Red Velvet Halloween Cookies are perfect for your next Halloween party! These delicious cookies have a delicious chocolate flavor and make the perfect chewy cookies. If you’re a fan of red velvet recipes, you’re not going to want to miss out on these!
Having a red cookie at your Halloween party is an absolute must! What I think you’ll enjoy most about these cookies is their undeniable red velvet taste. Don’t save these for special occasions. Make these chewy red velvet cookies right away!
If you love recipes like this, you may also enjoy these Halloween Oreo Cake Bars as well. You can never have too many spooky treats.
Ingredients for Moist Red Velvet Cookie Recipe
- Unsalted butter – For this recipe, the butter needs to be cold and cut into cubes.
- Granulated white sugar – Great for adding a small batch of sweetness.
- Eggs – Great for binding the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients to make the cookie dough.
- Vanilla extract – Pure vanilla extract works best.
- Red liquid food coloring – I like using liquid food coloring, but gel food coloring could work, too.
- Unsweetened cocoa powder – This makes that chocolate cookie flavor.
- Baking soda – Helps add a fluffy texture.
- Cornstarch – makes these cookies chewy!
- Salt – Omit if you use salted butter instead of unsalted butter.
- Cake flour – A simple way to make a good recipe into a great recipe to make a soft and yummy cookie.
- All-purpose flour – You can sift to remove any lumps.
- Oreo Cookies – Take out the cream, as you just need the cookie part.
How To Make This Red Velvet Crinkle Cookie Recipe
The complete list of ingredients, quantities, and instructions can be found in the printable recipe card below.
- Step One: Preheat the oven to 410° degrees F. In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the cubed cold butter and granulated sugar. Using a paddle attachment on low speed for 1 minute, combine the ingredients. Increase the speed to high for 1 minute, scrape the sides for even blending.
- Step Two: Add the eggs, one at a time to the sugar mixture, make sure it is completely combined. Add the vanilla and mix until combined.
- Step Three: Add the red food coloring and cocoa powder and mix on low until combined. In a medium sized bowl add the cake flour, flour, baking soda, cornstarch, and salt. Whisk to combine.
- Step Four: Add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture and beat until combined. Scrape the sides to make sure it is completely combined. Refrigerate the uncovered dough for 20 minutes to chill.
- Step Five: Using a digital cooking scale, use your hands to measure out 3.5 o of dough, forming it into a ball. Place the crushed Oreos in a medium sized bowl.
- Step Six: Roll the cookie dough into the crushed Oreos, lightly pressing the Oreos into the dough. Place the cookie dough balls about 3″ apart from each other on a parchment lined baking tray. Bake in the center rack of the oven for 10-11 minutes.
Remove from the oven and let cool.
How to Store
if you have leftovers of these red velvet crinkle cookies, let them cool down to room temperature and then store them in an airtight container. They should stay fresh for up to 3 days.
Variations to Recipe
You can add some white chocolate chips to this recipe for more sweetness! Regular chocolate chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips will work, too!
FAQs
You can line the baking sheet with parchment paper which will be a huge help!
Yes, you can. Just let them cool down and then store them in a freezer-safe bag. They should be fine in the freezer for up to 1 month.
The best way to tell that the cookies are done baking is to look at the edges and top. There should be no wetness on the top of the cookie, and the edges should be golden brown.
Need more Cookie recipes? Try these:
- Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Crumbl Copycat Recipe – Oreo Birthday Cookie
- Delicious Crumbl Blue Monster Cookie Recipe
- See all our dessert recipes here.
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Red Velvet Halloween Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter cold and cubed
- 1½ cups granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp red liquid food coloring
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup cake flour
- 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups Oreo cookies crushed and cream removed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 410° degrees F.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the cubed cold butter and granulated sugar. Using a paddle attachment on low speed for 1 minute combine the ingredients. Increase the speed to high for 1 minute, scrape the sides for even blending.
- Add the eggs, one at a time to the sugar mixture, make sure it is completely combined. Add the vanilla and mix until combined.
- Add the red food coloring and cocoa powder and mix on low until combined. In a medium sized bowl add the cake flour, flour, baking soda, cornstarch, and salt. Whisk to combine.
- Add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture and beat until combined.
- Scrape the sides to make sure it is completely combined.
- Refrigerate the dough uncovered for 20 minutes to chill.
- Using a digital cooking scale, use your hands to measure out 3.5 o of dough, forming it into a ball. Place the crushed Oreos in a medium sized bowl.
- Roll the cookie dough into the crushed oreos lightly pressing the Oreos into the dough. Place the cookie dough balls about 3" apart from each other on a parchment lined baking tray. Bake in the center rack of the oven for 10-11 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let cool.
Nutrition Information
These red velvet cookies came out so delicious! Very easy to make. Loved the addition of Oreo cookies!
These cookies are totally irresistible!! Such an amazing recipe to keep!!
These turned out so yummy and were a hit with the kids! We stashed some in the freezer to enjoy later, too. Yum!
Love these! Perfect spooky appearance for halloween but so so tasty!