Red Velvet Cookies

If you love Red Velvet Cake, you need to try it in cookie form.

Cookie Ingredients:

2 1/2 c flour

1 1/2 c sugar

14 tbsp unsalted butter, room temp

1 tsp white vinegar

2 1/2 tsp vanilla

2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tbsp red food coloring

2 eggs room temp

extra sugar to roll the cookies in before baking

Icing ingredients:

3 c powdered sugar

8 oz cream cheese

2 tsp vanilla

4 tbsp unsalted butter

Using your electric mixer, combine the butter and sugar until it's smooth.

Add the eggs, one at a time, to the mixer.

Now add the vanilla, vinegar and food coloring.

In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt together.

Slowly add the flour mixture to the wet mixture and mix until combined.

Measure out a heaping tablespoon full of the dough. Roll the dough around in the extra sugar set aside to coat them, then roll the dough into balls and place on a baking sheet.

Bake in an oven that's been preheated to 350° for 8-10 minutes.

Remove from the oven and place the baking sheet on a wire rack to cool for a couple of minutes before placing the cookies directly on the wire rack to cool completely.

To make the icing, using the electric mixer, combine the cream cheese and butter together.

Now add the powdered sugar, a little at a time to the mixer.

Now add the vanilla.

Either cover the cookies completely with the icing, or pipe it on like I did.

Hope you enjoyed this instructable, if you make these, let me know what you think!