Red Velvet Crunchies from: Cake and Punishment
Soft chewy red velvet chocolate chip cookies. Do not preheat the oven because the dough has to be chilled for one hour.
Ingredients
- 1½ cups cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
- ¾ cup packed light or dark brown sugar
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg, at room temperature
- 1 Tbsp whole milk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 Tbsp red food coloring, liquid or gel (you might need more, depending on how red you want your cookies to look)
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips plus ½ cup for after baking to stick on top for decorations
Instructions
- Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl. Set aside.
- Use a mixer to beat the butter on high speed until creamy.
- Beat in the brown sugar and granulated sugar until combined and creamy.
- Beat in the egg, milk, and vanilla extract.
- Once mixed, add the food coloring and beat until combined.
- Turn the mixer off to add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
- Mix on low and slowly beat until a very soft dough is formed.
- Add more food coloring if you'd like the dough to be brighter red, which I do. I eyeball this.
- On low speed, beat in the chocolate chips.
- The dough will be sticky.
- Cover the dough tightly with plastic wrap and chill for at least one hour. It has to be chilled.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Put parchment paper [or silicone baking mat] on two baking sheets and set aside so they are ready for you to place the dough on once you've rolled it into balls.
- Scoop up 2 tablespoons of dough and roll into a ball. (If you need a photo,please check out Tonyakappes.com, where you will find a photo under "Maymee Bell Recipes.")
- Place nine balls on each baking sheet. Bake each batch for 10-11 minutes.
- The cookies may have only spread slightly because the center will be nice and moist. If you want to press down the warm cookie, you can, and it will make crinkles on top. I stick a few chocolate chips on top and in the crinkles for decoration only.