Red Velvet Peppermint Crinkle Cookies

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It's December and I am officially ready for Christmas! The lights, the music, the presents, the COOKIES! As I'm blogging this post, I am listening to Christmas music on Pandora. Sing it to me, Harry Connick Jr. What a wonderful time of year! ♥

Red Velvet Peppermint Crinkle Cookies

As wonderful as this time of year is, I know folks can get overwhelmed with all there is to do. I don't even have kids yet and I don't seem to have enough time to get everything done. How do you do it, moms?

The nice think about this recipe is that I used a cake mix for the base of the cookies. Easy peasy!
{Here are a few more cake batter cookie recipes: Funfetti Cake Batter Cookies, M&M White Chocolate Candy Corn Cank Batter Cookies}

My foodie friend, Liz, over at Southern Charm, had a giveaway the other day and I won some Duncan Hines coupons. {She's pretty awesome. Go check her out!} So I bought a Red Velvet Cake mix and got started. 

I altered this from Duncan Hines Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies. The original recipe has lemon in it and no peppermint.

If you ask me, the peppermint is a necessity! These cookies are not overly sweet, which I like, but the peppermint is a nice addition. Plus it's pretty!

Red Velvet Peppermint Crinkle Cookies

     makes about 36

1 box Duncan Hines Red Velvet Cake

6 T butter

2 eggs

1 tsp peppermint extract

1/2 C crushed peppermint or candy canes

1 C powdered sugar

1 tsp cornstarch

Preheat the oven to 375°. Melt the butter and set aside to cool. In a large bowl, mix together the cooled butter, cake mix, eggs and peppermint extract. Add in the crushed peppermint and stir. In a shallow dish, mix together the powdered sugar and cornstarch with a fork. 

Now, Duncan Hines says to form into balls, but I had a HARD time doing that because the dough is so sticky. So, here's my special tip. 

Take two spoons and drop a blob of dough in the powdered sugar like this.

Move it around with spoon until it is mostly covered in powdered sugar. Then, once it is already covered, roll it into a ball and place it on a cookie sheet. Believe me, this is one MILLION times easier!

Make sure you don't over crowd the baking sheet. These babies spread out. 

Bake these for 9 minutes. (They won't look done but they are. I tried 10 and 11 minutes and each were too long). Take them out of the oven and cool for one minute. Then move onto a cooling rack. They will be chewy with little pieces of crunchy.

Plate up to serve,

or box up for gifts. 

Christmas is my favorite holiday and these cookies would be fun to take to a Christmas cookie swap! If you need a few more Christmas ideas, click on my holiday page!

Now if I could just make everything on my Christmas Pinterest board! *sigh* One thing at a time I guess! ☺

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These cookies, and several of my other Christmas goodies are linked up on the Pressed Down, Shaken Together Blog. Click on the photo below for ideas for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas!

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