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Desserts Holidays Recipes Valentine's Day
Published: January 14, 2021 | Last Updated: February 4, 2021 | Author: Lois

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.

red velvet cookies with cream cheese frosting and sprinkles.

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!

red velvet sandwich cookies

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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

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  • 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
  • 1/2 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 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 8 oz. cream cheese
  • 1/2 cup softened butter

Directions: 

Step 1: Prepare the Cake Mix Batter

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

Ingredients for Red Velvet Cookies in bowl

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. 

Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies before adding 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. 

red velvet cake mix cookies cream cheese frosting.

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.

Spread homemade cream cheese on cake mix sandwich cookies

Step 6: Decorate with fun colorful sprinkles and serve!

cake mix cookie sandwiches

Tried this recipe? Let me know in the comments and don’t forget to rate it!

Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies made with a Cake Mix and Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting

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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Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies from a Cake Mix

Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies from a Cake Mix

Yield: 16 cookie sandwiches

Ingredients

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

Instructions

How to Prepare the Cookies:

  1. In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix, 1/2 cup butter, and 2 eggs.
  2. Drop cookie dough by rounded spoonfuls onto the parchment paper and bake for 10-11 minutes.
  3. Remove the cookies from the baking sheet and place on a cooling rack while you prepare the frosting.

How to Prepare the Frosting:

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

How to Frost the Sandwich Cookies:

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

Notes

Depending on how big you make the cookies, you should get around 16 sandwich cookies.

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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 16 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 229Total Fat: 13gSaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 59mgSodium: 119mgCarbohydrates: 27gFiber: 0gSugar: 26gProtein: 2g

The nutrition information is calculated automatically. I cannot guarantee its accuracy. If this data is important to you, please verify with your trusted nutrition calculator.

© Lois

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!


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Originally from Queens, NY, Lois now calls northeastern PA home. You can find her blogging over at Walking on Sunshine where she shares a little of her life, but more importantly what’s for dinner at her house tonight.

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Comments

  1. Michele Morin says

    January 17, 2021 at 8:19 pm

    I can’t remember the last time I made a red velvet cake! Thank you for the reminder.

    Reply
  2. Kat (The Baking Explorer) says

    February 4, 2019 at 5:24 am

    Such a cute Valentine’s treat!

    Reply

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