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Red Velvet Snowflake Cookie

December 10, 2013

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Red Velvet Cookies perfect for WINTER!

These Red Velvet Snowflake Cookies are just perfect to make as soon as the cool weather hits!   

Red Velvet Snowflake Cookies @createdbydiane

It was snowing in my kitchen all weekend.

Well, it could have snowed outside, it’s been really cold here in Southern California…..you’d think we were somewhere else.

Since it was cold outside it felt like the perfect SNOW day to me.

Well, that is in the kitchen at least.

I couldn’t wait to get rolling out the dough to start on some Christmas Cookies this year.

These cookies are pretty and easy tomato and don’t take all day to ice either.

red velvet snowflake cut out cookies createdbydiane.com

I just love snowflake cookies and since these cookies are already red, there wasn’t a need for the whole cookie to be iced in a solid color first. This was a huge time saver and allowed me to make many more cookies.

The bright red color of these cookies is just perfect for this time of year!

 

Red Velvet Cookie Dough in Mixer

 

I made a double batch of my red velvet cut out cookie dough and well, I think it’s almost time for a larger mixer If I wish hard enough maybe Santa will bring me one!

 

Red Velvet Cut Out Cookies

I use Lorann’s Red Velvet Bakery Emulsion and it imparts flavor and color, so it’s the perfect one-step red velvet helper!

 

I roll and cut out the cookies to 1/2″ and place them on a parchment lined baking sheets.

 

Red velvet Snowflake Cookies

 

The cookies are brighter red when baked.

Often I will bake the cookies on one day and ice them the next. Especially when I make multiple batches of cookies.

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I DOUBLED THE Cookie recipe below to make 6 dozen cookies.

Red Velvet Snowflake Cookie
 
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Serves: 3 dozen cookies
Ingredients
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1-2 tablespoon red velvet emulsion
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon dark chocolate cocoa powder
  • 1/4 cup melted chocolate chips (Ghirardelli 60% cacao)
  • 3 cups flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 tablespoon dry buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
  1. Cream the butter and sugar in a mixer with a flat blade attachment.
  2. Add egg, mix in red velvet emulsion, vanilla, cocoa, and melted chocolate.
  3. Blend in flour baking powder, dry buttermilk, and salt.
  4. Mix until dough pulls away from the paddle and begins to form a ball.
  5. Roll out in between wax paper sheets or flour the surface.
  6. Cut into the desired shape with a cookie cutter.
  7. Bake on a parchment lined baking sheet at 400 degrees for 7-9 minutes.
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Royal Icing

ROYAL ICING recipe:

this makes more than enough icing, you can store the leftover icing in the fridge for other projects.

Royal icing can be iced onto wax paper into any shape to create an icing transfer, like sprinkles, snowflakes to place on top of cookies or cakes, here are some gingerbread men I made for cupcakes.

Red-Velvet-Cut-Out-Cookies-with-Royal-Icing-@createdbydiane

 

Royal Icing
 
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Ingredients
  • 2 pounds powdered sugar (each pound of powdered sugar is about 4.5 cups of powdered sugar)
  • 1/3 cup + 1 tablespoon meringue powder
  • 3/4 cup warm water
  • 1-2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Mix powdered sugar and meringue powder on low for 1 minute until it's fully blended.
  2. Add water and extract and mix on low until it's mixed well.
  3. Then turn the mixer on medium and beat until the icing is stiff 8-10 minutes.
  4. Add water to thin to the consistency you need. (add drops at a time!)
  5. You can store royal icing at room temperature or in the refrigerator for a few weeks.
  6. Whip it if it becomes separated.
  7. I added a few drops of Ivory Americolor Food Coloring. It gives the cookies an antique type of look.
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Red Velvet Christmas Snowflake Cookies with Royal Icing @createdbydiane

I love how these cookies look “antiqued” the red crackles a bit and with the cream colored icing they look a bit old fashioned. Perfect for Christmas time.

 

I piped the icing on with a number 2 icing tip.

Allow icing to dry before stacking or wrapping cookies about 8-10 hours.

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Red velvet Snowflake cookie recipe from @createdbydiane
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78 Comments Filed Under: Christmas, Cookies, Frosting/Icing, Holidays, Sweet Tagged With: chocolate, Christmas, Christmas Cookies, Cookies, Red Velvet, Royal Icing

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Comments

  1. Jen @ Jen's Favorite Cookies says

    December 10, 2013 at 6:09 pm

    I’m seriously in love with these! They are so beautiful!

    Reply
  2. Gloria // Simply Gloria says

    December 10, 2013 at 6:27 pm

    Diane, I seriously have my snowflake cookie cutters out! I came over here to find a yummy and unique cut out cookie recipe. .. because you have the best! Now, I’m going to make these tonight and ice them tmrw. ..then present them at a cookie swap party on Thursday. I’d say, this was perfect timing. Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
    • Diane says

      December 10, 2013 at 10:22 pm

      I hope you love them as much as I do 🙂

  3. Jocelyn @BruCrew Life says

    December 11, 2013 at 6:10 am

    These are so pretty! I love the white against the red!!!

    Reply
  4. Rachel @ Baked by Rachel says

    December 11, 2013 at 1:29 pm

    These are seriously SO pretty!

    Reply
  5. Kathy says

    December 12, 2013 at 8:19 am

    These are gorgeous. I am going to make these this weekend. Thanks.

    Reply
  6. Jackie says

    December 14, 2013 at 6:09 am

    Hi Diane – I love your site and all of the recipes and creative tips that you share – thank you!

    I was about to buy the ivory Americolor gel paste for the royal icing but the color sample looks almost flesh-tone. Does it take on the ivory color when mixed in the icing?

    Reply
    • Diane says

      December 15, 2013 at 9:35 am

      Ivory is a pretty color and doesn’t look like flesh colored when it’s mixed, I think the swatch is dark on the bottle. I just use a small amount and the ivory color is really pretty.

  7. Pamela @ Brooklyn Farm Girl says

    December 15, 2013 at 9:19 am

    You did such a amazing job with these cookies, the shapes are perfect! Love the bold color too.

    Reply
  8. Carla says

    December 15, 2013 at 3:09 pm

    Your cookie skills always amaze me. These snowflakes are practically perfect!

    Reply
    • Diane says

      December 15, 2013 at 8:09 pm

      Thanks Carla, you’re so sweet!

  9. Nutmeg Nanny says

    December 18, 2013 at 9:43 am

    These look amazing 🙂 my husband loves red velvet, I can’t wait to make these for him!

    Reply
  10. Janzelle says

    December 23, 2013 at 7:15 pm

    I got the ingredients today and made the dough and the cookies with a snowflake cookie cutter and they turned out so good!! My parents and brothers and sisters really like them and I still have a bunch of dough left over! Thank you so much for sharing!

    Reply
    • Diane says

      December 23, 2013 at 9:29 pm

      I’m so glad you liked them, they are really my new favorite this season.

  11. david says

    December 28, 2013 at 1:14 pm

    these look terrific. I’m a bit late for this year but next year for sure. Thank you!

    Reply
    • Diane says

      December 28, 2013 at 6:56 pm

      Oh it’s never too late for cookies, I’m baking some of these tomorrow 🙂

  12. Shirley says

    November 21, 2014 at 9:16 am

    I would love to make these cookies but don’t see the actual recipe anywhere…I see the images & the descriptive text but no recipe.

    Reply
    • Diane says

      November 21, 2014 at 11:57 am

      The links to the recipes are in the post. I colored them, the words are in red and green. Sorry you weren’t able to find them. Here is the link to the cookie recipe https://www.createdby-diane.com/2012/05/red-velvet-cut-out-cookies-with-red-velvet-icing.html
      and here is the link to the royal icing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v9r3Yr_UX7hgtNk85ADDaNLY_uO8QN27fRH7-c_oqfc/edit
      If I’ve previously made a recipe, but remade it into something new, there will be a link back to the original post. The first post often have tips and step photos that won’t be in the new post. Hope that info helps.
      Happy Baking ~Diane

  13. April says

    November 22, 2014 at 8:37 am

    starting my holiday baking soon! These are beautiful. Do they freeze well?

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    • Diane says

      November 22, 2014 at 10:48 am

      Yes, these cookies freeze well. I have frozen them with glaze icing covering the cookies, but not royal icing. My suggestion would be to bake all the cookie and freeze them. Then defrost and ice them a couple days before you need them. That way the icing is fresh and not crumbly.

  14. Marissa says

    December 4, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    A lady asked for a cake last minute this week. She was saying how much she loved red velvet. Then I just happened to stumble across this on pintrest! Since I do cookies I thought it was grand timing. This will be an awesome surprise for her from me. Thank you!!!

    Reply
  15. Lindy says

    December 4, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    how many does one batch of these usually make

    Reply
    • Diane says

      December 5, 2014 at 8:00 am

      a single recipe makes 3 dozen cookies the thickness and size cookie cutter I use

    • Patti George says

      December 19, 2014 at 9:44 am

      Do you really cut themto 1/2 inch thickness? That seems quite thick for cookies

  16. Julie says

    December 5, 2014 at 1:37 pm

    I made up a batch of this dough and it’s really sticky and not at all “cookie dough” consistency, so I can’t roll it out. Tried adding a little more flour, and just put it in the fridge to see if it would set up a little more. Did I miss something, or possibly could it be that I used a gluten free all purpose flour blend?

    Reply
    • Diane says

      December 6, 2014 at 6:37 pm

      The recipe works very well as written. As with any recipe if you make changed that is bound to change the end result. I don’t have experience with Gluten free flour, but I imagine it would be different. You may want to try looking up adjustments to make when baking with GF four when substituting for all purpose flour.

  17. Linda says

    December 6, 2014 at 6:54 am

    I’m so excited that I have the same cookie cutter recipe as you. I wanted to make some cookies with my toddler, so these look like the perfect recipe. Thanks.

    Reply
  18. Vivi says

    December 12, 2014 at 4:50 pm

    OMG so beautiful! I should bake those tonight! thank you! 🙂

    Reply
  19. Brittany says

    December 14, 2015 at 3:16 pm

    Since you doubled the cookie recipe, is the icing recipe doubled as well? Or if I was making the original cookie recipe, should I half the icing recipe?
    (the recipe for red velvet cookies, the hearts have glaze icing on them. They are two different recipes.
    Thanks

    Reply
    • Diane says

      December 14, 2015 at 5:08 pm

      I didn’t double the royal icing recipe and had enough icing as these cookies are not flooded in so less icing was used to just create the snowflake decoration on each.

  20. Whitney says

    December 16, 2018 at 12:37 pm

    Hi! I would like to make this recipe but would have to order the emulsion. What in the emulsion makes it different from red food coloring. I have never seen or heard of a red velvet emulsion until now

    Reply
    • Diane says

      December 17, 2018 at 11:11 am

      The red velvet baking emulsion adds both color and flavor, if you don’t have it use red food coloring (a paste is best as you’ll want a bright red color, I use Americolor reds they are great without an off flavor like Wilton colorings have, and add another tablespoon of dry buttermilk, to get a tang. It’s not the same as the emulsion, but will do in a pinch!)

  21. Ruth says

    December 5, 2019 at 12:19 pm

    I can’t wait to make these for an upcoming cookie exchange.

    I’m wondering where you found the snowflake cookie cutter and how large it is, snowflake tip to tip width?

    Reply
    • Diane says

      December 5, 2019 at 4:09 pm

      The cookie cutter is about 3-1/4″ (I don’t have it in front of me now, but I measured it before and recall it being over 3″ and almost 3-1/2. Cookie cutters are so readily available now, I posted this one 6 years go when they were much harder to find… Craft stores, baking supply stores, home goods, marshalls, Target/walmart. I recall I had to buy a package of sugar cookie mix to get this size cutter at that time. Here is one on amazon: this is the closest I could find online https://amzn.to/2YkwMQc it’s a set. But you may be able to find one local to you.

    • Ruth says

      December 6, 2019 at 7:23 am

      Thanks, I’ve seen that size a bunch of places. Just wanted to make sure it wasn’t larger as I’m calculating the number of cookies I’ll make. Thanks!

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