Red Velvet Oreo Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
These homemade Oreo cookies use a red velvet cake mix to speed along the baking process and result in super moist, very delicious cookies.
Prep Time15 minutes mins
Cook Time8 minutes mins
Total Time23 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Cake Mix Cookies, cream cheese frosting, red velvet cookies, red velvet sandwich cookies, sandwich cookies
Servings: 18
Calories: 321kcal
Cookies:
- 15.25 ounce red velvet cake mix
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup vegetable shortening
Frosting:
- 8 ounces cream cheese (softened to room temperature)
- ½ cup butter (softened to room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2½ cups powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Mix together cake mix, eggs and shortening until well combined. The dough will be pretty thick.
Roll dough into balls, making sure they are all similar in size.
Place dough onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8 minutes.
Immediately transfer cookies to a cooking rack.
Cream together cream cheese, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar until smooth.
Spread onto cooled cookies and sandwich together.
- The dough does not need to be chilled before baking.
Calories: 321kcal | Carbohydrates: 35g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 39mg | Sodium: 310mg | Potassium: 119mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 26g | Vitamin A: 254IU | Calcium: 59mg | Iron: 1mg