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 desserts as well as easy cookie recipes. I even put together Cake Mix Baking Secrets and Printable to help you make more delicious cake mix recipes.

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!

Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies

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!

Ingredients:

Exact measurements are listed below in the recipe card. Make sure you scroll down to print and save the recipe 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
1/2 cup softened butter

To decorate the sandwich cookies:

Valentines Day sprinkles

Directions:

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

Ingredients for Red Velvet Cookies in bowl

Drop cookie dough by rounded spoonfuls onto the parchment baking sheets and 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

How to Make Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting

The secret to having a cake mix recipe taste homemade is to use homemade frosting. I chose to use homemade cream cheese frosting to sandwich between the red velvet cakes.

Ingredients:

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

Directions:

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

Ingredients for homemade cream cheese frosting.

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.

Spread homemade cream cheese on the red velvet sandwiches

Decorate with fun colorful sprinkles and serve!

Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies with Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting from Walking on Sunshine Recipes

A few other Valentine’s Day Recipes:

Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies from a Cake Mix

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:

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.
Remove the cookies from the baking sheet and place on a cooling rack while you prepare the frosting.

How to Prepare the Frosting:

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 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!

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

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