My Red Velvet Heart Cake Mix Cookies are finally here and are PERFECT for your upcoming Valentine’s Day festivities! With only three ingredients in the cookies themselves, a shimmery coating in sanding sugar, and a white chocolate heart on top, these cookies are sure to be a hit!

Once again, we’re using a cake mix as our base, so grab your favorite box of cake mix, and let’s hop right into the kitchen!

10 Cookies for Valentine’s Day Series

I love a good series, so I thought for this month, we’d make 10 different kinds of cookies that will be perfect for Valentine’s Day! We did cakes last month, so I thought it’d only be fair :). Between now and Valentine’s Day, I have 10 cookies that are each just as tasty as the last. Starting with these yummy cake mix ones!

Ingredients to make red velvet cake mix cookies

Like I said before, you only need three ingredients! The other two are just for decoration, so I guess there’s technically 5, haha. But I promise they’re still just as easy. To make these red velvet heart cake mix cookies, you’ll need:

  1. Vegetable oil
  2. Eggs (room temperature)
  3. Red Velvet Cake Mix. I used Duncan Hines, but Betty or Pillsbury should be similar enough.

You also will need a couple other things to make these cookies extra special:

  1. Red Sanding Sugar – I’ve linked it here.
  2. White Chocolate Hearts. The hearts here are the Hersheys Cookies & Cream hearts from Walmart or any other stores with Valentine’s Day candy.

Roll the cookies

Roll ’em up in the sanding sugar and bake them up! Super easy, right? When they’re baked through, you’ll need to immediately press on the white chocolate hearts so that they can get all melty right into the hot cookies.

TIP: Make sure to let the cookies with the hearts on top sit for about 15 minutes so that the melty hearts can return back to a solid.

Do they need to chill first?

Nope! No chilling required for these ones.

Storage tips:

To store these cookies, make sure the white chocolate comes back into a solid, then store them in an airtight container. They keep soft up to a week at room temperature. You can easily freeze them and keep them for much longer.

Here’s a video of the process:

As always, I’d love to see your Baking with Blondie inspired bakes! Make sure to tag me @bakingwithblondie or #bakingwithblondie on social media so I can join in on all the fun!

Happy Baking!

xo,

Mandy

Get the Recipe: Red Velvet Heart Cake Mix Cookies

Soft cake mix red velvet cookies with sanding sprinkles and a festive white chocolate heart on top!
Servings: 20 cookies
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Ingredients
 

Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies

  • 15.25oz Box Red Velvet Cake Mix, I used Duncan Hines, but anything similar should be fine
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 large eggs , room temperature
  • 1-2 cups red sanding sugar
  • 20 unwrapped white chocolate heart candy, I used Hersheys cookies and cream hearts (with pink bits in them!)

Instructions
 

For the cookies

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, prep a cookie sheet with a sheet of parchment paper or nonslip mat, then set aside.
  • In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix together the cake mix, vegetable oil, and eggs until combined, about 45 seconds.
  • Pour the red sanding sugar onto a plate or small bowl, then scoop the cookie dough (about 1" scoop) into a ball, then roll it into the red sanding sugar. Place the cookie onto the prepped cookie sheet about 2 inches apart, and repeat.
  • Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, remove from the oven, add to a cooling rack, then immediately place on the white chocolate heart. The heat from the cookies should melt the bottom of the heart into the cookie. Let cool for about 20 minutes to set the white chocolate. Store in an airtight container for up to a week.
Author: Mandy Merriman – Baking with Blondie