Red Velvet Cookies Amongst Cheesecake Filling

 

I owe you lot an apology. I convey been MIA, simply I create convey an excuse: I've completely torn apart my kitchen (pictures to come!). I'm talking refinishing the cabinets (myself, gasp), ripping downwards dry out wall, installing novel countertops, the works. Which agency my baking has been pose on temporary hold.

But non completely.

I latterly challenged my friend to a bake-off for a footling mid-week entertainment. (What has my life come upwards to? I know.) The exclusively rule: The recipe had to come upwards from Pinterest. Our guess was my man, Frank, which gave me a slight advantage. He's a devout follower of all things cherry velvet, thence I settled on Red Velvet Cookies alongside Cheesecake Filling. The cite lonely is plenty to brand me drool.

 

The cheesecake filling was a fleck laborious to prepare. I had to brand the filling, ringlet it into footling balls, thence freeze it. (My patience is lacking, thence I didn't freeze it for the total ii hours, though.) But, wow, the reward was big. The cookies had the divine, chocolatey depth of cherry velvet cake, together with the filling contributed the perfect sum of pure, sugary sweetness. The white chocolate drizzle was the icing, quite literally, on an incredible cookie.

Oh, together with my dessert won. Obviously.

Red Velvet Cookies alongside Cheesecake Filling
Courtesy of two peas & their pod

What you lot need

For the cookies:
1 box cherry velvet cake mix

2 Tbsp all-purpose flour

2 large eggs

½ loving cup canola oil 

1 tsp vanilla

For the filling: 

4 oz cream cheese, at room temp

2 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla 

For the drizzle:

1 ½ cups white chocolate chips, melted

Put it all together

1. Thoroughly combine the cake mix together with flour inwards a large bowl. Then, mix alongside eggs, oil, together with vanilla extract until smooth. Wrap the dough inwards plastic wrap, together with refrigerate for at to the lowest degree 2 hours.
2. To brand the filling, work an electrical mixer to combine the cream cheese, powdered sugar, together with vanilla, mixing until smooth. Scoop out teaspoon-size balls, house on a plate, together with freeze for at to the lowest degree 2 hours.
3. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a large baking canvass alongside parchment paper. Flatten most a quarter loving cup of dough inwards your hand, together with wind it roughly a frozen ball of cheesecake filling. Roll into a ball, together with house on baking sheet. (Only bake 3 cookies per sheet. They spread.) Bake for 11-13 minutes, together with take from oven. Cool for v minutes, thence transfer to a cooling rack together with allow cool completely.
4. Melt the white chocolate chips inwards a microwave-safe bowl, stirring every xxx seconds. Drizzle over the cooled cookies.