Dark Red Velvet Cookies With Melting Chocolate are an ideal recipe for Easter baking. You can make these cookies in dark red velvet color at home in 50 minutes. Just warm them up in the microwave or on the pan for 20 seconds and enjoy the melting chocolate. And the best part? There is a chocolate egg hiding in the middle of the cookie.
INGREDIENTS:
- 130 g unsalted butter room temperature
- 120 g brown sugar
- 1 egg room temperature
- 1 egg white room temperature
- 2 tsps vanilla extract
- 195 g flour
- 50 g cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsps cornstarch
- 150 g chopped white chocolate
- a pinch of salt
- 8 mini chocolate eggs frozen
- 2 tsps vinegar
- ½ tsp red food coloring
These cookies are definitely AMAZING AND UNBELIEVABLY INCREDIBLE. Is that too aggressive? Well, it should be. Excuse my french but the is the shit.
And now for real.
Imagine the perfect cookie. Melting chocolate with a little crunchy bottom. Let’s add a perfect piece of fudgy brownie into that. Isn’t that what dreams are made of?
PERFECT FOR EASTER BAKING
I think this can be one of your go-to recipes for Easter. These cookies are very simple to make so you can take your mum, aunt, nephews, cousins, and whoever enjoys baking, and make these delicious soft cookies. If you though that Brownie Cookies were easy to make, try these. With special ingredients:
- frozen chocolate egg
- chopped white chocolate
- red food coloring
- vinegar
I understand that people are skeptical when it comes to red food coloring. Eating dessert with food coloring a few times a year cannot hurt anybody. Especially in this recipe 1/2 of the teaspoon should be enough.
Frozen chocolate eggs kinda make this party better. Put the chocolate egg into the freezer before baking (2 hours) so it’s completely frozen. You will hide the chocolate egg in the cookie and let chill the cookie in the freezer for at least 30 minutes. You’ll see how delicious the outcome will be.
Let’s address the elephant in the room – why vinegar? Well, let me tell you.. I wanted to make these nice bright red velvet cookies but I added too much cocoa powder. So I heard that adding vinegar can make the color brighter (disclaimer – I liked this color so I didn’t add much). Adding vinegar to cake batter is pretty normal and you cannot taste the vinegar in the end. And you know what? People were right.
What does vinegar do in cakes? When you add vinegar and baking powder/baking soda, it creates the chemical reaction that makes products rise while baking. So the cake reaches a moist texture and will become fluffier. That’s what happened in this case. AND I DON’T REGRET IT!
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When you decide to make these cookies, I have a few tips for you:
- room temperature ingredients
- whisking the flour with baking soda, baking powder, cornstarch
- adding enough red food coloring (and high quality)
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Dark Red Velvet Cookies With Melting Chocolate
Ingredients
- 130 g unsalted butter room temperature
- 120 g brown sugar
- 1 egg room temperature
- 1 egg white room temperature
- 2 tsps vanilla extract
- 195 g flour
- 50 g cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsps cornstarch
- 150 g chopped white chocolate
- a pinch of salt
- 8 mini chocolate eggs frozen
- 2 tsps vinegar
- ½ tsp red food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170°C. Prepare the baking sheet with a baking paper.
- Start by mixing the butter and brown sugar until creamy. Continue by adding eggs, egg white and vanilla extract. Mix again.
- Add red food coloring. Add as much food coloring as needed. The better quality coloring you use, the richer the red color will be. Also add vinegar.
- In a bowl whisk the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cornstarch, salt, and cocoa. Add the flour mix into the bowl and whisk on medium speed.
- Once your cookie dough is soft, add chopped white chocolate and mix well with a rubber spatula.
- Make 110 g balls from the dough and hide a frozen chocolate egg inside of the ball. Make cookie balls and let them chill in the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
- Put cookie balls on the baking sheet and bake them for 13 minutes. Take them out of the oven and let rest on the baking sheet for the next 10 minutes.
Notes
- put the chocolate eggs in the freezer before making these cookies
- use less cocoa powder for nice red velvet color (30-40 g of cocoa)
- if you decide to make smaller cookies, bake them for 9-11 minutes
- for a nice look add extra white chocolate on top of the cookie ball before putting the baking sheet into the oven
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