Whoopies
Red velvet whoopie pies filled with a creamy marshmallow cream cheese filling.
⏱️ Prep: 45 min🍳 Cook: 7 min🍽️ Makes 30
Ingredients
| 2 tablespoons | 30 ml | unsweetened cocoa powder |
| 1 ounce | 28 g | red food coloring (one bottle - or see tips) |
| 2 tablespoons | 30 ml | water |
| 1/2 cup | 120 ml | canola or vegetable oil |
| 1 1/2 cups | 360 ml | granulated white sugar |
| 2 | large eggs | |
| 1 cup | 240 ml | buttermilk |
| 1 teaspoon | 5 ml | salt |
| 1 teaspoon | 5 ml | vanilla extract |
| 3 1/2 cups | 840 ml | cake flour |
| 1 tablespoon | 15 ml | white vinegar |
| 1 1/2 teaspoons | 7.5 ml | baking soda |
| 170 g | cream cheese, at room temperature (3/4 of an 8-ounce package) | |
| 1/2 cup | 120 ml | butter, at room temperature (1 stick) |
| 1/2 jar | marshmallow crème (about 1 cup) | |
| 1 pound | 455 g | powdered sugar (1 box) |
| 1 teaspoon | 5 ml | vanilla extract |
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets, or line with parchment paper.
- In a small bowl, combine cocoa powder, food color and water. Mix to combine; set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together oil, sugar and eggs. Add in buttermilk, salt, vanilla extract and food color mixture. Whisk to combine.
- Stir in flour, just until combined.
- In a small bowl, dissolve baking soda in the vinegar; pour into the batter and stir to combine.
- Spoon carefully onto prepared cookie sheets, careful to make sure that they are as round as possible. They'll spread a little bit so just spoon about a Tablespoon for each.
- Bake for about 6 to 7 minutes, until they're set and no longer sticky or soft. Let cool before filling.
- Beat cream cheese, butter and marshmallow crème together until smooth. Add in powdered sugar and vanilla. Spread a Tablespoon or so onto the bottom side of a pie, then top with the bottom side of another pie. Store in the refrigerator, keeping pies in a single layer. Cover with plastic wrap to keep fresh. Tips: I prefer to use gel or paste coloring, which doesn't impart the "food color" flavoring to your baked good. If you use gel or paste, add about a teaspoon of it to the cocoa, then add 1/4 cup of water (instead of 2 tablespoons) and mix together. Re-evaluate the color of the batter after step 4 - if you'd like it to be a deeper hue of red, add a few more drops of red. If you have one, use a Tablespoon scoop (like a little ice cream scoop) to place the batter on the cookie sheets.