Name: Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: 1 box red velvet cake mix; 1 cup butter (divided); 2 eggs; 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar; 2 tsp vanilla; 8 oz. cream cheese; Valentines Day sprinkles

Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies from a cake mix with a cream cheese frosting are perfect for Valentine’s Day or any time you need a special treat for your family! I love using cake mixes to prepare easy desserts and this recipe is perfect for the red velvet cake lover in your life!

If you love red velvet cake, you are going to love these Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting. Red Velvet is perfect for Valentine’s Day. But really, red velvet is perfect all year round!

These sandwich cookies are easy to make too because they use a boxed cake mix and then you make the homemade cream cheese frosting so the taste is amazing. You can serve these without the fun colorful sprinkles I used or, of course, you can choose sprinkles to go with whatever theme you are celebrating!

How to Make Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies

Make sure you print out the recipe below and save it for later!

For the sandwich cookies:

1 box red velvet cake mix
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs

For the cream cheese frosting:

3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 tsp vanilla
8 oz. cream cheese

To decorate the sandwich cookies:

Valentines Day sprinkles

Let’s Get Baking

In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix, 1/2 cup butter, and 2 eggs.

Drop cookie dough by rounded spoonfuls onto the parchment paper and bake for 10-11 minutes. While the cookies cool you can prepare the frosting.

How to Make Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting

The secret to having a cake mix recipe taste homemade is to use homemade frosting. AND cream cheese frosting is easy and the taste is so much better than the prepared frosting.

Ingredients:

3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 tsp vanilla
8 oz. cream cheese

In a large bowl, mix 1/2 cup butter, cream cheese, and vanilla until fluffy.

Mix in powdered sugar.

How to Frost the Sandwich Cookies

Once cookies are cooked and cooled, pipe the frosting onto one cookie and top with another cookie.
Make sure you flip the cookies over so you have a flat surface on both sides of the icing.
If you don’t want to pipe the frosting on, you can use a knife or an off-set spatula to spread the frosting.

Decorate with fun colorful sprinkles and serve!

A few other Valentine’s Day Recipes:

5 from 1 vote

Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

15 mins

Total Time

25 mins

Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies from a cake mix with a cream cheese frosting are perfect for Valentine’s Day or any time you need a special treat for your family!

Ingredients

1 box red velvet cake mix
1 cup butter divided
2 eggs
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 tsp vanilla
8 oz. cream cheese
Valentines Day sprinkles

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, mix together cake mix, 1/2 cup butter, and 2 eggs.
Drop cookie dough by rounded spoonfuls onto the parchment paper.
Bake 10-11 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a large bowl, mix 1/2 cup butter, cream cheese, and vanilla until fluffy.
Mix in powdered sugar.
Once cookies are cooked and cooled, pipe icing onto one cookie and top with another cookie.
Be sure to flip the cookies over so you have a flat surface on both sides of the icing.
Hold cookies sideways and rotate to sprinkle with fun Valentines Day sprinkles.