Red velvet whoopie pies with cream cheese frosting – Soft, cake-like red velvet cookies sandwiched with a smooth sweet cream cheese frosting
This year is the year I’m trying something new, recipes I’m not familiar with, conquer classic American recipes. Some of you might laugh right now, but I had no idea until a few years ago what a whoopie pie is. I could have sworn it’s a pie. Why would someone call a dessert whoopie pie if it’s not a pie.
The same goes for Boston cream pie. I’ve learned it’s actually a cake.
Or why red velvet is SO popular around Valentine’s day? I thought it’s a chocolate themed holiday.
And the list keeps going but I won’t bore you with it. Needless to say, I still have a lot of things to learn.
With Valentine’s day just around the corner, I thought it’s the perfect time to tackle a classic. Red Velvet whoopie pies with cream cheese frosting.
5 minutes later I was checking to see if my butter is softened enough to make these whoopie pies I found on Better Homes and Gardens. 30 minutes later I was waiting for my cookies to cool so I can sandwich them.
Of course, some never lasted around long enough to be sandwiched. Little bites of cake. They were the perfect red color, not too brownish like other red velvet desserts I’ve seen. The secret was probably the liquid red color (I used Dab-n-color Red from Wilton).
The moment I took a bite I fell in love. Soft pillowy cake-like cookies. Although the recipe calls for 1 teaspoon of vanilla and 2 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder, they don’t taste like a vanilla or a chocolate cake. It’s different, but in a delicious way.
Once you sandwich them with smooth sweet cream cheese sandwich you’re in heaven. Think layer cake goodness but in a 3 bite-size cookie. AH-mazing!
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Sending love your way,
Roxana
Hi Reel,
The woopie pie batter is very similar with the cake batter, quite sticky but still holds it’s shape. As I mentioned in my post I used a cookie spoon which made scooping them on the baking sheet easier, but if you try a regular spoon it’s a little harder and definitely they’ll have different shapes. I wonder why yours turned out like a brick …
You can sandwich the woopie pies with your favorite buttercream or even cream cheese frosting.
Roxana
Hi Pamela,
You can try with the paste food coloring, just can’t say how much to add to get the red color, definitely NOT 2 tablespoons like I did.
Hi Susan,
you can make the whoopie pies with any size scoop. Just make sure you decrease the baking time so you don’t end up with burned pies 🙂 Please come back and let me know what size scoop you used and how the turned out.
Happy baking,
Roxana
Your first time? Seriously? They look absolutely perfect! Even more importantly, they look delicious. I find that it’s rare that a cookie recipe makes as many as they say it will, which is a bummer.
I’m obsessed with anything involving red velvet and these whoopie pies are stunning! Can’t wait to make them 🙂
Congrats on your first beautiful whoopie pie recipe- you knocked it out of the park! Love the bold, fabulous red colour!! (I can never achieve that on my red velvet recipes.)
I’ve made whoopie pies before and they didn’t turn out this pretty!
This is just some classic goodness going on here Roxana. I love whoopie pies. I never ate them much as a kid, but as an adult….I can’t get enough! Red velvet is always my first choice! These look fabulous!
Ha, the Boston Cream Pie thing gets me every time! These are gorgeous Roxana!
Roxana – don’t feel bad – I did not know what a whoopie pie was until several years ago. Yours by the way are simply perfect! Love the red velvet spin!
Roxana these are really gorgeous. Your red is bang on. Love them so much I think you should ship me a dozen. Or two dozen. Okay, let’s round it up to three dozen. xx
Love these, they are so cute!!
You are born to be a baker, Roxana. These whoopie pies look so pretty.
These are the prettiest whoopie pies, Roxana! I can just imagine how tender and delicious they are. Thanks for the link love! 🙂
I love red velvet but find that it’s hard to get juuuuuust right. These whoopie pies are stunning – that red colour really pops. I can’t believe it only took you thirty minutes until you were able to frost them. I must be the slowest person in the kitchen ever, lol.
Ok, I just need the marshmallow creme and cream cheese! Totally trying these!
Great Valentine’s Day treat – great of you to step out of your comfort zone!
These look so pretty for Valentine’s day! Look like they will just melt in your mouth 🙂
Those are gorgeous! It is funny how whoopie pies aren’t pie and boston cream pie is a cake! I can’t believe it is your first time making whoopie pies…they look perfect!!! Love the bright red color!
These are the ultimate Valentine’s Day treat!!! So tempting and delicious!!!
Roxana-these are gorgeous-I just love the bright red color;-)
OMG! I just want to take a big bite. So soft it looks and shaped to perfection as well.
Oh my goodness – your whoopie pies look like perfection! I really need to make these soon for my family – they love love love love red velvet!
What a cheerful, festive and gorgeous treat! Can you believe I have never made whoppie pies? VDay is a perfect reason to make my first batch!
It looks so pretty, I can only imagine how good it tastes.
They looks like macarrons. They seem difficult to do, but yours are quite pretty and they seem delicious!!!
Ha! Ha! I didn’t know what whoopie pies were either until a couple of years back. To this day, I still have to snicker every time I hear the name because visions of whoopee cushions always pop into my head. But there is nothing whoopee cushion-like about these beauties. They look absolutely decadent. Perfect for V day.
These look so delicious- perfect for Valentines!
Yummm!!! I live in Maine, so I’m pretty much obligated to liking whoopie pies, but these definitely look like something I’m going to have to make soon 😀