Red Velvet Cookies With White Chocolate Chips
These red velvet cookies with white chocolate chips taste just like red velvet cake - moist, creamy, and soft with loads of white chocolate chips. The addition of red food coloring makes these cookies pop with a beautiful red color - perfect for special occasions such as Valentine's day!
Ingredients
- 1 + ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, note for me: changed from ½ c to ¼ cup*
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- ½ cup salted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon red food coloring, liquid or gel
- 2 cups white chocolate chips, divided
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cream of tartar.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter and granulated sugar until combined and fluffy.
- Beat eggs and vanilla extract into the large bowl until the batter is fluffy.
- Add food coloring and mix well, scraping down the sides of the bowl thoroughly to ensure the color is evenly distributed throughout the batter. Add enough food coloring to make a vibrant dark red.
- Mix the dry ingredients from the small bowl into the red batter.
- Fold in 1 cup of white chocolate chips. Freeze for 15-30 minutes until can easily form balls.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or grease lightly and set aside.
- Use a cookie scoop to measure about 1 ½ tablespoon of dough balls. Leave about 2 inches of space between scoops.
- Bake in the oven for 9 minutes.
- Remove the cookies from the oven. Immediately press a few of the remaining white chocolate chips into the tops of the warm cookies. You will probably have leftover white chocolate chips.
- Allow them to cool on the pan for 2 to 3 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack to cool the rest of the way.
- Serve once cooled.
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