These stunning vegan cookies have all the flavors of red velvet cake but in cookie form. Coated with both granulated sugar and powdered sugar causes beautiful crinkles to form when baking. Often, impressive cookies are more difficult and time consuming to make, but this recipe is super simple. You can make the dough in one bowl and there is no chilling required. Whether you’re making them for Valentine’s Day, Christmas or just a lazy Saturday, everyone will fall in love with these red velvet crinkle cookies!
Tips for success
Measure flour correctly – I use the spoon and level method. Spoon flour from container into a measuring cup, then level it off with a knife, without shaking or patting down the flour.Red food coloring – Use actual red food coloring, not a natural version like beet powder, for the prettiest results. Scroll down for vegan options.Natural cocoa powder – While you could use dutch processed cocoa powder, it will result in darker cookies, so they won’t look exactly like mine.Bake in the center rack – Unless you have a convection oven that bakes evenly throughout, bake one cookie sheet at a time, in the center rack of your oven. Baking two sheets at a time rarely works out well.
Vegan red food coloring
This can be a little confusing, so I’ve done some research for you! McCormick Culinary Red Food Color is vegan friendly. It’s the only decent product I know of that is in fact, vegan. If you didn’t know, many red food coloring comes from beetles. However, the one linked to above does not, it contains FD&C Reds 40 and 3, which are not the ones that come from bugs. I know red food coloring is not a health food, but I basically only use it for red velvet cupcakes, cake and perhaps sugar cookies.
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