Nice Ruby Velvet Cookie Cake

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It’s the twenty-four hr menses afterward Thanksgiving, thence the Christmas baking flavor is inwards sum swing but about here. I beloved baking treats to hand away to menage unit of measurement as well as friends. As I was trying to invention out my cookie baking schedule this year, I know I wanted to construct something that looked festive — mean value red, white, as well as green! Red velvet instantly popped into my head, as well as the thought for this delicious cookie cake was born. 

I beloved making cookie cakes for a diverseness of reasons. First of all, y'all don’t bring to curlicue out the dough into balls. Just press it into a cake pan or a springform pan, as well as you’re done. Also, they’re a lot of fun to decorate. As y'all tin forcefulness out encounter inwards the pictures, I but made a decorative border alongside the cream cheese frosting, but y'all could absolutely write "Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays” inwards the center!

While I’m on the topic of cream cheese frosting, I but wish to betoken out that I used Challenge cream cheese as well as butter. My frosting was non equally flavorful earlier I started using their products. The sense of savour is superior because Challenge uses existent cream, as well as at that topographic point are no hormones, additives, or fillers.

Red Velvet Cookie Cake

Yield: Serves 10 to 12 people

Ingredients for the cookie

• 1 3/4 loving cup flour 
• 1/4 loving cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 loving cup Challenge butter, softened
• 1 loving cup brownish sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 to ii Tablespoons red food coloring

Ingredients for the cream cheese frosting

• 4 ounces Challenge cream cheese, softened
• 1/4 loving cup Challenge butter, softened
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla

Directions for the cookie cake

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Spray springform pan alongside nonstick spray as well as gear upwardly aside. If y'all don’t bring a springform pan, a cake pan volition too work.
2. Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, as well as common salt inwards a medium bowl. Set aside.
3. Beat together butter as well as brownish saccharide until smooth. Add eggs as well as vanilla extract as well as shell again. Add ruby-red nutrient coloring — mixture should endure vibrant red.
4. Slowly add together flour mixture to moisture ingredients as well as mix until but combined.
5. Add dough to springform pan as well as purpose wax newspaper to press downwards the dough until the halt is smooth. Bake for almost eighteen to 22 minutes, or until the transcend is gear upwardly as well as the edges get-go to trace away from the pan. Let cool earlier frosting

Directions for the frosting

1. Beat together the butter as well as cream cheese until smoothen as well as evenly combined. Add the powdered saccharide as well as vanilla as well as shell until smooth. If frosting isn’t thick enough, add together a picayune to a greater extent than powdered sugar.
2. Once cookie cake has cooled, pipage frosting but about the edges as well as decorate alongside sprinkles if desired.