Soft, fluffy red velvet cookies made with a hint of Nutella, and pressed around a smooth cream cheese frosting.
Author: Katie of Veggie and the Beast
Recipe type: Dessert, Cookie, Valentine's Day
Serves: 18
Ingredients
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
¾ cup (1.5 sticks) unsalted butter, melted
½ cup greek yogurt
2 large eggs
1½ teaspoons apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons red food coloring
2¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
⅛ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ cup Nutella
Cream cheese frosting
1 stick butter, softened
8-ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla
16-ounces powdered sugar
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375.
Sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
In another bowl, mix together all the wet ingredients: melted butter, Greek yogurt, eggs, apple cider vinegar, and vanilla.
Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, mixing fully after each addition.
Heat the Nutella in the microwave for about 10 seconds, just so it's slightly warm, and then gently mix it to the batter.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper, and scoop on large tablespoons of batter. Spray the back of a spoon with cooking spray and smooth out the top of each mound of batter.
Bake for 8-10 minutes. Allow to cool completely.
While the cookies are cooling, make the frosting filling. Mix together the room-temperature cream cheese and the butter (also softened), then add the vanilla. Gradually add the powdered sugar.
Spoon a heaping tablespoon of frosting on the bottom (flattest) side of one cookie, and sandwich the frosting with another cookie on top (again, flattest side touches the frosting). Store in an air-tight tupperware in the fridge.