Friday, February 4, 2011
A close friend of mine was celebrating her birthday earlier this week and while I was consulting with her regarding her birthday treat she jokingly suggested "red velvet cookies". I instantly replied "Done!" because I had seen so many adorable looking red velvet cookies online all week. She was surprised that such a thing existed and I assured her that in the food world "anything and everything is possible". I had fallen in love with the cute, crackly cookies I spotted on Babble. However, when I made the recipe myself using the homemade version based on a Paula Deen recipe they came out more like whoopie pies than cookies. Rest assured that my disappointment was short lived as these cookies are delicious, especially the day after they are assembled and the cream cheese filling has a chance to moisten the cookies. If anyone decides to try out the cake box version available on Babble, please let me know if those turn out flat and crackly like in the pictures.
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies (adapted from here)
1/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon red food coloring
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add in eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Beat in buttermilk, vanilla and red food coloring. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet.
Scoop dough onto a lined cookie sheet (I piped mine) using a generous medium scoop (2-3 tablespoons). Bake at 375 degrees F for 10-12 minutes until centers appear set. Allow to cool slightly. Then pull the liner onto the wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Cream Cheese Filling 8 ounces cream cheese Cream together cream cheese and butter in a medium bowl. Beat in milk and vanilla. Sift powdered sugar over the wet ingredients and beat in until smooth. Spread in between two cooled red velvet cookies (again I piped mine, just seems cleaner and easier). Makes 10-15 sandwiches.
4 tablespoons butter, softened
2 teaspoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
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10 comments:
Stunning! Perfect for Valentine's Day. Your blog is fantastic, btw!
I can`t stop looking at this! It`s absolutely divine and I want to try this...
Have a great time,
Paula
I love this red velvet cookies...sounds divine !
my recipe for the cheater (cake mix) cookies is a little different (shortening instead of oil), but it's the same idea. and the cookies only come out crackly like in the picture if i drop the cookie sheet to flatten them when i take them out of the oven. I have to drop the sheet a couple times from about 8-12" high. if that doesn't work, you can flatten them with a spatula straight out of the oven to flatten/crackle them! good luck!
These look sooooo so good! I've never been able to do whoopie pies well, but I'm going to give this recipe a go! Wish me luck :)
I loooove the looks of these whoopie cookie pies, no matter what you call them, I'd eat them.
this turned out too chocolatey
These were amazingly delicious!!!
this is amazing
Awesome Post here.
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