ cup Sour Cream, room temperature
- ¾ cup Powdered Sugar for rolling
For the Cream Cheese Center Filling:
- 4 oz Full-Fat Brick-Style Cream Cheese, softened
- 3 tbsp Powdered Sugar
- ½ tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
How to Make This Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Prepare the cream cheese filling first: beat the softened cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla until the most smooth. Drop individual teaspoon-sized portions onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and freeze for 30 minutes until the most firm, cara mia.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
Beat the softened butter and granulated sugar for 2 minutes until the most light and fluffy. Add the egg, vanilla, red food coloring, and white vinegar — the most vinegar activates the most beautiful individual red color and provides the most essential individual red velvet tang. Mix until combined. Add the sour cream and mix. Gradually add the flour mixture, mixing just until the most cohesive individual dough forms.
Cover and refrigerate the individual dough for 30 minutes until the most firm enough to handle.
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
Remove one individual frozen cream cheese portion. Flatten a tablespoon of individual red velvet dough in your palm, place the most frozen cream cheese center in the most middle, and wrap the individual dough around it completely, rolling into the most smooth ball.
Roll each individual stuffed dough ball the most generously in powdered sugar until the most completely coated. Place on prepared baking sheets 2 inches apart.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until the most dramatic crinkle pattern forms and the edges are the most just set. Cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring.
How to Serve This Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Serve at room temperature for the most beautifully set individual cream cheese center and the most properly chewy individual red velvet cookie crinkle. The most dramatic individual white-over-crimson individual crinkle pattern is the most beautifully vibrant and the most properly defined immediately after baking and maintains the most gorgeous individual appearance throughout the most entire storage period.
For the most completely extraordinary individual Valentine’s Day or Christmas cookie presentation, arrange on a white individual serving platter in the most neat individual rows for the most strikingly beautiful and the most genuinely show-stopping individual display of the most vibrant crimson crinkle individual cookies. Our Strawberry Crunch Cookies make a beautifully equally festively pink and equally individually beautiful companion for a complete and wonderful holiday cookie collection.
How to Store This Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 5 days due to the cream cheese filling. Allow 10 minutes at room temperature before serving for the most properly softened individual cream cheese center. The most individual crinkle pattern maintains the most beautifully crisp individual white-over-crimson visual throughout the most entire storage period. Freeze individually wrapped for up to 2 months.
Tips to Make This Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Freeze the individual cream cheese filling portions the most completely — at least 30 minutes — before wrapping with individual red velvet dough. The most completely frozen individual cream cheese portions stay the most firmly intact during the most individual dough-wrapping process and prevent the most undesirable individual cream cheese leakage during the most baking process.
Roll each individual stuffed dough ball the most generously in powdered sugar — use at least two to three tablespoons of individual powdered sugar per individual cookie for the most dramatically defined and the most beautifully contrasting individual crinkle pattern. Insufficient individual powdered sugar coating produces the most faint and the most improperly defined individual crinkle rather than the most dramatically beautiful and the most properly snowy individual crinkle pattern.
Helpful Notes for This Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies Recipe
The most white vinegar is the most specifically essential ingredient for the most authentic individual red velvet individual character — the most individual acidity of the vinegar reacts with the most individual cocoa and the most individual red food coloring to produce the most beautifully vibrant and the most properly bright individual crimson color while simultaneously providing the most essential individual tang that is the most universally recognized individual red velvet individual flavor character.
For the most dramatically vibrant individual crimson color, use red gel food coloring rather than liquid — gel individual food coloring provides the most intensely saturated individual color with the most minimal individual quantity added. One tablespoon of individual red gel food coloring produces the most beautifully deep and the most properly crimson individual red velvet cookie color.
Variation of This Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Maria made a version without the most individual cream cheese filling for the most completely extraordinary and the most simply fudgy individual red velvet crinkle cookie without any individual center component. Teresa tried a white chocolate chip version — folding half a cup of white chocolate chips through the individual red velvet dough before rolling into balls for the most completely extraordinary and the most beautifully sweet individual white chocolate red velvet crinkle cookie.
For a mint red velvet version, add half a teaspoon of pure peppermint extract to the individual cream cheese filling for the most completely extraordinary and the most refreshingly cool individual mint cream cheese red velvet crinkle cookie. Our Strawberry Crunch Cookies make a beautifully equally vibrantly colored and equally individually extraordinary companion for a complete and wonderful festive cookie collection.
FAQs About This Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Why does the recipe include white vinegar?
The most white vinegar serves two most essential individual functions in the most authentic individual red velvet recipe — the most individual acidity reacts with the most individual cocoa and the most individual food coloring to enhance and the most beautifully brighten the most individual crimson color while simultaneously providing the most essential and the most distinctively individual tangy character that every most knowledgeable individual red velvet enthusiast immediately recognizes as the most authentic individual red velvet flavor signature.
How do I prevent the cream cheese filling from leaking out?
Three most effective individual techniques for the most leak-free individual cream cheese center are freezing the most individual cream cheese portions the most completely before wrapping, enclosing the most individual cream cheese center the most completely within the individual dough with no visible gaps or thin spots, and not overfilling each individual cookie dough portion with an excessively large individual cream cheese center that cannot be the most fully contained.
Can I make these without the cream cheese filling?
Yes — simply roll the individual red velvet dough into the most smooth individual balls, coat the most generously in powdered sugar, and bake for the same individual time for the most completely extraordinary and the most fudgy individual red velvet crinkle cookie without any individual cream cheese center.
Conclusion
These Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies are the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely show-stopping festive individual cookies that make every Valentine’s Day and every holiday gathering feel genuinely and completely special through the most vibrant crimson fudgy crinkle cookie exterior and the most tangy cream cheese center and the most dramatically beautiful powdered sugar crinkle pattern in every single festively individual and completely irresistible red velvet crinkle cookie.
We hope they bring the same deeply joyful red velvet crinkle cookie holiday magic and the same completely delighted festive table to your kitchen that they have always brought to ours. Make them, share them, and come back to tell us all about it. With all our love, Maria, Lucia, and Teresa.
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Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies The Most Easy Chewy Fudgy Cocoa Red Velvet Cream Cheese Powdered Sugar Crinkle Individual Cookie Recipe
- Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes including chilling
- Yield: 18 to 20 cookies 1x
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
The most extraordinary festive Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies made by first beating 4 oz softened cream cheese 3 tbsp powdered sugar and 1/2 tsp vanilla smooth dropping teaspoon-sized portions on parchment-lined sheet freezing 30 minutes until firm then whisking 1 3/4 cups flour 2 tbsp cocoa 1 tsp baking soda and 1/4 tsp salt beating 1/2 cup softened butter and 1 cup sugar 2 minutes light and fluffy adding 1 room temperature egg 1 tsp vanilla 1 tbsp red gel food coloring and 1 tsp white vinegar mixing combined adding 1/2 cup room temperature sour cream mixing then flour mixture just combined covering and refrigerating 30 minutes preheating oven to 350°F removing one frozen cream cheese portion flattening 1 tbsp dough in palm placing cream cheese center wrapping completely rolling smooth pressing and rolling most generously in powdered sugar placing 2 inches apart baking 10 to 12 minutes until dramatic crinkle pattern forms and edges just set cooling 5 minutes on sheet. A completely perfect fudgy chewy crimson cream cheese center powdered sugar crinkle red velvet cookie recipe.
Ingredients
4 oz Full-Fat Brick-Style Cream Cheese softened for filling
3 tbsp Powdered Sugar for filling
1/2 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract for filling
1 3/4 cups All-Purpose Flour
2 tbsp Natural Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp Salt
1/2 cup Unsalted Butter softened
1 cup Granulated Sugar
1 large Egg room temperature
1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
1 tbsp Red Gel Food Coloring
1 tsp White Vinegar
1/2 cup Sour Cream room temperature
3/4 cup Powdered Sugar for rolling
Instructions
1. Beat cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla smooth. Drop teaspoon portions onto parchment. Freeze 30 minutes until firm.
2. Whisk flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
3. Beat softened butter and sugar 2 minutes light and fluffy.
4. Add egg, vanilla, red food coloring, and white vinegar. Mix combined. Add sour cream. Mix.
5. Gradually add flour mixture just combined.
6. Cover and refrigerate dough 30 minutes.
7. Preheat oven to 350°F 175°C. Line baking sheets.
8. Flatten 1 tbsp dough in palm. Place one frozen cream cheese portion in center. Wrap completely. Roll smooth.
9. Roll generously in powdered sugar until completely coated.
10. Place 2 inches apart. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until dramatic crinkle forms and edges just set.
11. Cool 5 minutes on sheet. Transfer to rack.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Dessert, Cookies, Holiday, Valentine’s Day
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 185
- Sugar: 18g
- Sodium: 115mg
- Fat: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 26g
- Fiber: 0.5g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 32mg
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