Fourth of July Blue and Red Velvet Cookies turned out better than I could have imagined.  After making Red Velvet Oreo Cookies at Christmas, I wanted to make something with the red velvet cookie recipe for the Fourth of July Holiday.

These cookies turned out so well I wanted to share them with all of you.  It is an easy cookie recipe that needs to be divided or made in two separate batches. Once batch needs red food coloring and the other needs blue. The cream cheese frosting adds the white for the red, white and blue of July 4.

How to Make

 Fourth of July Blue and Red Velvet Cookies

1.  Use room temperature butter for this recipe.  If you forgot to leave some on the counter, you can soften it in your microwave.  In case you have never used the power button, this is a great time to discover it.  

Leave the butter in the wrapper and place on a plate.  You need one cup of butter for this recipe, so go ahead and put two cubes of butter on the plate.  Cook for one minute but before pushing the start button, push the power button.  Punch in two minutes and push start.  I like to turn the cubes over half way through or only put them in for one minute and then turn them over and keep them in for another minute. Make sure you put the power on level 2 or you will have melted butter.

Use your microwave to soften your butter.

2.  Cream the butter and the sugars.  Whipping the butter and sugars for four minutes will make a huge difference in your cookies.  If you have never done it before, I suggest trying it. My sister made sugar cookies at Christmas and the only thing she did different was cream the butter and sugars for four minutes.  Her children went crazy about how good the cookies tasted.  The only thing she changed was the four minute step.

3.  Add the egg, vanilla, vinegar and red food coloring.  Mix well. 

4.  Mix the flour, cocoa, salt, cornstarch and baking powder.  Gradually add this mixture to the wet ingredients.  I like to add a heaping spoonful of dry ingredients at a time. When you dump in the dry ingredients all at once, you have a chance of the dough not getting mixed together very well or you over mix the dough.   Then your cookie dough does not really work out. 

5.  Take this dough out of the mixer.  Start over making the second batch of cookies but adding in 2 teaspoons of blue food coloring.

You can make one big batch or make two smaller batches like I did.

6.  Roll the dough into balls. Make 18 balls of dough from each color. Smash a red and blue ball of dough together.  Roll this into a ball trying to keep the colors from mixing together too much.  You want to be able to see both colors.  Place this ball of dough on a greased cookie sheet.  Use a flat bottom glass and smash the cookie down so it is about 3/4 inch thick.

You can see the imprint of the glass I used on this cookie!

7.  Leave one cookie blue and another red.  After baking these non mixed cookies, you can use the crumbles to decorate the top of the frosting.

8.  Place the cookies in a 350° oven and bake 9-11 minutes.  Eleven minutes was the magic number in my oven.  Cool completely when done.  Then when frosting the cookies, it will not slide off.

9. Whip the cream cheese and butter together for one minute.  Gradually add the powdered sugar and then mix in a little heavy cream.  Keep alternating between the powdered sugar and heavy cream.  Whip the frosting for four minutes when everything is added.  This really makes a difference. 

So many times I have made this frosting and never needed any heavy cream or milk.  Something magical happens when you gradually add the powdered sugar to the butter and cream cheese.  Some how it incorporates the sugar and makes the most delicious frosting.

10.  Frost the cookies.  I like using a plastic bag and then cutting off a corner.  This gives me a perfectly round circle that I can swirl on top of the cookies.

11.  Crumble the solid blue cookie and red cookie into small bowls.  Use these crumbles on top to decorate.

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