I was looking for a way to use up some cream cheese in my fridge, and I stumbled upon a red velvet cookie recipe in my recipe box. It was love at first sight. Who can resist a fluffy, chocolatey, moist red velvet cake cookie? The consistency of the "cookie" is the perfect balance of red velvet cake moist-ness but the thicker texture of a soft cookie. The cookie itself is amazing, but it's not a true "Red Velvet Cookie" without the cream cheese frosting (it would simply be a red, fluffy, chocolate cookie). This frosting is what really makes these cookies out of this world. Maybe I just hadn't had cream cheese frosting in a while, but it's absolutely divine. I'm not even embarrassed to say that I was eating it by the spoonful. I like my cream cheese frosting not very thick - more like a glaze -, so that you can taste more cream cheesey-ness than powdered sugar. If you like frosting really thick and stiff with powdered sugar, then feel free to add as much as you want...I just prefer less. Anyways...back to the cookies. They are seriously everything you love about red velvet cake, but in cookie form. Hold up - I take that back, because I've never had a slice of red velvet cake that's nearly as delicious as these cookies. I had some warm from the oven with the cream cheese frosting oozing off, and also at room temperature the following day (the cream cheese frosting firms up perfectly the next day). Both incredible...heavenly...to-die-for delicious. My dad nearly fell to the ground on his first bite.
Yield: about 36 small cookies
Ingredients:
Directions:
- If you want to eat the cookies when cooled, then wait to frost them until the cookie has completely cooled. If you just can't resist waiting for them to cool and decide to eat them when warm (which I highly recommend because the chocolate chips are all melty and delicious), then slather the cream cheese frosting on them and dig in(: Just a warning: the cream cheese frosting may ooze a bit on the warm cookies, but that just makes them so much more irresistible.
***you can also make a cookie sandwich with them if you want.
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