RED VELVET THUMBPRINT COOKIES

Red velvet thumbprint cookies are the perfect tender, buttery cookie with a hint of chocolate filled with a cheesecake filling. They are the perfect blend of red velvet flavors in a delicious cookie form!

These cookies are made with simple delicious ingredients- Flour Butter Brown Sugar Eggs Cocoa Powder Cream Cheese Sour Cream Vanilla Salt Red Gel Food Coloring

First cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, egg yolk and sour cream are blended together and refrigerated to create the cheesecake filling.

Then the flour, salt and cocoa powder are whisked together.

Butter, sugar, egg and vanilla are creamed together in a large mixing bowl

Then the dry ingredients are added to the butter mixture to create a delicious chocolate cookie dough.

Red food coloring is then added to create a rich red colored dough.

Balls of dough are rolled into red sanding sugar.

The cookie dough is placed on a parchment lined baking sheet and then an indentation is pressed into the center.

The cookies are filled with the cheesecake filling and baked to perfection!

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