Super Soft Cookies
These easy vegan red velvet cookies and topped with melty white chocolate and they're just so soft! If you're looking for a simple cookie recipe, check this one out!
Also be sure to see my vegan banana chocolate chip cookies which were posted a few days ago. It's cookie heaven over here at the moment!
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Ingredients For This Recipe
- All-purpose flour
- Cocoa powder
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Granulated sugar
- Light brown sugar
- Vegan white chocolate - I like to use Moo Free vegan white chocolate
- Vanilla extract
- Vegetable oil
- Soy milk
- Red gel food colouring - gel food colouring is better quality than standard colouring
How To Make Vegan Red Velvet Cookies
Step By Step Instructions
For the full method and ingredient amounts, please refer to the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
Step One
Line a baking tray with parchment paper. Set aside.
Step Two
Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.
Step Three
Add the wet ingredients to make a cookie dough. Roll into balls and bake.
Step Four
Let your cookies cool.
Tips For Making Red Velvet Cookies
Use red gel food colouring
This is by far the best type of food colouring for red velvet cakes. It's high quality and it actually gives the cookies a pleasant red colour (unlike other food colourings).
Don't buy the standard 'wet' food colourings that you find in every supermarket or you'll probably end up with brownish red velvet cookies.
If your cookie dough is a little dry
Add an extra half teaspoon of soy milk at a time until it reaches a consistency where it is bindable and only slightly sticky.
Customise This Recipe
- Use vegan dark or milk chocolate. I always use white chocolate for vegan red velvet cookies but people do prefer other types of chocolate chips which also work very well.
Frequently Asked Questions
Red velvet cookies are more than just a red-coloured cookie. They have deep chocolatey and vanilla flavours and they tend to be quite rich. I like to fill mine with chocolate chips or chunks.
If you use ordinary red, low-quality food colouring, the colour will often come out as a brownish colour. Use a quality red gel food colouring for bright red cookies.
How To Store My Vegan Red Velvet Cookies
Store for 3 days in an airtight container at room temperature.
More Red Velvet Recipes
PrintVegan Red Velvet White Chocolate Cookies
- Total Time: 17 minutes
- Yield: 6 cookies 1x
- Diet: Vegan
Description
These vegan red velvet cookies are super soft and easy to make. They're topped with vegan white chocolate. Hope you enjoy!
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
- 125g all-purpose flour
- 0.5 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 0.5 teaspoon baking soda
- 0.25 teaspoon salt
- 50g granulated sugar
- 50g light brown sugar
- 20g vegan white chocolate (chopped into chunks)
Wet Ingredients:
- 0.25 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 Tablespoons soy milk
- 1 teaspoon red gel food colouring* (see notes)
Instructions
Preparation:
- Line a large baking tray with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Preheat your oven to 160 Celsius (325F).
Make the red velvet cookie dough:
- To a medium-sized mixing bowl, add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, both sugars, light brown sugar, and white chocolate. Mix to combine.
- Now, add the vanilla extract, oil, soy milk and the red gel food colouring. Fold your dry ingredients into the wet ingredients to form a nice, red cookie dough. It may seem a bit dry, but the consistency will gradually improve.
Bake the cookies:
- Use a cookie scoop to scoop 1.5 tablespoons of cookie dough from the bowl for each cookie. Roll your red velvet cookie dough into balls and place onto the baking tray 2-3 inches apart.
- Bake the cookies for 12 minutes in the centre of the oven. When they come out from the oven, let them cool for 10 minutes.
Notes
- Use red gel food colouring instead of the standard red liquid food colouring. This will give the cookies a far nicer colour as it is better quality.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Bakes
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Red Velvet Cookies
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories: 173
- Sugar: 18.5 g
- Sodium: 205.9 mg
- Fat: 2.8 g
- Carbohydrates: 35.1 g
- Protein: 2.6 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
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Chloe Tymon says
This recipe is great. These red velvet cookies are the best!
★★★★★