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Pink Velvet Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Soft, chewy, sweet. These pink velvet sugar cookies are topped with a light and fluffy cream cheese frosting.

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Pink Velvet Cookies

Here we go again – more variations on a sugar cookie! If you love the pink velvet cookie from that one bakery, you will love these! They are honestly a dead ringer (and maybe even better!)

The pink velvet cookie is a soft, chewy, cake batter-flavored cookie topped with a rich cream cheese icing. I used my medium cookie scoop for these cookies and it worked out perfectly. You could also make these into large bakery-style cookies.

Pink Velvet Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Equipment Used

  1. Baking Sheets
  2. Electric Mixer or Stand Mixer
  3. #40 Cookie Scoop

Enough chatter – let’s get to it!

Ingredients:

-1 cup butter

-1 cup sugar

-2 eggs

-1 tsp cake batter flavor

-Pink food dye

-2 tsp baking powder

-1 tsp cornstarch

-3 cups flour

Frosting Ingredients:

-4 oz cream cheese

-1/4 cup salted butter

-2 cups powdered sugar

-2 tbsp milk

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

  1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
  2. Add in eggs, a few drops of pink food dye (color to preference) and cake batter flavor, mix until combined
  3. Add in baking powder and flour, 1 cup at a time, and mix until combined
  4. Scoop cookies and bake for 8 minutes. I always recommend under baking! The cookies will continue to cook some after being removed from the oven. So if they don’t seem completely done at the 8 minute mark, it’s ok! Take those suckers out of the oven.
  5. If you plan to frost cookies, gently press the tops of the cookies while they’re still warm to create a flat surface for frosting. I usually use the bottom of a glass for this. Do not smash your cookies! Just lightly press the top down slightly to create a flat top surface.
  6. Let cookies cool before adding frosting.

Frosting

  1. Cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy with the whisk attachment on your electric mixer
  2. Add in 1 cup of powdered sugar until combined
  3. Add in 1 tbsp of milk and the almond emulsion, mix
  4. Add in the second cup of powdered sugar, cream until combined
  5. Mix in last tbsp of milk
  6. Frost cookies, enjoy!
Fresh baked pink velvet cookies with cream cheese frosting with a soft, chewy center
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Pink Velvet Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Recipe by MaeganCourse: Drop Cookies, Sugar Cookies
Servings

4

servings
Prep time

30

minutes
Cooking time

40

minutes
Calories

300

kcal

Ingredients

  • -1 cup butter

  • -1 cup sugar

  • -2 eggs

  • -1 tsp cake batter flavor

  • -Pink food dye

  • -2 tsp baking powder

  • -1 tsp cornstarch

  • -3 cups flour

  • Frosting Ingredients:

  • -4 oz cream cheese

  • -1/4 cup salted butter

  • -2 cups powdered sugar

  • -2 tbsp milk

Directions

  • Pink Velvet Cookies
  • Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
  • Add in eggs, a few drops of pink food dye (color to preference) and cake batter flavor, mix until combined
  • Add in baking powder and flour, 1 cup at a time, and mix until combined
  • Scoop cookies and bake for 8 minutes. I always recommend under baking! The cookies will continue to cook some after being removed from the oven. So if they don’t seem completely done at the 8 minute mark, it’s ok! Take those suckers out of the oven.
  • If you plan to frost cookies, gently press the tops of the cookies while they’re still warm to create a flat surface for frosting. I usually use the bottom of a glass for this. Do not smash your cookies! Just lightly press the top down slightly to create a flat top surface.
  • Let cookies cool before adding frosting.
  • Cream Cheese Frosting
  • Cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy with the whisk attachment on your electric mixer
  • Add in 1 cup of powdered sugar until combined
  • Add in 1 tbsp of milk and the almond emulsion, mix
  • Add in the second cup of powdered sugar, cream until combined
  • Mix in last tbsp of milk
  • Frost cookies, enjoy!

Maegan

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