Sinful Red Velvet Cookies

Total Time: 17 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) brick cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/2 cup butter, room temperature (1 stick)
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 (18 ounce) box red velvet cake mix
• confectioners' sugar, for rolling and dusting

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream the cream cheese and butter until smooth.
• 2 beat in the egg.
• 3 beat in the vanilla extract.
• 4 beat in the cake mix.
• 5 cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours to firm up so that you can roll the batter into balls.i've chilled batter overnight and it comes out fine.
• 6 after batter has chilled and you're ready to make the cookies, preheat the oven to 350°f.
• 7 roll the chilled batter into tablespoon sized balls and then roll them in confectioner's sugar.
• 8 place on an ungreased cookie sheet, 2 inches apart.
• 9 bake 12 minutes. the cookies should remain soft and gooey.
• 10 cool completely and sprinkle with more confectioners' sugar, if desired.
• 11 to make these devilishly rich, i also top the cookies with cream cheese frosting, which is simple to make. i use bev's cream cheese frosting (cream cheese frosting), but double the vanilla. or, if i'm making them for people i know have more of a savory tooth than sweet, i'll triple it to a full tablespoon.