Quick and Easy Red Velvet Cookies and Cake

Let's be honest. We've all made boxed cookies and cake before. When you're in a rush, those ready made mixes are perfect. I wanted to see if I could modify a box mix to quickly make a batch of cookies and cake for my team. 

The Cookies

• 1 Box Red Velvet Cake Mix
• 1 Stick Butter (room temperature or softer-not all the way melted!)
• 1 Egg
• 1/4 Cup Milk
• White Chocolate Chips (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 365*
2. Add together all of the ingredients (so so easy) and use an ice cream scoop to make rounds of cookies that are perfectly even on a well greased cookie sheet! 
3. Bake about 11 minutes or until set and a little brown on the bottom. 
4. You can use all of the dough to make cookies, or do what I did and do half cookies and half cake! For the cake, keep the dough and move on to the instructions below. 

The Cake

• The remaining mix from above 
• 1 (additional) egg
• 1/2 Cup Milk- 1 Cup Milk
• 1 teaspoon veggie oil

1. Reduce oven temperature to 350*
2. Add the additional egg and make sure it's well incorporated. Add half a cup of the milk, and then the veggie oil. Depending on the amount of batter you have left, you can add remaining milk until it becomes cake batter consistency (a little thicker than pancake batter) 
3. Put into whatever pan you like (I used my mini snowman baking pan above-so cute!)

After your cookies and your cakes cool, use royal icing to decorate and it will harden beautifully!