Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies from a Cake Mix

Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies from a cake mix are perfect for Valentine's Day or any time you need a special treat for your family. I love using cake mixes to prepare desserts as well as easy cookie recipes like this recipe I'm sharing with you today.

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

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!

Make sure you check out my Cake Mix Baking Secrets and Printable as well as my other Cake Mix Recipe Hacks to help you make easy, delicious recipes that use a box of cake mix as an ingredient.

Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Using a homemade frosting makes any ordinary cake mix recipe taste homemade or even from a bakery. It really does make all the difference in the world. A few of my favorite homemade frosting recipes already on the blog are:

• Homemade Chocolate Frosting
• Coconut Pecan Frosting
• Homemade Chocolate Ganache
• Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting - which is what we're using for this recipe.

Red Velvet Mix

These red velvet sandwich cookies with cream cheese frosting are easy to make too because they use a boxed cake mix.

However, if you are looking for a Homemade Red Velvet Mix Recipe, try my Patriotic Cupcakes. They start out with a homemade red velvet mix and I think would work great for this recipe too!

VALENTINE’S DAY GIFT TAGS

The perfect homemade treat for Valentine’s Day deserves really cute cards and gift tags. Check out a few of my favorites:

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Helpful Kitchen Tools

• Large cookie scoop - helps to make sure all the red velvet sandwich cookies are the same size when putting them on the baking trays.
• Parchment Baking Sheets - really helps to make sure the cake mix cookies don't stick.
• Pastry piping bags - you don't have to use them but I like how pretty the sandwich cookies look with the cream cheese frosting piped inside the cookies.

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Ingredients for the Sandwich Cookies: 

Exact measurements are listed below in the recipe card. Make sure you scroll down to print and save the recipe for later!

• 1 box red velvet cake mix, 15.25 ounces
• ½ cup butter
• 2 eggs
• Valentines Day sprinkles - to decorate the red velvet sandwich cookies.

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Ingredients for the Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting

• 3 ½ cups powdered sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 8 oz. cream cheese
• ½ cup softened butter

Directions: 

Step 1: Prepare the Cake Mix Batter

In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix, ½ cup butter, and 2 eggs.

Step 2: Use a Cookie Scoop

Drop cookie dough by rounded spoonfuls, onto the parchment baking sheets. A large cookie scoop works great too!

Step 3: Baking Directions

Bake for 10-11 minutes.  Remove the cookies from the oven and transfer them to a baking rack to cool while you prepare the frosting. 

Step 4: How to Make Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting

In the bowl of a KitchenAid mixer, combine the butter, cream cheese, and vanilla until fluffy.  Then mix in powdered sugar and combine. 

Step 5: How to Frost the Cookies

Once the red velvet sandwich 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.

Step 6: Decorate with fun colorful sprinkles and serve!

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A few other Valentine's Day Recipes: 

• Heart Shaped Treats
• Valentines Day Ice Cream Floats
• Heart Shaped Chocolate Covered Strawberries
• Valentines Day Chocolate Covered Pretzels
• Heart Shaped Oreo Truffles

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This recipe has been updated since it first appeared in 2018 with new photos, information and a new printable recipe card that includes nutritional information. I hope you enjoy the updates as much as I enjoyed working on them!