With a pretty red sparkle, these fabulous red velvet cake mix cookies will be the star of your holiday events. Perfect for holiday parties, cookie swaps, and even gifts for friends and neighbors. If you like candy cane kiss cookies, you’ll LOVE these!
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Looking for some pretty red velvet cake mix cookies? If you were thinking that this Christmas needs something new, then these sparkly, delicious Candy Cane Kiss Cookies will be right up your alley!
Made with delicious Hershey’s Candy Cane Kisses, these fun Christmas cookies are the perfect easy recipe for your next cookie exchange or Christmas party.
These Red Velvet Cookies start with a red velvet cake mix!
These Red Velvet cookies are really easy to make! They start with a fool-proof Red Velvet cake mix, along with just a few other ingredients. The batter is super moist, as it includes both butter and cream cheese! The dough is then rolled in red sugar sprinkles, and baked to perfection.
These red velvet cookies come out of the oven with a beautiful sparkle. While still hot, simply add a pretty red and white striped Candy Cane Kiss, and let cool. Aren’t they lovely?!
Red velvet cake mix cookies perfect for just about any occasion!
One batch of these cookies makes nearly 4 dozen cookies, so these are perfect for putting together cookie plates to give to friends and neighbors. They’re also great for shipping to loved ones that live far away, or keeping on hand for holiday parties, or office & school events.
These would also be great for Valentine’s Day – simply add a white chocolate kiss in the center or any other seasonal Valentine’s day chocolate.
These Red Velvet Candy Cane Kiss Cookies really are the perfect cookie for the holidays. Simple, easy to make, and beautiful enough to bring out for your fancy holiday parties! Enjoy! ~Erin
OXO Good Grips Medium Cookie Scoop (Amazon Link) – The key to getting uniform cookies that are all the same size is to use a cookie scoop. I’ve had this OXO cookie scoop for years, and it works great!
Silicone Baking Mat – Set of 3 Half Sheet (Amazon Link) – One of my favorite baking tools are these silicone baking mats. I use them pretty much anytime I’m baking something on a sheet pan. Fantastic for cookies, and also great for roasting vegetables, sheet pan meals and even tater tots!
Nordic Ware Aluminum Half-Sheet Baking Pans (Amazon Link) – I’m currently obsessed with these baking sheets! Not only do they work wonderfully for cookies, but I love using them for sheet pan dinners, too!
If you loved these delicious Red Velvet Cookies, be sure to check out some of my other delicious Christmas cookie & candy recipes:
- Christmas M&M Cookies
- Christmas Bark
- Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
- Peppermint Red Velvet Fudge
- Penguin Cookies
- Rice Krispie Christmas Trees
- Reindeer Pretzels
- Vanilla Fudge Recipe
- Reese’s Pieces Cookies
- Soft & Chewy Ginger Snap Cookies
- White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
- Chocolate Dipped Ritz Cracker Cookies
- Chocolate Covered Cashews
- Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookies
- Salted Caramel Fudge
Here’s the recipe for these fantastic Red Velvet Candy Cane Kiss Cookies:
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Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies
Equipment
- Stand Mixer This KitchenAid Stand Mixer is a must-have tool for any home baker!
Ingredients
- 1 (13.25 oz.) Red Velvet Cake Mix
- 1 (8 oz. pkg.) cream cheese room temperature
- 1/2 cup butter (1 stick) room temperature
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1 (3.25 oz. bottle) Red Sugar sprinkles
- 2 pkgs. Hershey's Candy Cane Kisses about 48 kisses
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with a silicone making mat or parchment paper. Set aside.
- Using a stand or hand mixer, cream together the butter and cream cheese. Add the egg and extract and cream together until fully incorporated and a smooth consistency. Gradually add the cake mix approximately one cup at a time, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl. Batter will be thick. Refrigerate the dough for 1-2 hours. This will help the dough be less sticking when handling and rolling into balls.
- In a separate medium bowl (like a cereal bowl) pour about half of the red sugar sprinkles.
- Roll cookie dough into 1" balls, and then roll the dough balls in the red sugar sprinkles. Place about 1 dozen cookie balls onto the prepared cookie sheets and bake at 350 for 9-10 minutes.
- While cookies bake, unwrap the kisses, so they are ready to go when cookies come out of the oven. When cookies are done baking, immediately press a kiss into the center of the cookie, and let cookies cool on the sheet for 5 minutes.
- Transfer cookies to cooling rack to cool completely. Serve right away or store in airtight container at room temperature. Can also freeze cookies, and bring to room temperature prior to serving.
Barbara Mason says
I like your site with the recipe’s.
Thank you.
Wishing you A very Merry Christmas.
Mr says
What’s up, after reading this awesome paragraph i am also glad to share my know-how here with friends.
Sanae says
You never cease to crack me up; your sense of humor is as delicious as your coikoe recipe and these are fantastic coikoes! Good thing there’s no limit on how many pins allowed on Pinterest!!!
Marie says
PLEASE TELL PEOPLE TO CHILL DOUGH..MY COOKIES WERE A STICKY MESS AND UNROLLABLE. I HAD TO STICK BATTER IN FREEZER BEFORE I COULD ROLL THE REST. .THEY TASTE GREAT BUT BATTER WAS EVERYWHERE.
Missy says
I made these, too much peppermint for us, I will be making these for Christmas, just using less peppermint, they are delicious and festive !
Amy says
What fun cookies for Christmas! Found you at Over the Moon.
Jill says
I make peanut butter kiss cookies every year and am going to need to swap them out for these! They sound delicious and are so cute and festive!
Jill – Doused in Pink
Carol@BlueskyatHome says
Erin, these cookies are so cute. Thank you for sharing at Happiness is Homemade Link Party. I’m choosing you as one of our features for this week.
Helen at the Lazy Gastronome says
I’m so far behind, but I wanted to make sure I stopped by and thanked you for sharing at the What’s for Dinner party. Hope to see you again this week!