Hi all!
Its been forever since I last posted, but I had some time today and thought I'd share some of what I baked up over my term break a couple weeks ago. I saw this particular recipe on Bakerella a while back and it had been on my "to bake" list for quite some time. I finally got around to baking them for a birthday party for one of my school friends. I will definitely use any excuse to eat something red velvet :) I followed these directions exactly and didn't have any problems with the recipe itself. The only thing I had difficulty with was that I tried to dye the cookies purple for a more spring theme. I thought that if I just added blue to the already red colored batter, they would come out purple. They didn't. They turned brown and looked like regular chocolate cookies (a little bit of purple showed through if the light hit them right). Oh well--they still tasted really, really good. Here's the recipe:
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies:
Cookies
Ingredients:
1 Box red velvet cake mix (any cake mix will work)
1/2 Cup butter, softened to room temperature
2 Eggs
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix ingredients until combined.
Drop spoonfuls of cookie batter onto baking sheet about two inches apart.
Bake for 10-12 minutes.
Cool.
**Tip: For consistent size cookies, use a 1.5 inch small ice cream scooper when placing batter on the baking sheet. The finished cookie size will be about 3 inches wide.
Cream Cheese Filling
Ingredients:
1/2 Cup butter, softened to room temperature
1 8 oz. Package cream cheese, softened to room temperature
1 1lb. Box of confectioner’s sugar
1 tsp Vanilla
Directions
In a mixer, cream butter, cream cheese and vanilla.
Gradually add sugar and mix until smooth.
**To assemble, spoon a small amount of frosting on the flat side of one cookie. Take another cookie and press together until frosting is flush with the edge. Makes about 24 cookies or 12 cookie sandwiches.
Anyway, I highly recommend these cookies! Tasty and easy to make--what could be better? Sorry I don't have any process pictures, I was so busy cooking a bunch of stuff that day that I only was able to get the final product.
Hope everyone had a happy Mother's Day! I know my sisters and I are really missing our mom today, but are so very grateful for the other wonderful women in our lives!
So they actually taste like red velvet? The color's throwing me off, but I bet they're just delicious.
ReplyDeleteFood coloring doesn't have a flavor my dear, so yes, it still tastes like red velvet (in fact, red velvet would look just like chocolate anyway without the addition of red food coloring).
ReplyDeleteThey look delicious!
ReplyDeleteWell then answer me this, what is the difference between red velvet and chocolate cake? I always hear that red velvet is just chocolate with food coloring, but I taste a difference. Am I crazy? Is this a terribly dumb question?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that Red Velvet cake and Devil's Food Cake are almost the same thing (Red Velvet just uses red food coloring or beets to get the different color). They both are different from traditional chocolate cakes because they use buttermilk and cocoa. Red velvet cakes may also use a little more vinegar--as this is supposed to help bring out the red hues in the cocoa--and this gives it a slightly tangier taste (or so I've read).
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