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I made these cookies yesterday, and they came out great! But for some reason, they didn\u2019t come out red at all, only brown. I thought I had added enough red food coloring since the batter was red-ish before adding in the mixture with the cocoa.<\/p>
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Putting all that aside, I still loved them. But I accidentally made mine too big, so I only made 12 instead of 24!<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"Rating","ratingValue":5,"worstRating":1,"bestRating":5}}]},"video":{"data":{"status":204},"message":"No shortcode found in recipe"},"rms_legacy_id":"271514","romance_copy_dek":"Cream cheese and red velvet cake go together like bread and butter, so I figured why not make a cheesecake-filled red velvet cookie? The key ingredient here is farmer cheese: a denser, drier cheese similar in texture to feta. 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