My weird looking 'Red Velvet' Whoopie Pies
Sometimes I'm just dumb. Well... I'm not dumb but I do dumb things. For example, setting things on the edge of the counter. Like running to work but forgetting my bra so that when I get there, all hot and sweaty, I have to wear my sports bra... gross. Like sending a government envelope back to the government thinking that I didn't have to add postage because there was this thing written where the stamp was supposed to be. I didn't read the thing and it happened to say 'place correct postage here'. Dumb.
Well, I did something dumb yesterday.
Kid #1 asked for red velvet whoopie pies. I said yes. Now keep in mind that Mother's Day was the day before. Keep in mind that I had just been travelling with 65 gr 5 and 6 boys for the weekend. Keep in mind that my mind was kinda fuzzy and I'd been working all day. I quickly found a recipe on the net. I skimmed the recipe... barely. I pulled out ingredients. I saw sour cream sitting in the fridge. I grabbed said sour cream. I thought, 'this sour cream would go well in the whoopie pies - I could use this instead of buttermilk' (dumb). I put the sour cream with the rest of the ingredients.
I put together the ingredients and did my thing. I really did my thing... I never checked the recipe again. Let's just talk for a minute about what I changed or didn't bother with at all:
1. Didn't check about whether to mix together the flour/cocoa/baking powder. Why check, all recipes are the same... right.
2. Didn't bother to precisely measure the butter.
3. Didn't use buttermilk, added sour cream instead... still needed to add milk.
4. Didn't check for an oven temperature or how long to bake the cookies.
5. Didn't have liquid food colouring, used paste instead and didn't check the recipe about when to add the colouring.
How did all this turn out?
Mediocre... at best. I was thoroughly disgusted truth be told. My kids are still eating them but damn... they suck.
For the record, sour cream is not interchangeable with milk or buttermilk.
For the record, food colouring doesn't mix well if the butter isn't wet enough.
For the record, when you are tired sometimes you just do dumb things.
For the record, today I bought a whoopie pie recipe book and will try this again the right way.
I'm giving you the recipe as I saw it and then telling you what I did to screw it up.
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
makes 16 or so icky cookies
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tbsp. cocoa powder
½ tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. salt
8 tbsp. unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup light brown sugar, packed (used muscovado... that's all I had)
1 large egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
½ cup buttermilk, at room temperature (use 1/2 cup sour cream... then add another 1/2 cup milk)
1 oz. red food coloring
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. (my recipe)
Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt in a bowl and set aside.
Using another bowl cream together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add in the egg and the vanilla.
Add in the flour mixture and mix that until it seems mixed in. Add in the sour cream. Mix and realise that this is turning out like bread dough... add in the milk.
By this time the batter will be pasty and gross but loose enough that you can add the food colouring (even though you should probably have added the food colouring to the milk and done things that way. Try to mix in the food colouring and realise that using paste isn't the same and won't mix properly. Think that maybe it will look kinda cool that you've got 'marble' whoopie pies. Realise that marble whoopies pies kinda suck.
Drop the pastry grossness on a lined cookie sheet by tablespoons. Bake for about 10 - 11 minutes.
Once they all cool throw some cream cheese icing on the underside of one and sandwich together with another until they're all done.
Give them to kids... they don't care if they're gross... buy a recipe book that has a proper recipe.
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- Wanda Thorne
- St Michael's Choir School is celebrating it's 75th anniversary year of service to St Michael's Cathedral. Part of the school celebration is a trip to Italy where our boys from Grades 5 - 12 will be performing and celebrating Mass. This blog will be chronicling our adventures. Wanda Thorne is the Vocal Coach at St Michael's Choir School. Gerard Lewis is the Grade 7/8 Homeroom teacher at the Choir School.
About Me
- Wanda Thorne
- St Michael's Choir School is celebrating it's 75th anniversary year of service to St Michael's Cathedral. Part of the school celebration is a trip to Italy where our boys from Grades 5 - 12 will be performing and celebrating Mass. This blog will be chronicling our adventures. Wanda Thorne is the Vocal Coach at St Michael's Choir School. Gerard Lewis is the Grade 7/8 Homeroom teacher at the Choir School.
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