These cookies are too delish to pass up. Chocolate Chip Cookies are always a favorite. Yet, at the holidays, many people shy away from these cookies and instead make traditional and more inspired pastries. Sometimes, though a chocolate chip cookie is what you are craving. These cookies are unique and fit just perfectly with the Christmas season.
Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes three dozen servings
Ingredients
- 3 cups + 2 tbsp of All Purpose Flour
- ½ cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 2 teasp Baking Soda
- ½ teasp Salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) Unsalted Butter – room temperature
- 1 ½ cups packed Light Brown Sugar
- ½ cup white Granulated Sugar
- 2 Large Eggs – room temperature
- 2 tbsp Buttermilk
- 4 teasp Vanilla
- 3 tbsp Red Food Color
- 2 cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- 2 cups Dark Chocolate Chips
DIRECTIONS
- Whisk flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda in a large bowl and set aside.
- With a hand-held or stand mixer, cream butter until light and fluffy
- Add in sugars and mix until blended
- Add in eggs one at a time
- Add vanilla
- Add buttermilk and food coloring and mix until combined
- You will want to use a good, strong red food color – the ones in with the baking supplies in Walmart or Craft stores are much more intense and you need that for the deep red color.
- Add more food coloring until the dough is very bright red. Cookies will brown in the oven and the color becomes faded if you do not use enough.
- Add in the dry ingredients and mix until combined.
- Stir in the semi-sweet chips.
- Dough will be sticky. Cover and chill at least 1 hour.
- Roll into balls and place on cookie sheet covered with silicone mat or parchment paper.
- Bake in a preheated 350* for 10 min.
They should be slightly puffy when done. Watch the time so the bottoms do not become too dark.
Remove from the oven and press 3-4 dark chocolate chips into each cookie while still on the warm cookie sheet
After 5-10 minutes, transfer to a rack to cool.
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