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12 Days of Christmas Cookies: Cream Cheese Stuffed Red Velvet Cookies

Day nine of Christmas Cookies is sure to dress up your holiday party. Red velvet cookies look festive and can add a delicious touch of fancy to your Christmas gatherings. There’s no doubt these cookies will be flying off the tray before you even have a chance to put them down.

 

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Cream Cheese Stuffed Red Velvet Cookies

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Day nine of Christmas Cookies is sure to dress up your holiday party. Red velvet cookies look festive and can add a delicious touch of fancy to your Christmas gatherings. There’s no doubt these cookies will be flying off the tray before you even have a chance to put them down.

  • Author: Crystal Plant
  • Prep Time: 30 + 90
  • Cook Time: 13
  • Total Time: 0 hours

Ingredients

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1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1/3 cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup packed light or dark brown sugar

1 large egg

1 Tablespoon milk

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

1 Tablespoon red food coloring

Cream Cheese Filling

4 ounces full-fat block cream cheese, room temperature

1 3/4 cups confectioners sugar

1 Tablespoon flour

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

Cookie Dough

  1. Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt together until combined. Set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, beat the butter, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, and the brown sugar together on high speed until completely smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Add the egg, milk, and vanilla extract and beat until combined, about 1 minute.
  3. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl as needed.
  4. On low speed, slowly mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until combined.
  5. Finally, beat in the food colouring.
  6. Add 1-2 teaspoons more for a brighter red, if desired. The cookie dough will be slightly sticky.

Cream Cheese Filling

  1. In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar, flour, and vanilla extract together on medium-high speed until completely smooth and creamy, about 3 minutes.
  2. Drop teaspoonfuls onto a lined baking sheet that will fit in your freezer.
  3. Freeze for at least 90 minutes.
  4. Remove cream cheese spoonfuls from the freezer.
  5. Roll each into a ball as best you can. Place back in fridge.
  6. Preheat oven to 350°F

Assemble the Cookies

  1. Remove cookie dough from the refrigerator. Roll cookie dough, 1 Tablespoon each, into balls.
  2. Using your thumb, make an indent into one cookie dough ball.
  3. Remove cream cheese balls from the refrigerator. Place one inside the indentation.
  4. Cover the cream cheese ball with another cookie dough ball and mold the two dough balls around the cream cheese, making sure it is completely covered and snug inside.
  5. Repeat with remaining cookie dough and cream cheese.
  6. Roll each stuffed cookie dough ball in remaining granulated sugar and arrange 3 inches apart on the baking sheets.
  7. Bake for 12-13 minutes or until edges appear set. Centres will look soft.

 

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Crystal Plant

Crystal is a Red Seal Chef who currently resides with her Husband in the Ottawa Valley. She Is the Food Service Co-Ordinator for the Algonquin College Waterfront Campus. She studied Culinary Arts at George Brown and has taken her studies abroad to Italy. With a passion for local food, she strives to stick to a farm-to-table lifestyle. She enjoys spending time in nature with her husband and two dogs.

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