My daughter saw Red Velvet Cookies on Pinterest. I liked the idea, but was hesitant to take a chance on a new recipe. Instead, I used our tried and true 1995 McCall's Magazine Cocoa M&M's Cookie recipe (click here).
FYI: With or without M&M's, this is a great basic chocolate cookie you can have a lot of fun with and enjoy eating!
RED VELVET COOKIES
1 ¼ cups flour
½ cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
¾ cup sugar
½ cup unsalted butter, softened
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
New! 1 1/2 tablespoons Adams Extract Red food coloring
Preheat oven to 350. In medium bowl, mix flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. In large (to be covered) bowl, combine sugar and butter. At high speed, beat 2 minutes until creamy. Beat in egg and vanilla, beat 2 minutes. Beat in flour mixture. Chill one hour or until dough is firm.
Roll dough in 1” balls and then roll in colored sugar, sprinkles/jimmies and/or powdered sugar. Place 2” apart on cookie sheets. Bake 10 minutes, switching racks at 5 minutes. Cookies should start to have cracks. If possible, cool and enjoy! Hubby and daughter polished off a dozen warm while my back was turned.
Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
Though I am composing a letter to Adams Extract about making their bottles a little bit easier to pour and measure. Yikes! Be forewarned to have lots of paper towels handy...and to hide them in your garbage can lest your kitchen look like crime scene!
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