Do you love red velvet cake? You will love these red velvet cookies. This recipe uses real chocolate, which you will melt. Once melted, pour into the batter and mix. This recipe uses sour cream and yogurt. This gives this cookie that red velvet flavor that you love! Easy to follow step by step instructions, anyone can bake these cookies.
Two options to choose:
1st option: Add chocolate chips! Yum!
2nd option: Frost with cream cheese frosting (shown here)!
Either way, these tasty cookies will disappear from your cookie jar quickly.
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease the baking sheets or spray with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
- Break the chocolate squares into small pieces and place in a small microwave safe bowl. microwave on high heat for 60-90 seconds. Stir chocolate until smooth and set aside to cool.
- In a medium bowl add flour, baking soda and salt and mix well.
- In a large bowl add brown sugar and granulated sugar with the butter. Cream the butter and sugars togeather.
- In the large bowl add the egg and mix until smooth.
- Add red food coloring and, chocolate; mix well, scraping the sides of the bowl.
- Add yogurt and sour cream, and mix well.
- Add 1/2 dry ingredients and mix well.
- Add remaining ingredients and mix well. You may fold in chocolate chips if you like here.
- Place on prepared baking sheets about 2 inches apart and bake at 375 degrees F. for 9 minutes.
make cream cheese frosting
- In a small mixing bowl for electric mixer add cream cheese, yogurt, confectioners sugar and vanilla extract, and blend well about 2 minutes. If frosting is too runny place in refrigerator to chill for 20 minutes.
