Easy Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies

•Posted: Dec 23, 2021

These Easy Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies use some help from the store! A boxed cake mix and just a few ingredients is all you need to make them!

Don’t you just love these super easy dessert recipes? Especially around the holidays when everyone is cooking and baking and wrapping. Also check out our Polish Cream Cheese Cookies and a family favorite, Grandma’s Nut Cup Cookies!

Easy Cookie Recipe That The Kids Can Bake!

Here’s a dessert recipe that you can easily hand off to the kids and have them go to town. All you need is a boxed cake mix and a few other ingredients to get started!

Our boys love getting involved in the holiday cooking, for one they get to have samples and for two it gets them out of cleaning. So they choose cooking. These Easy Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies are one of their favorite things to make!

How Do You Make These Crinkle Cookies?

Start with a box of red velvet cake mix. This recipe will adapt to any flavor cake mix that you like, so grab a few and make a variety!

Add a couple of eggs, melted butter and a splash of cream to the cake mix and mix it all together. Use a scooper to make balls of the cookie batter and drop right into a bowl of powdered sugar.

Don’t try and roll them out in your hand because the dough is very wet. Drop the balls of dough right into your powdered sugar and roll around to coat.

Place the balls of dough onto a baking sheet, spacing out a couple pf inches between each cookie. I found that using a small 1 1/2 inch scooper I could easily fit 12 cookies on each sheet pan.

When they come out of the oven, they magically look like crinkle cookies!

I have to admit, I was a little surprised that this method worked, but it totally doe and they look and taste amazing. Again, you can use any flavor store bought cake mix that you like to make these crinkle cookies.

Chocolate, confetti, vanilla, strawberry, devil’s food, honestly…any flavor.

How Long Do These Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies Last After Baking?

I know a lot of people start making their Christmas cookies a week before Christmas and that’s totally fine, but I’d wait just a few days before the holiday to make these crinkle cookies.

Honestly, that’s just my opinion though, my kids were eating these cookies a week after we made them and they thought they were just as good. I feel like the confectioner’s sugar seeps into the cookie a bit after a few days, that’s really the only reason I like to make them fresh.

So I’d say the perfect window is 3 days before you need them, but always fresh is best!

How Do You Store These Cookies?

In your favorite cookie jar, air tight container or a ziploc bag. We’re not huge bakers, so when we do bake things it’s often in a ziploc bag for storage! I know that’s not super cute but it works. We got a super cute cookie jar from our son’s girlfriend last year for Christmas so now we can at least use that!

Can You Freeze These Crinkle Cookies?

Yes, they freeze beautifully, like most cookie recipes. Freeze them in a single layer in a freezer bag or in a container separated by parchment or wax paper. Freezing the cookies this way will help them to not stick together when they are frozen, so you can take a few out for snacking or grab the whole package!

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