Crunchy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside. Perfectly cooked and amazingly delicious. These Red Velvet cookies are exactly what you need to sweeten your tooth. Let’s cook together and have fun! 🙂
This recipe makes about 14 large cookies
Ingredients
- 2 1/3 cups Flour
- 2 tbsps Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 2 tsps Cornstarch
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/4 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 3/4 cup Melted Butter
- 1 cup Light Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 1 Egg Yolk
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 tsps Red Food Coloring Gel
- 1 tsp White Vinegar
Making the cookies
I started by mixing together the flour, cocoa powder, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, and the salt in a bowl. In a stand mixer, I placed the melted butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar and mixed until well combined. I then added the egg, the egg yolk, vanilla, and red food coloring and mixed for about 30 seconds on medium speed. I then rested the mixture for 3 minutes then mixed for 30 seconds. I repeated the process 3 times. Resting and mixing the dough for short period of time gives the cookie its chewy interior. I then added the vinegar and the dry ingredient mixture and folded them together using a rubber spatula. I made sure not to over-mix, once my cookie dough has formed, I stopped mixing.
To make my cookie balls, I separated my dough into 14 pieces. Each piece was about 3 tbsp of dough. I formed each piece of dough gently into the ball with the as little pressure as possible. The objective was to form the dough into a ball without compressing it. I placed a silicone mat in a baking sheet and distributed all the dough balls on it and covered them with plastic wrap (max of 8 cookies per baking sheet). I placed them in the fridge and left them there for 2 hours (2 hours is the minimum amount the dough should rest in the fridge; you can leave them up to 12 hours in the fridge before you bake them).
I preheated my oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 180 Celsius. I placed my baking sheet in the middle rack for 11 minutes and then removed them out of the oven. When my cookies came out of the oven their top was still soft. This is normal. The outside of the cookie will continue to dry while the cookies cool down. I let them cool for 15 minutes on a cooling rack. I Finally decorated them with a drizzle of white chocolate to finish.
To serve my cookies, I wanted to make them into a Red Velvet Ice Cream Sandwich. I placed a some vanilla ice cream between 2 cookies and forgot everything anyone told me about calories and diets. This was a delicious desert. I hope you make it and love it!
Enjoy! 🙂
