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Posted: 05/01/2009

Red Velvet Whoopie Pies

Name: Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 24 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 1/2 cups canola oil; 1 teaspoon white vinegar; one 1-ounce bottle red food coloring; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 1/2 cups sugar; 2 eggs; 1 cup buttermilk; 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour; 1 cup milk; 1 cup sugar; 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, softened; 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening (such as Crisco); 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes 0 Reviews Jump to Recipe

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Soft, cake-like cookies are sandwiched together with a cooked frosting in these red velvet whoopie pies that everyone will love.

It all started at Costco a few weeks ago. You all know that when it comes to Costco, I’m a sucker for picking up a cheap cookbook. I wrote all about it in my Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies post. But I’ve been trying to be better and use what I have at home instead of spending more money. A few weeks ago, I decided just to walk by and just glance at what they had. I ended up picking up a copy of The Deen Family Cookbook and started looking through it’s pages.

There, towards the back, was a picture of the most beautiful cupcakes. Now, I love red velvet>, and I love a good whoopie pie, so when I saw this picture of red velvet whoopie pies, I was in love.

But I was a good girl and put the book back down. I don’t need another cookbook, I thought to myself. And I definitely don’t need to be eating more cookies – especially after all the treats from last month. I put the book down and walked away.

Then last week, I was watching an episode of the Rachael Ray Show. Paula Deen was a guest that day, and guess what she made?? These Red Velvet Whoopie Pies. I knew right then that it was destiny that I made these cookies. And I needed a new cookbook for the May Cookbook of the Month, so it couldn’t have been better timing!!

I did have a few issues with these cookies – mainly from the instructions. The original recipe says to “drop by teaspoonful”. And that’s what I did for the first batch. I ended up with these cookies that were so cute and little – but it would have taken me all day to make them, and I would have ended up with about a million cookies!! For the rest of the batter, I made them into regular sized cookies – 12 cookies to a cookie sheet. I don’t know how many cookies I actually ended up with because my husband kept eating the unfilled cookies!

We really enjoyed these cookies. But I have to admit – and all you true Southerners out there please don’t boycott me – but I love cream cheese icing with red velvet. This filling was good, but I missed the tang of the cream cheese. But even without the cream cheese icing, these cookies got high marks from us!

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