Recipe courtesy of Johnnie Gabriel

Cousin Jonnie's Red Velvet Whoopee Pies

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 24 sandwich cookies
  • Total: 1 hr 10 min
  • Prep: 25 min
  • Cook: 45 min
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Ingredients

Pies:

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 cups canola oil

1 teaspoon white vinegar

1 (1-ounce) bottle red food coloring

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 cup buttermilk

Filling:

5 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1 cup milk

1 cup sugar

8 tablespoons butter (1 stick), softened

1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening (recommended: Crisco)

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

  1. Pies:
  2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease 2 cookie sheets. Sift the flour, baking soda, and cocoa together in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, combine the oil, vinegar, food coloring, and vanilla.
  3. Using an electric mixer, beat the sugar and eggs together in a large bowl until they turn pale and double in volume. Add the oil mixture and beat to combine. Add the flour mixture and buttermilk alternately in 5 small additions, starting and ending with the flour.
  4. Drop the batter by teaspoons onto the baking sheets, allowing 1-inch between drops, as the cookies will spread. You'll be making 48 cookies. Bake until the cookies are firm but not crisp, about 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer immediately to racks to cool.
  5. Filling:
  6. Put the flour into a medium saucepan and slowly add the milk, whisking until smooth. Set over medium heat and cook, stirring constantly with a whisk, until very thick, about 3 minutes. Remove the flour mixture from the heat and allow it to cool completely.
  7. Cream the sugar, butter, shortening, and vanilla in a large bowl with an electric mixer. Add the cooled flour mixture and whip until fluffy. Spread some filling onto 1 cookie and top it with another to make a sandwich. Repeat with the remaining cookies and filling. Cover the filled whoopee pies with plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

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Christine K.

Hubby wanted a marshmallow filling, so I used the recipe on kingarthurflour.com.<br /><br />Liquid red food color substitute: make a paste of 2 Tbsp cocoa + 2 Tbsp boiling water. Add to the batter after the eggs, then add 1 Tbsp Wilton red gel food color "without taste."<br /><br />For successful traditional red velvet cake frosting:<br />Use 1 cup of whole milk (whole milk substitutions: 3/4 cup skim or 2% milk + 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream; or 1/3 cup half-and-half + 2/3 cup 2% or skim milk). <br /><br />Whisk the flour and milk until the mixture pulls away from the sides of the pan. Cover flour mixture with Saran touching the surface to prevent a skin from forming. I chill this "pudding" overnight.<br /><br />Whisk 1 cup butter until it is almost liquid, 2-3 min.. Add 1 cup sugar slowly then whisk at high speed at least 5 min to dissolve the sugar, add the vanilla. Add pudding by tablespoons; completely mix first portion before adding the next. Whisk at high speed 4-5 min until very light and fluffy like whipped cream.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

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