Red Velvet Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting are soft sugar cookies with added cocoa powder and red food coloring, frosted in the very best cream cheese frosting.If you love frosted sugar cookies, be sure to try my Sugar Cookie Recipe {Swig Copycat}, too! Red Velvet Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting There is something so lovely about red velvet desserts.The vibrant red color makes these cookies as striking in appearance as delicious in taste! The added cocoa powder gives the sugar cookies a slight hint of a cocoa taste and the contrast of the red coloring and white cream cheese frosting makes for a delightful presentation, too! Ingredients Confectioners’ Sugar: I used confectioners’ sugar in both the cookie dough and the frosting, so be sure to have plenty on hand! Confectioners’ sugar is not the most common type of sugar in cookie dough, but do not leave it out! It adds some texture and softness to the cookies.

Cream of Tartar: Cream of tartar is not a cream at all, but a powdery acid.It can be found in the baking aisle, near the spices at your local grocery store.If you don’t have any on hand, you can replace cream of tartar with fresh lemon juice in a pinch.

One teaspoon of cream of tartar equals 2 teaspoons of fresh lemon juice.(Flavor may be affected.) Food Coloring: I used gel food coloring, which is more concentrated.This means you will not need as much.

You could use liquid food coloring if that is all you have on hand

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